Refinding My Voice
posted at 12:32 am
on Aug. 15, 2005
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So, if you read the most recent entries on this blog, you’ll stumble across Something Awful, something that I think is truly shameful, and almost unforgivable.
They’re boring.
Yes, I know this. You have been suffering reading them, and I want to tell you, you’re not alone. I’m sure others have found them boring, too. In fact, I have found myself bored writing them, and bored reading them later. And then I get bored again when I go in and fix the dumb typos.
I mean, come on: “My Mac has been running for 9 days?” “Celebrity Sighting: Julianna Margulies”—does anyone really care? “Video Servers, Web Cams, and Me”? Wow, is that ever crap!
The reason, dear reader, is this: photographs. Frankly, I’ve been taking too many photographs, and at 1,000 words per, I’m drained.
I’m only partially facetious here. I have clearly noticed that, when I take a few photos of an event, my description of that event becomes framed by, and inclusive only of, the things I’ve photographed.
I’m going to keep taking pictures, and writing this blog. But I promise you that I’ll tell more stories, funnier, better, wittier. And it won’t even cost you six million dollars to rebuild me.
I’ll start now, with a little description of a hiking trip I went on last weekend. I now present… The Six Men Who Went up a Mountain!
No, that still sounds boring. OK, how about: “Uphill All the Way—The Story of Scout Camp 2005” There, that’s better. Go make some popcorn, then click next…
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