Sometimes I wonder if I've missed something...
...When I read everyone's else's blogs, which are full of deep, insightful (even if only attempted) reflections, or clever little blurbs, games, lists, etc.
My blog is full of crap. Which is okay, I think, as I also tend to be full of crap.
But call me old-fashioned and reserved, but I can rarely just vomit my feeling out for all to assess. Those who can have my admiration. However, I've never been fond of giving the game away during the first inning. It's too much like reading a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure (remember those? "What do you feed the giant?" And if you pick the wrong thing, he'll eat you. Hint: Pancakes is the wrong answer) and flipping to the back and seeing all the choices before going ahead.
And I like to think clues are there. My personality and weird little habits. My innumerable failings and weaknesses. There are so many.
And god forbid, what happens if I let everyone in at once? It will be chaos. The world will whirl around in a mess of confusion (really trying to avoid the Love & Rockets reference there). The sky will curdle and splinter. Trees will hover upside down, and everyone's clocks will hop off the walls and head down to the pub for a pint.
So it's nothing personal to you, dear Random Person Reading This -- it's just that once I let it out, there'll be no plugging it back up.
Right.
Back to knitting a scarf and watching Poltergeist.
Saturday night is party night at my house. Truly.
My blog is full of crap. Which is okay, I think, as I also tend to be full of crap.
But call me old-fashioned and reserved, but I can rarely just vomit my feeling out for all to assess. Those who can have my admiration. However, I've never been fond of giving the game away during the first inning. It's too much like reading a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure (remember those? "What do you feed the giant?" And if you pick the wrong thing, he'll eat you. Hint: Pancakes is the wrong answer) and flipping to the back and seeing all the choices before going ahead.
And I like to think clues are there. My personality and weird little habits. My innumerable failings and weaknesses. There are so many.
And god forbid, what happens if I let everyone in at once? It will be chaos. The world will whirl around in a mess of confusion (really trying to avoid the Love & Rockets reference there). The sky will curdle and splinter. Trees will hover upside down, and everyone's clocks will hop off the walls and head down to the pub for a pint.
So it's nothing personal to you, dear Random Person Reading This -- it's just that once I let it out, there'll be no plugging it back up.
Right.
Back to knitting a scarf and watching Poltergeist.
Saturday night is party night at my house. Truly.
posted by /hg | 1:17 a.m.
3 Comments:
look at it this way -- "fuck what anyone else thinks"
Meh, my vote is keep it all in one seething burning ball of rage.
I think your blog is an excellent example of communication. Most blogs tend to have a pointed purpose and are heavy on pious pontification. You like to lay it out there and let people take what they can use.
I think a blog should be shards of a persons life; Incomplete, yet reflective enough for someone to see themselves in.
Hmmm. "Pious pontification" -- doesn't that sounds like it should be the name of a pope?
And really, the seething ball of rage is usually so very helpful for things. I would certainly lose my edge if I had somewhere to expel the run-off...
It's fun making people cry with a few choice words.
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