01.19.2006
Democracy at Work
Just now, I accidentally read a chunk of this weblog from two years ago and was struck by the idea that although my sanity level seems to be about the same,* my writing was both better and more comprehensive. As a writer, I am devolving. Soon, like the character in Misery, whose typewriter keys quit one by one as a madwoman cut off his feet, I will be nearly unintelligible.** Cases can be made that I am either lacking in practice, or that I have run aground and have nothing more to say.
So, anyway, show of hands. Who thinks I need to write here more often?
Okay. Hmm.
And who thinks I need to give into inertia and call it quits?
Uh huh. Interesting.
And who thinks that Servilia of the Junii was barking mad when she invoked the gods of the inferno to curse Caesar and Atia, the first for ending their affair and the second for engineering it?
I thought so.
* Still running on empty.
** Yes, yes, just like a Republican.
posted by
David at 10:00 AM
More - give us more!!! We miss you, and I couldn't bear not to hear about Goblin. Alternatively, you could get Crumblord to opine more often too.
Um, write more, bitch. That's an order. I'll tell you when you're boring, k?
posted by:
sMush on 01.19.2006 at 10:41 AM
Nearly?
Just kidding.
Please don't call it quits. Please, please, please. Your blog is one of the few I can stand to read.
Hey, I'll even de-lurk to toss you one of those compliment fish you're looking for. I dig your blog.
posted by:
Deana on 01.19.2006 at 11:31 AM
I would miss your blogging, but, would understand the necessity, as your business does come first.
Give it some thought, and let us know.
posted by:
Hanuman on 01.19.2006 at 12:44 PM
It's hard to keep a blog going. Sometimes you just want to tell people that nothing is any of their business.
posted by:
Cara on 01.19.2006 at 2:34 PM
Also, I enjoy reading your blog and would be pleased if you continued it.
posted by:
Cara on 01.19.2006 at 2:38 PM
Even as sporadic as it has become, I love your blog. It was one of my inspirations when I started my own. You have one of the few really original voices out there and it would be sad to see it selfishly reserved solely for people you actually love and care about.
And Servilia of the Junii is craftier than you give her credit for.
posted by:
David on 01.19.2006 at 5:18 PM
I agree with David. Your blog was one of the first I ever read and an inspiration to start my own.
I'd hate to see you go, but I understand it. Because I feel just the same way. I think the question you need to ask yourself is, "What am I getting out of my blog?"
posted by:
Karen on 01.19.2006 at 8:17 PM
Try to keep blogging dear. You would be much missed.
Now, to more serious matters. No I certainly don't think that Servilia was mad. I mean after all Ceasar ends up ever so dead and she has the immense pleasure of frightening Atia witless after the assasination. Admittedly her son also ends up ever so dead but spending your declining years as the pampered and much honoured house guest of Atticus can't have been all bad.
posted by: campbell on 01.20.2006 at 5:45 AM
Oh good heavens, I don't know what I did to inspire this love fest. I didn't even know that most of you people were still reading this site or even alive. Along with not blogging lately, I haven't been reading anyone else's. I didn't mean to manipulate you into saying nice things, I was just musing.
Broadsheet: While the Crumblord does not lack for opinions, it is often difficult to peel him away from his ever-changing obsessions.
Mush: *I* will tell *YOU* when I'm boring, got it?
Faustus: Thank you. My blog is one of the few I can stand to write.
Deana: And now I shall bark like a seal. Thank you.
Hanuman: You're not one for jumping onto bandwagons, are you. :)
Cara: It's none of your business, but I appreciate it.
David: I certainly appreciate the compliment. I've only seen a few episodes so far, but Servilia of the Junii has fallen in my estimation. I just hope that she and Atia don't launch into a Classical version of "Dynasty."
Karen: I get the same thing out of my blog as I get out of everything else, a nagging sense of guilt.
Campbell: Don't give away too much, I'm only on episode five. Of course, I know how it all turned out two thousand years ago, but I'm still on the edge of my chair.
posted by:
David on 01.20.2006 at 8:37 AM
Oh! So you haven't set eyes on Atia's reconcilation gift? I nearly died laughing and then got depressed wondering why none of my acquaintances were so thoughtful.
posted by: campbell on 01.20.2006 at 12:26 PM
Y'all are dorks. And no, I'm not just jealous because I don't have HBO. Even if I had HBO, y'all'd still be dorks...
posted by:
jwer on 01.20.2006 at 3:47 PM
Campbell again: I have not, although I appreciate Atia's wit as a comic villainess.
Jwer: And you would be a dork who also had HBO, as opposed to a dork who doesn't.
posted by:
David on 01.21.2006 at 8:41 AM
Still loving your blog as much as ever...I tell my friends, "He's a young EB White. What a voice! You have to check out his blog." Keep on writing. You ought to do a book. I'm not kidding. Cheers--JS
posted by: Jo on 02.18.2006 at 3:33 PM
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