This is me, this is how handsome I am. This is a blog where I just push a button or two and then I come through. It goes in here and it comes out there. Some of you may wish it had video and sound, but we already have TV, so I am not tempted. If I were broadcasting myself live, I would cuss more, not less, a thing that in many cases gets in the way of communication. Some of my audience would drop their jaws and drop me like a snake, I'm pretty sure. Why not, after all--no one can see them do it!
Sometimes I recall a few of the many bloggers who I dropped--who have gone away or fallen by the side of the road. I couldn't remember them all, though I may have had a great deal of conversation with them. I've backed out of blogs hundreds of times that had initially been very appealing. Sometimes I backpedal after six minutes, sometimes six months. When I first started blogging, I dropped one woman because she was inanely patriotic about George Bush, who had only just began to skunk the country then. Bush is worse now; I'm not sure about the woman, having already forgotten her url! I doubt she's a peacenik yet, but all things are possible.
The number of others (men and women) I've also dropped like hot potatoes can barely be reckoned. I think I did a post a couple of years ago about bloggers who had dropped off the map (and off my blogroll). I now realize such sites have become too numerous to list. I am probably too demanding. But there's always lots more blogs to fall in love with (however briefly!).
And a Roadrunner, too
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Alice seemed almost as excited about our seeing new birds as we were seeing
them ourselves. On one of the first days we were there, she yelled
“Roadrunner...
16 hours ago
I'm here for 2 months and I "evolve" almost every week.
ReplyDeleteI know, there are many good bloggers around but where exactly?! And how can I find them?!
At the other hand, I make some unwilling 'friendships' and dunno how to lose them, LoL!
You must have been blogging for a long time - maybe you were one of the first, one of the the avant garde?
ReplyDeleteI've only been in blogland for around a year, my previous cyber incarnation was on message boards or ICQ (there are a few memories I'd rather forget....lol!)
You are a hard man to please. Lucky for you some of us don't scare off that easily.
ReplyDeleteCalista: eventually, not always, you must just be tough, kick your legs, and shake those gnawing puppies loose!
ReplyDeleteTwilight: I've been at it for about 5 years, but there were others here when I started who were already "well-seated"!
ReplyDeleteMushy: how vewy, vewy twue!
BOO!
You don't scare me.
ReplyDeleteNyah nyah!
Of course not; you're a big girl now! But some of these others may be shaking in their boots that they will be disliked or dismissed! (I know I always was, at the beginning!) I used to apologize for my presumptions instead of just insulting people at will...
ReplyDeletePeople just can't understand the fact that some parts of the internet are like a Biker Bar! If the kitchen's too hot, let someone else cook. haha
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of cooking, I still get a huge kick out of Porno Pizza
To bad they're located in Canada and not down the street! Could be fun! :)
I'm thrilled I am still on the roll. Always good to come in and check on how the Rat Squeaks
ReplyDeleteAnd I still remember that ONE piece of wisdom I got from YOU. Forgot the exact wording, but it went something like this: "It's the Internet! You're here until you're no longer wanted, or needed, and then you're gone! There's nothing personal about this blogging!"
ReplyDeleteNo, it's more of a "para-phrase", I guess! But you are, and/or were, correct! With a single click of the mouse, anyone can be erased, and you can be none the worse for wear.
Just when I think I've got it down pat, along comes ANOTHER lesson! And so I learn it, too! We LIVE to learn, don't we?
I said that? Okay, sounds feasible. Life is hell, then we die. I also said that!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I know---but I slept through that part of class!(I copied the answer off Mushys' paper, but it didn't do any good---hell, HE flunked, too...!)
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