My Lover, My Backhoe
There is something AWFUL about an abandoned blog on my Google Reader. I click and click and click on “hopeful curmudgeon” and it is always February 26, 2008. Hopeless is more like it! My own version of Groundhog Day!
I wonder what happens when people stop blogging? Did they:
- Fall in a hole?
- Eat a magic mushroom and forget who they are?
- Delete the email that has all of their passwords and user names saved in it?
- Get caught by their boss and finally have to get back to work?
- Decide that blogging was absolutely futile, like composing a symphony for your lover, then realizing your lover is, in fact, a backhoe?
Google Reader ruined it!
One thing I can say: I love my blog reader, BUT I don’t have a tendancy to comment much on other people’s blogs when I am reading from the Reader. Instead I think “ahhh” or “how very insightful!” and move on. Google promotes relationship laziness – even at the blogger level!
Hence, I believe I have been communicating with my friends and colleagues, but in fact, I’ve been making love to imaginary backhoes in my mind.
Comments, anyone?
