behind AotW

Documenting the upmty-ump trillionth blog–created by Ms. Myrna Hummel (observing on stale pancake mix), noting the blog-prominence of cats, and worrying about an approaching critical-mass-of-blogs crisis, cartoonist Richard Thompson has nailed it.

As a garrulous drone I can personally validate the accuracy of both his analysis and the technically stunning blog map, seen here.

The illustration and accompanying text are in today’s Washington Post in Richard’s Poor Almanack (pg. C3), and will be online soon, I would think, at the WaPo.com comics page.