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Blogger's Temptation

I am amazed at the prodigious output of so many bloggers - how they are regularly able to churn out posts that are stimulating and well written.

I'm beginning to fear that I am ill-suited to this medium. Most of my reflections need time to germinate, and by the time I'm ready to lay out my cards, often the moment is gone, having been eclipsed by the latest news or controversy.

I wonder if other bloggers feel tempted, as sometimes I do, to violate the old saw: "when you've got nothing to say, better to say nothing."

But, hey - this post managed to say something about the experience of it not being time to say anything.

And while I'm at it .... I heard the Zen Master say, "I'll have a hamburger, I won't have a hamburger."

April 7, 2004 | Permalink

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Paul,
the whole point is to make mistakes in public, I think. Blogging is the writer's equivalent of exhibitionism. When somebody like the guy who runs Kos says something gross, and loses advertisers, I think: what did those advertisers think blogging is? You gotta write from the libido. Your hates, loves, etc. The posts you prepare sometimes don't come off at all. I wrote a series of clever (so I thought) posts about Edwin Wilson, the ex-CIA spy jailed for providing Gaddafi with plastique, among other things. Nobody read em. My great and persistant readers want "nude girles", 'Saudi nude girles" or -- heartbreakingly -- "Rita Hayworth nude" The old onanist remembering a silver screen flame, man!

But somehow, I don't think I'm equipped to write about any of those topics (save Rita).

So here's to automatic writing, otherwise known as blogging.

Posted by: roger at Apr 9, 2004 5:48:43 PM