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Happy New Year
Monday, January 4th, 2010Why Launching the Blog is Taking So Damned Long
Thursday, July 30th, 20091. WordPress and CSS are effed up and I refuse to give up sheSaid’s design and heSaid and sheSaid have other projects, ones that pay them better than I do (as in, you know, at all) plus a babySaid, plus sheSaid is getting a new site of her own for her fan-frigging-tastic self-portraits and . . .
2. It would have been up months ago, except I procrastinated about something I was supposed to do, and then their projects took precedence. Is my own doing.
So, why not just start blogging now, that way I’d be writing regularly and building an audience?
Because that’s like walking into prom in jeans and a tee-shirt, saying “hi” to all your friends and your crush with his slutty date, then going and putting on your dress and your sparkle make-up, coming back, and realizing that they totally already played the Macarena and now everybody is just humping and you’re all alone.
Also, because I’m working on some fiction stuff. And by “working” I mean, writing three paragraphs, becoming overwhelmed with the things that I do not know and wondering if my idea is trite and cliche, then wind up lying flat on my back, staring at the ceiling, and making lists in my heads of all the things I might like to be besides a writer, and wondering if 9-5 in a cubicle isn’t as bad as I think it is. Then I go to work the next day, determine that yes, yes it is just that bad, become UTTERLY DETERMINED to write something decent, go home, repeat. Or watch a DVD.
Basically, I need to grow up a bit before I can write any fiction, as I’m currently pretty self-absorbed. Which makes a personal blog perfect for me, except, as I said, I’d much rather wait to “launch” it when it’s properly set up, so I can have a better way of tracking viewers, feel comfortable linking and commenting, etc. Am reasonably certain that nobody is reading this now, which is good, because I have absolutely no idea when it will be ready to go. A final upside to the long, long delay in the blog launch is that I’ve had a longer time to conceptualize how I want the blog to be, which topics I want to cover, and how to limit talking about stuff that bites me in the ass later. A couple of years ago, I ran a blog where all I did was talk about my love life. As is prone to happening when a woman admits interest in sex while allowing for anonymous comments, people called me a slut. I hadn’t even ever had sex. It was predictable, and I didn’t take it to heart too much, but I don’t necessarily want to go there again. Public sexual discovery? Blargh, I’m not a pop star.
Things It Is Hard to Do With a Broken Arm
Saturday, July 18th, 20091. Type
2. Open a bottle of Vicodin
3. Open a bottle of water to take said Vicodin
4. Open a can of Vanilla Coke Zero
5. Unwrap a straw
6. Avoid feeling sorry for self
7. Eat non-finger food
8. Bathe
9. Dress
10. Text message
Launch Coming Soon, I SWEAR
Friday, June 5th, 2009Maybe as early as Sunday. The blog is going to be leaving WordPress and will be run entirely off of my friend’s hand-built blogging software–the bones will be a lot like that of PurpleHouseonPearl.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Review
Saturday, May 23rd, 2009I’m contributing to a “Fill in the Gaps” project, where a group of bloggers commit to “filling in” their reading gaps, reading books that they think constitute a gap; for some, it’s a list of classics, for some it’s all writers that they’ve never read, and for others, it’s going deep into the lists of favorite or famous authors. For most, like me, it’s a mix. I loved The Handmaid’s Tale, so I’m reading more Atwood; I’ve always enjoyed Mark Twain, so I’m taking the opportunity to hit up his major works. I’m also reading books friends have raved about for years but I’ve never picked up, and, of course, War and Peace, Ulysses, and Moby Dick.
I just finished The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, by Mark Haddon, and the review is here. I’m currently reading Atmostpheric Disturbances, by Rivka Galchen, and I’m also participating in “Middlemay,” a community project to read all of George Eliot’s Middlemarch. You can expect some classic Double-Oh Pisces waffling over many books, because I hate to give a book a bad review, but for now, at least, I can only sing the praises of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. I may be a few years behind on this book, but I sincerely did love it, and highly recommend it.
Orange Kitties
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009Orange Kitties are cuter than all other kitties. They are really the only kitties worth the time and effort of photography. CuteOverload needs fewer generic balls of kitty fluff, and more of the A-list kitties.
Socks
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009One of my Firmly Held Beliefs is that socks should have cotton and lycra in them, unless they are made of merino wool or are dressy trouser socks or riding socks. Ok, I have lots of exceptions, but ordinary everyday socks have to be a cotton/lycra blend, heavy on the lycra, with only mild ribbing. They can’t be too long, but they also can’t be ankle socks–they have to roll down.
I could say more, I really could. But since this is a test post, I’ll refrain.