It’s not that I’m not writing things, it’s just that I’m not posting them. It’s not that I don’t have things to say, it’s just that I don’t have things I want to hear myself say. A rare state, indeed.
Usually when I write these posts, I’m on one platform or another. I’m either writing your “basic life update” sorts of things, which feel silly and trite (since most of you who care already know about my “basic life updates”). The other platform is the platform of “things that are in my brain,” which after I put them to paper, seem silly and trite (since they are floofy musings and ramblings, with little intelligent grounding, and make me sound, if possible, more ridiculous than I actually am). There is a third platform, and one that I aspire to: the platform of intelligent discourse and fascinating links and arguments. The platform of parsing through the internet and returning with the “best of the crop” — providing a filtered perspective on the internet. A “here’s what I find interesting, and maybe you will too” sort of thing. There are thousands of examples of just this sort of “platform three” blogger. It’s what started the advent of personal blogging; it’s why I started blogging, in theory. I mean, I actually own books on the subject. For years I’ve wanted terribly to be a good blogger, but like many such intelligent-but-artistic endeavors, it requires discipline, and once a blog becomes a chore, it usually becomes an abandoned blog.
But really, everyone is okay until they end up in platform-four blogging: bloggers who blog about blogging. It’s the one place I hoped I’d never end up, but here we are, I guess.
I do have one interesting thing to share with you. I found it on the inside of my Pineapple-Orange-Guava juice bottle cap. Here it is:
“Hundreds of whales live around the island of Nantucket.”
There. Are you fascinated?