Kindle calling
So yeah, about the blog. I’m just not feeling very bloggy lately.
I blame the Kindle. Instead of reading with my right eye and fueling my emotional left brain, I’m reading with my left eye now which feeds my rational self and, rationally speaking, I ain’t got squat to blog about.
Sure I could rant, but rants don’t impact anything in this idiocratic republic of ours. Rants don’t fix the broken U.S. Senate, rants don’t hang banksters from street lamps, and rants don’t take a two-by-four to our bloviating Republican shills who are about to start shoveling more middle class tax dollars to the undeserving rich than ever.
There is just no point in caring because we can’t fix what’s broke. The tipping point has been passed, the Democratic gene pool has been thinned of anything or anyone with an ounce of courage and the Republicans have fused with the Southern Democrats to create perhaps the most stupid, inbred Frankenstein monster of racist fascism ever.
Fuck this country and the people in it. No, wait — I think I said that after the election. Rather than repeat myself every few weeks or so, I think this blog needs to chill, and me with it.
Give me some more reading time and I’m sure I’ll find new things to ruminate on but for now, I think I need to keep feeding my right brain. The Stieg Larsson books didn’t satiate but instead whetted my appetite for more good reads. A few more novels and maybe then some nonfiction worth commenting on.
Or not, we’ll see. Just letting you know I’m still OK (much better, actually), and am not blowing this blog off, just building up a new head of steam. Eight straight years of blogging a million words plus a year does catch up to you and I’m sure this break is doing me good. At any rate I doubt anyone’s being harmed by my lack of output.
More later but for now, my Kindle’s calling me.
“Eight straight years of blogging a million words plus”
Maybe metaphorically?
Nice. I used to have some Leon on 8-track, but not this one.
The million words is a hard count, btw. While still with City Pages in ’03 I got paid to count how many words everyone had blogged and my count was well over a million words that year (I was heavily into cut and paste excerpts, but after launching Norwegianity I went years doing 2-5 posts a day, mostly longish).