My new best friend Paul Wheatley has recently started his own blog. This is not an accomplishment in any way, as starting your own blog has become the equivalent of brushing your teeth in the morning. Everyone is doing it… (I started it—insert applause here)
Paul, however, has done something rather unorthodox: he lets his girlfriend, Amy, post on his site. Has allowing your better half access to post on your blog become the newest form of electronic intimacy? Has sharing your blog become the new form of sharing spit? Is intimacy delivered by a fiber-optic cable?
I think it’s safe to say that I’m more or less in a relationship with my blog. It takes up my time. I have to pay attention to it. It can make me angry, or happy. It requires… maintenance.
I’m sort of in a relationship right now, as we speak. All I hear is “Can I look at your blog!? Let me see! I don’t want the blanket. Bluh!!” My blog is getting jealous, and the tension is mounting. Girls get in the way of things that matter sometimes. The Daily Rice is feeling neglected. The Daily Rice wants more attention. The Daily Rice is getting bitchy.
6 comments:
Michael rocks... love, corrie
I am happy to see that a person can comment on the blog again. Keep up the good work Michael. Don't let one or two jealous people affect your blog. The ones who leave rude comments, just don't have the talent you have to write and can only lash out by making offensive comments about you and your very good, enjoyable blogs.
Mike McCoy
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce…? The cuckoo clock.
Orson Welles
It's sad when Michael writes comments to himself...signing my name.
Corrie
Michael, two things. Well maybe three...
1. Team blogging, much like intimacy in other arenas, leaves you open for great joy and great embarassment. Don't give the password too easily. Amy lost the privilege.
2. I've gotten as many shoutouts on your blog as I have posts at this point. That's batting 1.000 for all you people keeping stats out there. I'll try to post some more soon.
3. "...new best friend..." I'm flattered. Did I supplant Corrie?
Paul,
Who's Corrie?
-M
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