(noun): Contemplation of one's navel as part of a mystical exercise.
Or, alternately: A blog post about blogging.
Permit me to retroactively introduce myself. I'm the new intern/sycophant here at CL this fall. I even have my own cubicle! (Out in the hallway, where the paid staffers mock me at every turn.) Before this, I spent about seven or so years learning my craft (fucking around in various writing classes, usually half-drunk), only to discover that it's now all but obsolete — at least in the way I'm accustomed to, thanks in part to an ominous entity known as the "blogosphere".
This article appears in Sep 3-9, 2008.