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The dreaded manic Monday doesn’t swallow up just your friends (prompting hundreds of similar, contrived facebook status updates, no doubt.)

Apparently the shotgun blues swallow up the best of us on the occasional Monday, leaving zero time for anything but work, work, logistical nightmares, and work.

• Regardless, we barely had time tonight to update our lame Twitter account ponder all of life’s mysteries on the elliptical.
• Instead, we applaud Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio, now of NBC, whom the Peacock no doubt hired because of his adherence to clear journalistic standards espoused by Ken Rosenthal last week. Ahem, on PFT’s RUMOR MILL.
• Don’t get me wrong, PFT is cool.  And Deadspin nicely sums up the latest, but not last, blogger to go high-profile. And our last follow-up to Bloggers vs. Old Media ’09 is a folo itself, a column by the Philly Inquirer‘s sage John Gonzalez, answering questions from readers. (Like bloggers do in comments, I guess.):
  

… Everyone links to everyone’s stuff. Even if I hadn’t written about the Midwest Sports Fans post, there were other Web sites/blogs that wrote about it. Hugging Harold Reynolds linked to it and put it on Twitter. The MSF post was already out there, and people were talking about it long before I came along.

… The lines have blurred between old school media and bloggers. That’s why I wrote that all of us – from the biggest traditional media outlets to the smallest blogs – need to be really careful what we say or write because the spotlight shines on everyone now …

… I’ll cop to joining the conversation and even making it bigger, but I didn’t create the controversy. I don’t have that much power. Someone said I “spread the blog virus.” Truth is, we were already infected.

• Oh, snap, he had to save us! The blog post was linked on Twitter! SOMEBODY STOP THESE STRAW MEN ON TWITTER! THEY WILL DESTROY US ALL AND TAKE MY EXPENSE ACCOUNT!
• If acting superior to a legion of imitators, doesn’t some sort of conventional wisdom about not dragging yourself into the muck apply? Quite honestly, if Rosenthal and Gonzalez are so freaking professional, isn’t this slummy engagement with us bloggers akin to a heart surgeon arguing with, say, me, during a mortality conference? I mean, I’ve seen Scrubs.
• And finally (h/t to The Big Lead), with Monday’s hectic activity leading up to our imminent relocation, sometimes we wonder if we’re going to the right place. Thankfully, US News & World Report has suggestions, (Uh, Auburn? No.). Luckily they also offer the chance to pick my own top place to live. Presented right here, no less:

Hmmm.

As they would say (Er, tweet) on Twitter: Whatevs.