...when I'm sitting here typing away wondering why I'm sitting here typing away, I wonder why it is I feel compelled to do this since the whole gig comes with no dollars and even less public acclamation. Not that I seek those things, exactly, but it does seem a rather odd way to pass the time between bureacratic emergencies, when I could be out doing something productive, like bringing about global peace and understanding.
I must admit that I do feel a touch better about it when I read this little throw-away pixel'd by my blogging inspiration, Mr. Lileks:
One more thing: it seems I’m up for a weblog award. You can vote here. I would love to beat Andrew Sullivan, not because I have any animus towards him, but because he’s backed by Time magazine, and this is a go-it-alone operation paid for by yours truly. Heck, if I win, I might even get listed on the Star-Tribune’s page of staff blogs. Wouldn’t that be a kick in the head.
Heh--he's been writing and posting stuff on that there Internet since it was nothing more than a moist synapse in Al Gore's cranium, and the very newspaper he works for doesn't even have him on its list of staff blogs!? It's so very Gift of the Magi-y, so ridiculous or comedic or comediculous or whatever that I can't even fathom it.And I guess it makes not figuring out a way to convert my five years worth of mindless turgidity (the online version, that is) into huge baskets of money a bit easier to live with.
A bit.
Posted by Terry Oglesby at December 8, 2006 12:28 PMI guess you could give it all up, but who else would you spend your time talking to besides us, your faithful readers?
Besides the voices in your head, of course.
Posted by: skinnydan at December 8, 2006 12:33 PMWell, I do enjoy it, for some reason, and getting to talk to people OTHER than the voices in my head has been a very rewarding side benefit of the whole enterprise, so I don't suppose I'll be quitting unless forced to do so by jackbooted authoritarian-type persons.
Or if I get distracted by something shiny.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at December 8, 2006 12:56 PMAnd just what evidence do you have that Skinnydan and I aren't the voices in your head?
Posted by: Larry Anderson at December 8, 2006 01:40 PMI've seen both of your FBI files.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at December 8, 2006 02:05 PMDon't believe everything you read. That whole thing with the Sandinistas was just a practical joke that I admit went a little too far.
Posted by: skinnydan at December 11, 2006 08:14 AMOh sure--it's all fun and games until someone gets hurt. It's like Mom always said--"horseplay leads to heartache."
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at December 11, 2006 08:16 AMAnd it's corollary: "Sandinistas and swingline staplers lead to Subterranean Nuclear Explosions."
Like I said, things got a bit out of hand.
Posted by: skinnydan at December 11, 2006 11:49 AM"...things got a bit out of hand."
Funny, that's the same thing Fawn Hall said to me about it.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at December 11, 2006 12:41 PMGeez, can't that woman keep her mouth shut about ANYTHING?
Posted by: skinnydan at December 11, 2006 01:50 PM