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Blogging Has Officially Jumped the Shark

Back in the Archie Goes Goth entry, I wrote “It’s a little-known fact that your subculture is over the minute it becomes a plot point in an Archie comic.”

I declare that blogging has jumped the shark, but not because Reggie now has a MySpace page:

Blogging has jumped the shark because it’s been referenced in the one comic that is even more blandly mainstream than Archie: it’s The Family Circus. Here’s a photograph of the comic that appeared on Wednesday:

Joey deVilla

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  • My goodness! Betty appears to be using a Tandy 1000SX to surf the web there. I had no idea they had such longevity.

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