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June 21, 2005

The Life-Cycle of Blogging

Much of it is true. But I think he missed the part about periodic blog burnout and blog-funks.

You guys have hobbies?

You don't do them every day, do you? (Well, apart from dirty-hobbies, which really aren't hobbies.)

Yeah. It's the every day thing that gets to you.

Thanks to Man of Substance.

posted by Ace at 06:44 PM

Comments

Wah. Blogger burnout? What about commenter burnout? Where's my link? Where's our self-pitying piece bout the non-stop grind of producing underinformed, wildly off topic comments/dick jokes on other people's sites?

Now shut up and make with the posts. Tomorrow. The day after that. Forever. Don't make me turn on you.

Posted by: Ray Midge on June 21, 2005 07:05 PM

I like fish. I mean I REALLY LIKE FISH.

But sometimes blogging gets in the way of my hobby. Luckily, nobody reads mine so I don't have to worry about quality posts like Ace. I just reprint email hoaxes and stories about German soldiers wearing mullets.

Posted by: digitalbrownshirt on June 21, 2005 07:09 PM

Periodic blog burnout and blog-funks?

You know ALL about those, don't ya, Ace?

Hey, when you use the word "periodic" does "every day lately" count as a "period"?

Just askin'

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

Posted by: Dave at Garfield Ridge on June 21, 2005 07:15 PM

Quitting before #3 is the right step. If I may be so bold...

Posted by: fat kid on June 21, 2005 07:38 PM

Hmm - I've got a bad feeling about this. First with the online g@mboling thing, the subsequent drop in posts and now this. Are you trying to tell us something here Ace?

Posted by: Enas Yorl on June 21, 2005 10:13 PM

ace just needs to get laid. Preferably by a female blogger.

Posted by: on June 21, 2005 10:28 PM

or that girl on the thoseshirts.com ad... speaking of dirty hobbies...

Posted by: on June 22, 2005 02:37 AM

Mheh.
Exactly--it IS the every-damn-day thing.

It's also the same old bullshit news--anti-Bush moonbattery, anti-AMERICAN shit, ghoulish crime/court stories, blah blah blah blah. Who can keep talking about the same old stories with only slight differences in details, day in and day out? Not me, and I'm damn sure not going to start writing about my (lack of) personal life.

I'm starting to think drunk-blogging is in order, just to mix things up a bit.

Posted by: Beth on June 22, 2005 04:06 AM

This might be a great time for some of us to tell Ace we're not going anywhere if he takes some time off. We don't even need guest bloggers--just leave us an open thread to make smarmy remarks about bbeck's chest and we'll be fine.

No really.

And as far as getting laid, I have offered to take Ace on a Babe Safari over in Paterson in my non-descript Econline and have yet to hear back. I'm guessing he thinks having another guy there pinning his date down is, like, gay or something.

Posted by: spongeworthy on June 22, 2005 09:12 AM

Yeah, I have often wondered how you do it every day Ace.
My hobby is gardening, but it is somewhat of a relief when Winter comes and I get to quit for a while.
If a blogger took a whole season off he'd be nowhere when he got back.

Except Allah, who can take as long of a hiatus as he wants.

Posted by: lauraw on June 22, 2005 09:40 AM

I'm with Spongeworthy, er, on his first suggestion, that is, Ace.

We won't forget you if you take a vacation. Try to make it in July though, cause that's when I'm taking mine, okay?

Leave us a thread to play with, lock the door and chill out in the British Virgin Islands or someplace. We'll still be here.

Posted by: Lipstick on June 22, 2005 02:47 PM

Tortola. (sigh)

Don't forget to put a couple bucks in the cigar box when you get a red stripe from the rusty refrigerator in the teetering shack at Smugglers Cove.

Posted by: lauraw on June 22, 2005 03:43 PM

Yeah... what Lipstick and Spongeworthy said.

We'll be {sings} Right Here Waiting For You.

MoS

Posted by: Man of Substance on June 22, 2005 03:44 PM

Laura, All right!

Next time I recommend Virgin Gorda, stay at the Olde Yard Inn, rent a jeep for the week and you'll be in heaven!

Posted by: Lipstick on June 22, 2005 10:19 PM

LOL!

What would these blogs be without us, the unimitable commenters?

Our life and blood is registered in these little windows, our precious words, the thoughts of magnificent nerds, 40+ yr old adolescents, bored to death dilberts imprisoned in cubicles, or chronically unemployed, without dates, or stale marriages, this is where we shine, where we show the world our glory...
come rain or come shine.

Posted by: Alessandra on June 26, 2005 02:59 PM

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-- reportedly a genuine comment offered by a "senior Labour source"
Correction: I wrote that Labour is losing 88% (now 87%) of the seats it is "defending." I think that's wrong. The right way to say it is the seats they are contesting -- that is, they don't necessarily already hold these seats, but they have put up a candidate to run for the seat. It's still very bad but not as bad as losing 87% of the seats they already held.

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Update: They've now lost 88% of the seats they're defending. As I mentioned earlier, I think I heard that London will not bail them out, as many of those Labour seats will probably flip to "Muslim Independent" or Green. Detroit's 5am vote will not save them.

Yup, Labour is losing 80% of its seats...

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🚨 BREAKING: Labour have lost 80% of all seats contested as of 2:25 AM.<
br> If this continues, Keir Starmer will be out of office next week.

Reform has surged and projected to pick up between 1700-2100 seats.

Wow, up to 1700-2100 seats. It's not incredible that this is happening. It's incredible that the Davos crowd is so absolutely determined to privilege Muslim "migrants" over the actual native population who elects them, no matter how loudly the natives scream that they want to be prioritized, that they will gladly self-extinguish as a party rather than simply representing the interests of their own voters. Astonishing.
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Update: Now they've lost 83% of the seats they were defending.

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Fulton County Georgia just discovered 400 boxes of ballots for Labour
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Updates on the Labour collapse in council elections -- which wags are calling #Starmergeddon -- from Beege Welborne. There are about 5000 seats up for grabs, Labour is expected to lose 1,800, Reform will probably gain 1,580, up from... zero. So this would be more than that.
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