Dead to Me – Abandon Blog!

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:

  1. Fall in a hole?
  2. Eat a magic mushroom and forget who they are?
  3. Delete the email that has all of their passwords and user names saved in it?
  4. Get caught by their boss and finally have to get back to work?
  5. Decide that blogging was absolutely futile, like composing a symphony for your lover, then realizing your lover is, in fact, a backhoe?

Thoughts?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?