I've had comments off thus far, but the other day, I shared the Barbra Streisand post in Google Reader, which shared it in FriendFeed which made it show up on my Facebook, where people actually commented on it. Ahhh, the modern world.

Anyway, I liked it… the high of people actually commenting on The Sweet Snob and not feeling like I'm not doing this thing in a vacuum.

So, I turned on actual commenting here. And to sweeten the deal, here's my offer. The first three people to comment and tell me your favorite Sweet Snob post so far can pick an album or film to get the Sweet Snob treatment.

Please offer a little context about the album or film you want reviewed like, why you love or hate it, or why it's the most amazing underrated electroclash progenitor of the 80's / most emotional Mahler symphony ever so that I have some starting point.

Note that I have to approve a comment by a specific person before it shows up, but I will do the first three comments submitted in the order they were submitted.  And… if you're not in the first three but I love your suggestion, I might do it anyway.

Ok, I'm sick of the sound of crickets around here.  Go.

I think I'm going to launch today.  What the hell.  If I'm doing all this writing, people might as well be reading it.

I've given a lot of thought about how to begin The Sweet Snob.  What album or movie or place could I start with?  It didn't seem to make sense to just dive in and pick something new.  I thought it might be better to start with some of the music, food and Seattle things that I like best.  Things timeworn in my heart, that I can explain my love or hate of in some great detail.  So, in a ceremonial way, I will now begin.

I'm the sweet snob.  I'm Daniel Talsky, and I've been writing a blog called the tinyblog since 2000.  I started writing a lot of album reviews on the tinyblog, and soon my reviews took over the identity of the whole site.

I realized I wanted to do something simpler, just reviews, and keep the tinyblog a place for my weird autobiographical stories.

I got inspiration one day that I could call it The Sweet Snob.  It came to me all at one time, the whole idea, the look and feel, everything.  I was so excited.  I thought of a couple other names but that was the main one.  The next day I floated the name by all my friends.  They all hated it.

I thought about it for awhile but then I realized I should do whatever I liked.

Why snob?

I am kind of a snob.  I don't like crappy movies.  I don't like mediocre albums.  I don't like lukewarm and cheaply made food.

Why sweet?

But… I'm not a jerk about it.  I like to point out what's good!  People don't need to read a bunch about what they shouldn't even bother to listen to.  I want to be a little guidebook, to the finer things that other people might not explore, or types of music or movies that they might not understand what's good about it until someone orients them.  That's what I want to do.

Not just be a snob, but a sweet snob.