Cha-Cha-Cha Changes
Posted by TRO on February 23, 2008
Let’s take a ride on the “Wacky Way-Back Machine” to early 2004. I was very interested in the upcoming election and, unhappy with the information I was getting from the newspaper and TV, I started searching the Internet for more. I checked out all the standard news websites - FOX, CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, various main stream newspapers, etc. - but they didn’t really provide me any more or better than I was getting from the papers and TV.
So I kept looking and that’s when I stumbled upon my first blog.
I don’t remember which one it was, but I was immediately hooked by the novelty, honesty, and immediateness of the thing.
And what was even more interesting was that it provided links to other blogs which had even more links to other blogs. It was never-ending. A virtual roller-coaster ride along an information highway that I did not know existed. Which most people did not know existed. (And still don’t despite the millions of blogs out there.)
It was so exciting.
So I started reading them voraciously. The first blog I read took me to another which took me to another and pretty soon I was surfing to mililtary blogs, personal blogs, cooking blogs, entertainment blogs, porn blogs, mommy blogs, religious blogs, humor blogs, and political blogs. You name the topic and there was a blog, or a hundred, that had it or a slightly different version of it.
I found big blogs who enjoyed thousands of hits a day, and little blogs (like mine) that are lucky to get a dozen a day.
I found guys blogging about cars and women, and women blogging about babies and men.
I found old bloggers and young bloggers; funny bloggers and sad bloggers.
I found friendly bloggers and no-so friendly bloggers. Famous bloggers and anonymous bloggers. Real bloggers and fake bloggers.
And while reading all these blogs it slowly dawned on me that, hey, if they could blog so could I.
So I did. I wasn’t sure what I was doing exactly. I didn’t have real goal in mind. I just sort of scattershotted it. Posts on my life, TV shows, politics, current events, sex, etc. And when I look back over the few posts I can still find from my first blog the only consistent thing I can see is a) my raging hard-on fondness for brunettes, and b) a seemingly endless energy and enthusiasm for blogging.
It was palpable.
Now. Not so much.
I suppose it’s the natural course of things. Like marriage, at first it’s one big honeymoon with hourly calls to each other from work, romantic weekend getaways, wanton kitchen-table love-making, and snuggling-in close to sleep on a twin-sized mattress (all you could afford when you first got married) to “See ya later/Hi,honey I’m home,” heating-up a DiGiornos, buying that California King mattress so you don’t wake each other up when you fart move, the obligatory anniversary dinner, and mandatory monthly sex.
Things change. Slow down. Mature. It’s not that they aren’t as good, they’re just different.
Blogging is that way. For me, anyway.
And here we are, four years later in another election year. And while I am deeply interested in this race - maybe more so than the last one - I just can’t make myself write about it as much.
I’ve tried. Various posts on the GOP guys and the Dem guys, slowing narrowing down to Obama and McCain, but really my heart isn’t in it.
It’s just too big to deal with. There are too many voices out there, better voices, that are already saying so much about it that mine simply isn’t original or insightful or interesting.
To sum up my feelings - Obama very bad, McCain not so bad.
You, my dear readers, either believe that or you don’t and nothing I say is going to change it. Just like nothing anyone says is going to change the vast majority of people’s minds when it comes to those two guys.
I mean I could point out that Obama used to hang with terrorists, and it wouldn’t make one bit of difference to you if you have already bought into Obamamania. A true Obamamaniac might just say that was a plus since one of Obama’s goals is to sit down and chat with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, himself a guy who used to hang with hostage takers in his college days and supports terrorists now.
I could also point out that Obama’s little debate anecdote about our military having to steal ammunition and split-up platoons to fight in both Iraq and Afghanistan was at best an exaggeration and at worst total rubbish, which I knew as soon as I heard it, but again, if you are in love with him and his cha-cha-cha-changes you aren’t going to believe it.
So what’s the point?
There is none.
Anyway, that brings me back to today where I am trying to find my way back to that early enthusiasm of blogging.
And the sad fact is I am not sure I can reinvent that feeling. It’s like trying to regain that new car smell by spraying that stuff from the car-wash onto your ten year old car’s carpet.
Doesn’t work. Usually makes it smell worse. The smell of desperation.
But what I can do is just keep at it. Yeah, maybe most of my posts will be ugly mutts, but occasionally I might just find an Uno that is worth reading.
So, if you have nothing better to do - and really, if you are reading me you probably don’t - stick around.
Ya never know what you might find.
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