Sunday, August 06, 2006

Erasure

Okay, I'm a liar.

Also a blunderer.

But then at least one of us knew that.

For unless I can find a more elegant way to conduct a backwards-looking blog--a method that even I can understand--the whole quantum experiment is over.

You can't beat a technology at its own game. And a blog--like its severe companion, Time--is a relentlessly in-the-moment creature. It eats relevancy and memory for breakfast along with the morning news, then doesn't even stoop to line its birdcage or ripen tomatoes with the remains of the day.

All I wanted to do was fix a few broken links in my old posts in a way that was both edifying and absorbing, plus relax, call this a book so I could stop feeling guilty, stop blogging, and start living.

But whatever.

We still haven't figured out a way to stop killing each other, so why should I figure out a new way to use the blog?

Beckett was right. People are bloody ignorant apes.

[image via arirang]

3 Comments:

Blogger Rarity said...

Well, you are definately my favourite blundering liar, and I hope this means that you choose to blog every now and then and NOT that you'll disappear.

(You may perhaps take some time off - I sure had to... and now, I'm much more relaxed about the whole business.)

Your interesting take on new blogging - or blogganova if you wish - should still be pursued, you can combine the two or something. I'm sure you'll figure somthing out...

8/07/2006 06:56:00 AM  
Blogger Riannan said...

Works for me. Seems like you are finding a way to do it, while making it clear to us lazy bums that new stuff is at the links.

(PS, I thought it was "Liar, liar, pants on fire, your nose is longer than a telephone wire."--Inquiring minds, and all that.)

8/07/2006 08:46:00 PM  
Blogger Shawn Z. Lea said...

Post your old posts anew in the present time, one at a time. The best of both quantum worlds of Time and again-filled Space... possibly. ;)

8/12/2006 12:10:00 PM  

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