I've been out discovering new blogs lately doing longish searches through arcane machines and software to uncover a few gems. In a way I appreciate the long essay blog the best, one I sometimes employ myself even though it in some ways violates the form of the blog, which has traditionally (a tradition lasting about five minutes) have been short, punchy posts written often and regularly. I suppose it depends on how interesting the writer is. There are a number of blogs that I read that I sort of grunt and skip when they write long pieces because they're better about news than ideas, and others where the once a week long essay post seems hardly enough.

Here's a new blog I've become enamored by called The Sesquipedalist (if you want to look up the definition, it means simply a person who uses a whole lot of syllables), a blogger that writes wonderfully long essays on many older articles and trends that seem totally contemporary, even if they happened thirty years ago. Like his(her?) essay this week on Marshall McLuhan, from whence my headline comes.

Check out The Sesquipedalist, one of the smartest blogs I think I've ever had the luck to come across.