Ellie's Blog

"Don't Bash Me on Your Blog. My Mom Googles Me."

That's what my uncle, Eugene Mirman, said at his comedy show in Boston last night. It's funny because it's true - his mom definitely does. She may even find this post and then my new blog will be revealed to the rest of my family. It's especially funny if you know his mom, and imagine her sitting at the computer typing his name into Google every day to find those Eugene-bashers and Eugene-lovers.

The image is definitely strange to me - but not as strange as the image of my dad on YouTube, which I have reluctantly accepted as a reality.

What I realize is that I'm partly still of the mentality that doesn't quite get how huge the blogosphere and all these other internet marketing things have gotten. But if my step-grandmother is on Google every day and my dad is the one who sends me the most YouTube videos, well, this stuff is pretty big.