Funny blog from about a decade ago?
August 20, 2018 11:53 AM Subscribe
I used to love a blog that I think was called STORYTIME!
It was very funny, specific childhood stories, using a lot of (maybe all?) capital letters.
Anyone remember it? A few half-remembered details inside.
It was pretty anonymous but I believe it was written by a Canadian guy, maybe named Dave.
I think he lived near Ottawa or Aylmer Quebec- he was definitely English-speaking.
I think most of his stories were from when he was about 8-12, which was in the 1980s- early 1990s.
I think it was on Blogspot, with a plain white style template.
Maybe active around 2005-2007?
There was one little story where he described a project he did about cougars, including something like "What colour is a cougar? Is it brown? No. Is it golden? No. It is TAWNY."
Also stories about school trips, I think one about a tomato factory, and many goofy classroom shenanigans.
I think I remember him deciding to stop blogging, but the site stayed up for a while... maybe it's archived somewhere?
It was pretty anonymous but I believe it was written by a Canadian guy, maybe named Dave.
I think he lived near Ottawa or Aylmer Quebec- he was definitely English-speaking.
I think most of his stories were from when he was about 8-12, which was in the 1980s- early 1990s.
I think it was on Blogspot, with a plain white style template.
Maybe active around 2005-2007?
There was one little story where he described a project he did about cougars, including something like "What colour is a cougar? Is it brown? No. Is it golden? No. It is TAWNY."
Also stories about school trips, I think one about a tomato factory, and many goofy classroom shenanigans.
I think I remember him deciding to stop blogging, but the site stayed up for a while... maybe it's archived somewhere?
Best answer: It was originally posted as a thread to the VivaLaVinyl message board; here's a mirror of the whole thing in its original format.
Special bonus: eight lost stories rescued from a long-defunct Google Reader feed, from that time I tried helping Dave compile them into a book of some kind. See also his (normal caps) missives from living in China.
posted by Rhaomi at 1:13 PM on August 20, 2018 [8 favorites]
Special bonus: eight lost stories rescued from a long-defunct Google Reader feed, from that time I tried helping Dave compile them into a book of some kind. See also his (normal caps) missives from living in China.
posted by Rhaomi at 1:13 PM on August 20, 2018 [8 favorites]
Best answer: Oh, God, I remember these stories. SO GOOD!
posted by wenestvedt at 1:19 PM on August 20, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by wenestvedt at 1:19 PM on August 20, 2018 [1 favorite]
Best answer: thanks for asking this. i have occasionally thought about "what color is the cougar" over all these many years. so glad to see it again.
posted by iahtl at 5:57 PM on August 26, 2018
posted by iahtl at 5:57 PM on August 26, 2018
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