Why, why, why?
Hullo!
To me, blogging generally seems the textural [1] equivalent of standing in a public place and staring fixedly at your reflection in a puddle as you abuse yourself. Some people may choose to watch as you grimace and twitch, most will ignore you – and rightly so – whilst you will feel an odd mixture of embarrassment and pleasure from the experience of becoming a public spectacle. (I assume so at any rate – it’s not a social experiment I’d care to conduct.) The point is, it’s self-indulgent wank of the highest order. I know that. Really I do. And it troubles me that I should be narcissistic enough to leap aboard Onan’s electric bandwagon and keep a blog of my own. Yet here I am doing exactly that. Why?
Well:
a) because I was very kindly given the domain phaude.com for Christmas 2008 with the instruction that I should start blogging, so it can hardly be my fault if I’m only following orders, can it? (Ah, the classic abnegation of personal responsibility…);
and:
b) because I can. Simple as that.
I have no agenda and no expectations. I may write often, I may not. I may be interesting, I may not. I may be funny, I may not. I will undoubtedly waste your time. But if you’ve ended up here in the first place then that’s probably what you wanted, wasn’t it?
Until!
[1] textural in this context as in Webby/Webular/whatever other ugly construct you may hear people employ (cf. Latin: textus, -us: a web, as you’ll remember). Why in the world wide web is this not in common usage? Promulgate, do.
January 8th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Hoorah. Textural.
January 9th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
“Onan’s electric bandwagon”,
who were surely a one-hit-wonder from about 1982.
January 9th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
I believe OEB got in to the top ten in 1983 with their jaunty ditty “Jacking Into The Matrix”, and would have gone on to see greater success had they not been forced to split immediately after a disastrous performance on Pebble Mill in that same year which resulted in the arrest of their synth player after seven members of the studio audience lost all their hair.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:31 am
And the great news is that Onan’s Electric Bandwagon’s album of covers of 70s protest songs, “My Beard is a Democracy”, is doing so well on itunes. The way this washed-up band has embraced social media to @stephenfry their way back to popularity is inspirational.
Anyway…. your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to make it to ten posts on this blog by the end of the year
November 19th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
Sue, that I’ve only just spotted your comment from a month ago confirms my feeble attitude towards bloggery. Challenge accepted. I shall remedy the situation. (I do hope you were wearing a challenge garment when the summons was issued though…)
November 21st, 2009 at 12:11 am
And here, for the audience at home, is the challenge garment on the laser display board:
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