Blogs are like great weights affixed to your neck, or rather, like a 200-pound sets of car keys. You don’t want to carry the damn things around, but the car won’t start without them.
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged here. Probably should have stayed current. Should have been updating all along. Could have talked about this project or that, or merely talked about James Gandolfini passing away and why Bruce Springsteen is probably better than I give him credit for and why the Akira manga is crazy good.
Yet the truth is, I’d rather be working on new projects than talking about them. The other truth is, even though it’s seen as your authorial duty to plug your upcoming books or whatever else you’re doing — you have to keep yourself out there and all that jazz — it feels kind of sleazy to me when I do it.
Oh, make no mistake. I do it. Ask any of my annoyed Facebook friends. I do. “Hey, check this out!” Blah blah blah.
But a fan of the process I am not. And so this blog has gone ignored for a while, in part because I didn’t want to engage in that and because I struggled to find worthwhile topics. When I’ve blogged this year, it has been on my Celebrating the Suds blog, in part because it had lead to good things and in part because, hey, beer.
Still, I should keep up with this.
Maybe I’ll start a Bruce Springsteen series or a series on video games or a post about the most deadly butterfly in the world.
Maybe.
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