My summer term is ending soon. Finalizing the term, work, some life, a schedule that demands I go to bed before 1 AM, stymies the postings here, as well as the thought that goes into them. At times the tiny pecks hardly seem worth it, but I’m addicted to this small space here. If you’re in the same boat, or otherwise uninspired, here are a couple of ideas.
Bone, at If You Read Only One Blog This Year, started a tradition long ago, in 2008, called National Blog Something From Draft Week, or as Pia called it NaBloSoFroDraWe. You take an old unpublished draft, and make a post out of it. Bone posted his piece Monday. Though meant for “writers”, any old blogger can do it.
Another option, if you’re extremely busy, or slow witted, is to do what Doug did, and write a limerick.
If you don’t feel like writing you can ponder these lovelies, from the registered trademarked “Harpers Index”.
Amount of governmental support that Canadian banks have required during the financial crisis : $0Estimated number of planets in the galaxy hospitable enough to support life as intelligent as humans : 37,964
Percentage of human genes that have been patented so far : 34
Estimated chance that one of these genes is owned by a private company : 1 in 4
And ……….
Estimated percentage of all existing blogs that have not been updated in four months : 94
The fact is most blogs are abandoned, for a lot of reasons, and if you’re one of those people still blogging after years, you have to ask yourself why? I ask myself daily, and have yet to come up with an answer, but the question must be asked.
Title courtesy of Counting Crows
From the messy desk of the girl women formerly known as Alice
Yes, exactly. Writers go with Bone. The slow-witted out there, come on with me. Pick up your “Mighty Sloths” t-shirt and ball-cap at the camp office.
Alice, I’m guessing you keep posting so the rest of us don’t weep like two dozen Niobes.
.-= Doug´s last blog ..Limericks on Wednesday mean I’m particularly slow-witted and hurried =-.
That Niobes interfered with a perfectly good night. One in which I hadn’t had to look up anything.
Every blogger should know Niobe.
.-= Doug´s last blog ..Geneology =-.
You had me at Counting Crows. (Well, the title acutally.) I’m going to see them next week!
I ponder my own blogging demise at least every other week. Yet I continue. Why, indeed.
Doug’s sounds like a nice place, kinda like the Statue Of Liberty–”Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…”
What am I? Yaddo?
.-= Bone´s last blog ..Becoming "that" person =-.
I hope to see them when they are here n September. They use to play near my uni all the same the first couple of years I was there. Washington really sucks that way, no one cool is ever near, or at least not as often.
If you’re not a writer what are you? A girl, now woman once called Alice, who can spin a sentence and paragraph better than 99.9% of people who call themselves writers and/or bloggers
34% of human genes have been patented? By whom–they own us? Can go on with this forever
And Doug so what am I? I go with both of you :)
.-= pia´s last blog ..A couple of nights on the Upper West Side =-.
The gene thing will be the end of us…just like in the movies. ;)
I’m more on the side of he limerick. I don’t think I have any drafts.
It’s nice to know we are probably not alone in the universe.
.-= casey´s last blog ..Trades =-.
I never thought we were, alone. Did you?
I’ll have to check my drafts, they aren’t “writing” in so much as crap for the most part.
Gene owning companies, it’s what we have to look forward to.
.-= john´s last blog ..Hiroshima Poetry =-.
Of course it is. We’ll be dead before it explodes.
I’m the liege of the limerick, don’t you know?
My only disappointment in dying will be that the opportunity to visit even one planet with intelligent (as us or more so), life, and the fear we will destroy ourselves before a the human race accomplishes that mission. Something we’d be further along in if the human race wasn’t so busy exterminating itself.
.-= thegester´s last blog ..Surfer, Surfing, Blackberry’s =-.
And this is why I love you.
Like a brother.
Only smarter, and with longer eyelashes.
On blogs folding after 4 months, after reading some of them, I think that’s not always a bad thing.
It’s hard to run a blog, that’s why I don’t really run much of one. Some people are just better at it than others, and some bloggers are writers cooper, you for instance.
Owning genes? How Orwellian.
.-= kait´s last blog ..Vera Goes With Black =-.
It is hard,….yawn, and I’ve been going to bed too early to manage.
Hey, I’m buying one of those flowery almost ugly purses
I love the factoids from Harpers.
Genes and life in the Galaxy has always interested me.