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Hey there.
It's been a little while since I've posted. To be honest, I haven't really been able to sustain a thought worth posting about. I could talk about being sick, or putting new flooring in my house, or preparing things for Kaitlyn's upcoming baptism. I could start filling this blog with picture of the newest member of my family. Heck, I could recap the news, describe my shopping experiences, or any one of several dozen things. I could provide a window into my life and my interests. I could try and write funny things; I could focus on the people who read this stuff.
But that's not what this tar pit is -- for me.
This blog you are skimming through is a specifically purposed place where I chronicle humorous thoughts and less humorous struggles for understanding; a documenting of my glimpse into the human condition. And the big difficulty is that, while there is alot going on in my life right now, some strong good and some strong bad, none of it has settled into the kind of sanitized, universal commentary that prevents me from getting in trouble when I write about it.
When I sidetrack myself into providing a literary window into my day-to-day I feel I have dodged a personal responsibility: reflecting on my life long enough to say something interesting about it. Besides, I find day-to-day posts exceedingly voyeristic and there are plenty of other and better voyeristic outlets on the web than this place. If you track this blog just to get to know about my life better than, brother, you need a hobby. 8)
All of this boils down to, I suppose, a dilemma faced by several bloggers: A steadier stream of chit-chat (jibber-jabber?) or bursty insight. Clearly one is better to maintain a readership! But, as I have had to remind myself again and again, I'm not paid to write this blog and the sole intended audience of these missives is 40 year old Ed.
Of course, if I really had the balls to believe that last sentence, I wouldn't need to sanitize and universalize my commentary before posting it and I'd be outputting a ream of material a week. It does, however, sound noble and selfless, so I'll end on that asking, of course, for this present paragraph to be promptly excluded.
-Ed
It's been a little while since I've posted. To be honest, I haven't really been able to sustain a thought worth posting about. I could talk about being sick, or putting new flooring in my house, or preparing things for Kaitlyn's upcoming baptism. I could start filling this blog with picture of the newest member of my family. Heck, I could recap the news, describe my shopping experiences, or any one of several dozen things. I could provide a window into my life and my interests. I could try and write funny things; I could focus on the people who read this stuff.
But that's not what this tar pit is -- for me.
This blog you are skimming through is a specifically purposed place where I chronicle humorous thoughts and less humorous struggles for understanding; a documenting of my glimpse into the human condition. And the big difficulty is that, while there is alot going on in my life right now, some strong good and some strong bad, none of it has settled into the kind of sanitized, universal commentary that prevents me from getting in trouble when I write about it.
When I sidetrack myself into providing a literary window into my day-to-day I feel I have dodged a personal responsibility: reflecting on my life long enough to say something interesting about it. Besides, I find day-to-day posts exceedingly voyeristic and there are plenty of other and better voyeristic outlets on the web than this place. If you track this blog just to get to know about my life better than, brother, you need a hobby. 8)
All of this boils down to, I suppose, a dilemma faced by several bloggers: A steadier stream of chit-chat (jibber-jabber?) or bursty insight. Clearly one is better to maintain a readership! But, as I have had to remind myself again and again, I'm not paid to write this blog and the sole intended audience of these missives is 40 year old Ed.
Of course, if I really had the balls to believe that last sentence, I wouldn't need to sanitize and universalize my commentary before posting it and I'd be outputting a ream of material a week. It does, however, sound noble and selfless, so I'll end on that asking, of course, for this present paragraph to be promptly excluded.
-Ed
posted by Ed at 12:54 AM
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