The Daily News is a harsh mistress

That Josh Kleinbaum, he who heads up the Daily News' online onslaught, is a harsh taskmaster. Here's what he's cooked up for us: If you write a Daily News blog, and you're one of the last five people to post a blog entry, your blog and entry will appear near the top of the Dailynews.com home page, beckoning thousands of Web surfers to your own little corner of blogginess.

But once five more Daily News bloggers do their thing, you're off the list. It's a perfect way to get us to post, and post often. We need our fix of Dailynews.com fame -- and the only way to do it is to keep on posting. We can't dip below 50 MPH, or like in "Speed," the bus will blow up (or more likely, a Toyota Camry will run into it). It's like the sourdough starter in Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential," which must be continuously replenished with (sugar?) to stay alive, prompting the absent baker to call the restaurant and yell loudly through the phone, "Feed the Bitch. Feed the Bitch, or she'll die!"
Consider her fed.

Now I will revel in my hour or so of reflected glory, high atop the blogroll on dailynews.com, and wait for Greg Hernandez, Scott Wolf and David Kronke to write me out.