Problems with blogging, by Mark:
1. I will never be as interesting or funny or essential as Laura Llew. This is a big thing for me - the certainty that what I write won't have an iota of the charm or the personality of what emanates from Ms L's keyboard makes me wonder why I do this. The thing is, most of the people who read (please pronounce this in the past tense) also read Laura's, and the horror of being looked at *after* her latest ejaculations is just too terrible to contemplate.
2. I caught a glimpse of some writing Sarah had done over her shoulder a few days ago and it's also so much better than anything I could ever write. Damn these talented women.
3. Sarah's been here, since her move at the start of September, and quite frankly I've had better things to do*
(*though there have also been any number of pissy, irritating, bureaucratic things that she and I have had to put up with concerning the move, and if I started banging on about them you'd press the little red X as soon as you saw the words "but what REALLY pisses me off...")
4. I don't do anything interesting, and I have no memory for bons mots.
5. I'm a lamex0r.
6. Calvin and Hobbes have taken up residence in my toilet. Thanks to Paul moving in, I now have ESSENTIAL READING MATTER that is far more fun than writing self-indulgent bollocks on the modern interweb.
7. I've been going to more football matches (I've seen AFC Wimbledon 6 times this season - 6 wins, GET IN) and the rugby world cup has just started, for goodness' sake!
8. I've had, like, full time work, a bit.
9. Sigh. Isn't this getting boring? It's not funny or illuminating, and I doubt you even got this far.
10. See? I can type what I like now. The joke's on you, reader. Ha.
(p.s. 10a Sarah just reminded me that I was doing a very prolonged and inaccurate Judas (sic) Street Porter impression in the pub last night. Most enlightening malapropism evah!)
Posted by biondino at October 12, 2003 08:45 PM