I have stolen loads of pretty pictures from others website. Not so much from other people’s blogs though. But I also want to be a serious blogger. Wait, I am a serious blogger. Aren’t I? I blog every day. Surely that’s serious.

How do I qualify as serious blogger? Do I not qualify as serious blogger if it’s too much for me and not enough for other people? I will confess that it’s pretty f**king rad when people follow you and comment and stuff. And then I get hungry and I want more people to follow me and comment and stuff.

I love what I love though and hate what I hate. Am I too honest? Too emotional? Too serious sometimes? What if people don’t like me? Aaaaaaahhhh, identity crisis!

Great post, CTG! Look how much you just got me thinking about me and my Stuff. BTW, I think you’re like totally a real blogger. You are like my blog hero.

xxMEJ (Miss Emma Jude)

Great job so far.

I have a simple question, which I don’t want you to take the wrong way please.

Do you feel that you can call yourself a professional after only blogging for 4months? (13 Feb -> 23 Jun)? The only reason I’m asking is because I’ve been blogging since 1997, have won awards, and blah blah blah and I only, now, call myself a professional. I feel that I’m in a place to give advice to aspiring bloggers, but that’s because of all my years of experience, enough time has passed for the mistakes to have been made and corrected.

Lastly, “Get yourself a modelling coach. Get yourself a dietician. Get yourself a personal trainer”, are things you say that “chicks” need to get to be professional bloggers, or have I missed something? :)

Again, I’m merely asking these questions out of interest, and the possibility of creating a discussion, I’m not here to start a flame war at all! Besides, you seem like the kind of “chick” who’ll take a little pinch ;)

Looking forward to hearing your response.

ALEX. YOU. ROCK. Love love love this article. And your comments. Knew you reminded me of me! By the way, by now I’ve sampled them all – best is Myatt and Cassis. EDMxxx

Chris vs Alex: Best 2 comments I have ever read on a blog. Love it guys ;)

Bwahahaha.

“The only reason I’m asking is because I’ve been blogging since 1997, have won awards, and blah blah blah and I only, now, call myself a professional. I feel that I’m in a place to give advice to aspiring bloggers, but that’s because of all my years of experience”

Was he actually being serious?

@Chris – your blog blows. It has no editorial direction and the design looks like you’ve left it in place from when you started in ‘97.

Yes, you have won numerous Tech blog awards – god knows how seeing as you write about ANYTHING on the web just to get search traffic from Google. Your blog is hardly tech related. Nice one “SEO-GURU”

Douche.

ps. Yes, I didn’t link my user because I don’t have a blog.

This is what blogging is all about – to watch an intelligent person hook an unsuspecting,humourless,idiot into spouting forth about the merits of inward focus and inner flaws!!!! bwahahahaha – well done ctg – you rock chick!

Super post there CTG. @mikesharman and I were talking about personal branding this week, and how well you’ve done to reinvent the CTG identity. So much so that we couldn’t remember what your blog was called before 13 Feb ;)

Seems some people dont know the real CTG yet though. Not too Ayoba of them!

Hello my darlings, yes, you are lucky to hear from Mummy, as she never gets involved as she is too busy having a cocktail. But something in this thread of posts has shocked me to my core. And that is the obvious tension and anxiety caused by the lack of wine imbibed.

Chris and Drew my darlings, you must unbutton those very tight collars my darlings, consider spending the day in a sari so that the winds of peace may stir the very thigh hairs of your soul. You may find then that, on a river of La Capra, you float towards internal serenity.

Chris my darling, tell Aunty Frances, what makes a professional blogger? I have been drinking for many, many years, have won several awards and in fact have my own single-issue political party DAFA (Drinking After Five Alliance) with Featonby, a great drinker himself, and am generally very highly thought of as a drinker of great talent and skill. Am I then a professional drinker? Oh I do hope so.

Drew my darling, why are you so angry? What made you cross-patch sweetie darling? It’s just a silly little post about things like dreams and cupcakes. Do these things anger you Drew? Cupcakes? Let us talk about this over wine.

Oh en Ag Tannie Bev my sweetie, if you don’t like the blog, please, just don’t linger long enough to leave a comment darling!

That’s all from Frances for now cherubs..and remember, live in the Spirit…gin or vodka. It’s your choice xx

Dude, these comments have made my day!

I think people should really do a little research into things before opening their mouths and should seriously…stop taking things so seriously.

*Group hug*

It takes a lot to get me out of the room where CTG keeps me. Because I refused to taste wines for CTG dressed in lingerie whilst gobbling macaroons, I was instead installed in a wendy-house at the bottom of Cape Town Girl’s Gardens Estate. Here I spend my hours tasting thousands of wines to make sure that only the most appropriate vinous creations touch the lips of CTG.

So it will be obvious that I do not have much time to respond to humourless cretins that inhabit comment sections.

But sometimes the urge is just too strong.

Dear Chris, do you not realise that CTG is also an award winning blogger? She is a “Multiple Winner of the Grand Black Loerie Eagle Canned Lion Cleo Prix Award for Creative Use of Blogging in the Outdoor Direct Blog Category”

Beat that tough guy.

Drew you are right. I once tried to “turn towards [my]self and focus inwards”. I fucking clicked my neck and had to visit a chiropractor for six months. Very self-destructive indeed.
Your advice, I assume, would be to turn away from oneself and focus outwards? Have you got an illustrated guide on how to do that? I have been trying for about half an hour and all I have achieved is spinning very quickly on my office chair and feeling quite dizzy.

Bev, it is not responsible interwebz behaviour to click on strange links. The time that was stolen from you as you read this post was deserved. I hope you never get it back

Right. I’m back off to the wendy-house CTG is shouting for Chardonnay.

PS

Dear Miss Sauvage, we must do lunch.

“Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the interwebs I feel like I can’t take it, like my heart’s going to cave in.” ~ American Beauty

Some good stuff. I imagined Mickey Rourke or Al Pacino (Scarface voice) reading it aloud, made it even funnier.

oh what a fracus!

nothing like a bitch slap on a friday arvie – it’s like being in primary school all over again.

PS – Dear FS – it’s always Gin o’clock at my house – does this meet DAFA membership requirements?

Bless. Hook-line-sinker.

Would you like a big stick with that dead horse you’re flogging?

Alex,

The thing that never ceases to amaze me about Chris-I’m-A-Fucking-Rockstar-Mills is that he seems *absolutely* ignorant of his own douchbaggery. I want so desperately, for the sake of humanity, to believe that he’s just a really persistent troll, but all the evidence suggests otherwise.

j.

This is a great article, balances perfect sense with a sense of humour. I love it.

This post makes for an interesting read, just what I needed to smile on this suuper hot day in the mother city :)
Nice CTG