Manolo’s Shoe Blog

Manolo says, ayyyyyyy!

The Manolo’s blogs crashed!

Ah, but it is all better now, temporarily.

Apparently the Manolo’s blogs are growing so quickly that they have outgrown the Manolo’s hosting company, and now the Manolo needs to look for the new “VPS hosting”.

If you know of the good company please let the Manolo know as soon as possible so that he can make his decision, as he must complete the move by the end of the month.

P.S. Please forgive the Manolo for having to speak of such mundane matters. This sudden development has unnerved him greatly.

Manolo says, the Manolo reminds you that the Manolo is running the contest Build the Outfit in his new Super Fantastic Forums. The Manolo gives you the shoes, and you describe the perfect outfit with which to wear them.

On Friday afternoon the Manolo will pick one of the entries at random and award that person the $100 gift certificate from Zappos. Of the course, there is the catch, you can only enter by registering for the Manolo’s Forums and posting your entry in that place.

The Manolo has to say that he has been quite impressed with the quality of the entries thus far, but go there now and see for yourself.

Manolo says, finally we have arrived at the official launch date for the Manolo’s new work, The Consolation of the Shoes, and in honor of this the Manolo has prepared two new websites to entertain and amuse his many internet friends.

Firstly, allow the Manolo to present to you the Official Consolation of the Shoes website! Here you will find the full color versions of the illustrations contained in the Manolo’s new work, along with other things which may entertain and/or enlighten you.

Secondly, allow the Manolo to present to you the brand new, the Manolo’s Super Fantastic Forums, the place where we may carry on our internet discussions in greater detail. Here we may talk about the shoes and the celebrities and the fashion until we are finally sated by the surfeit of chatter. Hurry! Be among the first to sign up and participate!

Manolo says, according to the Self Made Minds Website the Manolo’s humble shoe blog is currently the 44th most subscribed to blog “feed” on the internets.

As you may see in the Feedburner counter above, as of today the Manolo has somewhere over 9300 subscribers.

Naturally the Manolo must profusely thank all of his many, many internet friends who have liked the Manolo’s Shoe Blog well enough to include it in their RSS blog readers. You are indeed most super fantastic!

Also, many thanks to the peoples at the Bloglines, who have kindly included the Manolo’s Shoe Blog in their list of favorites.

Manolo says, the Manolo gently reminds you that his new work, The Consolation of the Shoes will soon be sent, perhaps by the end of this week!

Now is the chance to pre-order this most amusing and edifying work.

Manolo says, the Manolo reminds you that his new work, The Consolation of the Shoes will soon be sent out. Now is the chance to pre-order this amusing piece of writing.

Manolo says, only one more week until the Manolo’s latest work, The Consolation of the Shoes appears in print.

Here is the description of the Manolo and this work from the website of the New Pamphleteers.

How does one explain Manolo the Shoeblogger to someone who’s never visited his wildly popular internet site? Well, take two parts high-class shoe fetishist, one part Ricky Ricardo, and one part Jacques Barzun, a dash of Ignatius J. Reilly, shake vigorously and decant liberally, and you’ve got Manolo the Shoeblogger.

Since first appearing in October, 2004, his website, Manolo’s Shoe Blog, has become one of the best read fashion sites on the internet, and the Manolo himself has been praised by authorities as various as the Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Fortune, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, and the master shoe designer himself, Manolo Blahnik, for his eccentric, erudite, and at times outrageous sense of humor, and for his extensive knowledge of shoes and fashion.

Now, in The Consolation of the Shoes, the Manolo reveals yet another side of himself, recounting a late night visitation from a mysterious woman, a visitation that sends the young Manolo on a quest to find the perfect pair of shoes. Along the way he wrestles with a series of footwear-based teleological and eschatological problems culminating in a transcendent moment of pure shoe joy. Throughout the Manolo remains his usual unusual self, full of cockeyed aphorisms, oddball observations, and trenchant social and cultural commentary, all of it both hilarious and very intelligent.

Find out what the readers of Manolo’s Shoe Blog have long known, that fashion and philosophy are not incompatible, and that Manolo the Shoeblogger is one of the funniest and smartest people you’ll read this year.

Ayyyyy! Such fulsome praise is enough to make the Manolo blush.

Manolo says, the Manolo has written the short article about how to be the good blogger for the online advertising company Chitika. Here is the short sample.

You may think, Mr. Arturo G. Bloggerman, that your grand mission is to enlighten the unwashed masses, to whom you declaim the unpleasant truth from your exalted perch at declaimingloudly.blogspot.com. But in the point of fact, if the unwashed masses do not find your loud declamations entertaining they will quickly move down the street to the Cuteoverload to look at the pictures of the squirrel babies.

So, what must you do to compete with the squirrel babies?

First learn to write the good, lively, entertaining prose, and then, second, do not be afraid of giving your readers the odd combination of the topics, or the peculiar view of the world, or the different way of approaching your subject. Do not be afraid to be seen as different, or even eccentric. Indeed, to be eccentric in this crowded market is the strength.

You should perhaps go read the rest.

Manolo says, order now.