All Quiet, Except This Blog

All’s quiet on the Southern front (and rear) and my brain is fairly inactive, too. Every good article I have written at present is not finished or else is being saved for the next overdue issue of Southern Exposure. These are my excuses for having no particular subject for the blog today. Maybe, too, I’m just all blogged out.

Of course, this preening blog itself is a blog subject. I’ve piddled away a lot of time lately on imbedding repeating images, colored bars, links, lists, and such. I guess I’m too close to it, for I can’t tell at all if this home beautification is starting to have the opposite effect and create a mere wealth of clutter. Have I gone too far, are there now too many lace doilies and fripperies? Could be. The only way I’d know is if some of my readers told me so.

I completed my “22 Pretty Good Ones”, which is a list of some of the “better” previous posts. Maybe I’ll let it shrink to 20 or less later. Right now I wanted a last-gasp chance for all of these to be read. There’s always the “Archives”, but I’ve never been sure how many people fool with those. They probably don’t appeal very much to the modern sense of Brevity and Quickness that most people prefer. I figure people have to Really Love You to dig through your Archives—like a fan digging through a rock star’s garbage!—and I don’t think I feel quite that loved yet. So, having noticed other people’s “Past Posts”, “Previous Posts”, “Highlights”, and so on, I figured that kind of thing might work for me, too. Of course, the post links are just sitting there like lumps of clay, and I have no idea if anyone has been drawn to them or clicked on them. The amount of Love in the air is about the same as it was before, and there’s no proof or disproof of anything.

Well, I don’t care—The Rat Squeaks is still not as complicated as Southern Exposure, although it’s certainly hungrier and therefore requires the most time. Hopefully, I’m through for a while with tinkering with the lists, colors, fonts, appearances, and images on The Rat Squeaks.

Oh, there is one last thing, I guess. I keep wondering about my links lists. I started out being my snobby self and establishing the “Intelligent Blogs” list and didn’t expect it to ever become very long. But as time goes by I notice there’s about 20 other blogs I read regularly and I am temped to add them. I wonder whether I’d add them to the existing list or make another list? What would I call the new list? I guess I shouldn’t have started out being so supercilious—if I hadn’t, I wouldn’t be having this stupid argument with myself now.

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