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November 07, 2005

The Long Dark November Of The Blogging Soul

Wunderkraut's unhappy:

Maybe all bloggers go through this at some point. This must be where most give up, while others stick it out. You reach a point where you have written about the things that most interest you and you feel like you are repeating yourself. What more is there to say? How many more times can one point out the bias in the MSM? How many more times can you point out the hypocrisy of the Democrats in Congress concerning the war in Iraq? How many times can you bash Republicans for selling their souls and spending like drunken Democrats? How many times can you criticize President Bush for failing to use the bully pulpit to explain his positions on the war and on Social Security?

How many times?

Trust me-- a lot of frickin' times if you want to keep this up. I don't think I've said something original since May 2004.

It's the nature of the beast, though. Anyone who has to produce opinions day-in day-out is going to have to start, errm, judiciously recycling them. How many times has the Doyenne of Ditz Maureen Dowd likened the Bush Administration to the Sopranos and/or The Godfather? About sixty-seven bazillion at last count. And she only writes twice a week. (Or, as Truman Capote said of Jacqueline Susanne, "She doesn't write, she types." And, yes, I've quoted that before, too.)

And yeah, that's why I sometimes don't post much... sometimes I just think, "Does anyone really want to read that CBSNews is a liberal institution again? Or that Mary Mapes is an idiot?"

I couldn't even bring myself to comment on Mapes' book. It's like picking on the retarded kid at school-- sure it's great fun for all involved (including for the retard, who's happy as a clam to play a rousing game of "Who took my favorite Snoopy hat and filled it with vegetarian chili and dissected cat organs?"), but it leaves you feeling a little empty.

That said, Wunderkraut goes into the breach once more and notes media and Democratic hypocrisy on Michael Steele, "twisted intelligence," and the like.

Repetition About Repetition: Actually, I'm pretty sure I wrote a similar post with the same title "The Long Dark November of the Blogging Soul."

In fact, I might have written the same f'n' post twice before.


posted by Ace at 02:02 PM
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Does this mean we can expect to see more fucking Miers posts in 2006?

Posted by: compos ments on November 7, 2005 02:06 PM

Nope.

Posted by: ace on November 7, 2005 02:08 PM

However, drunken lesbian cheerleaders never get old.

Posted by: Jason on November 7, 2005 02:10 PM

whither is fled the visionary gleam,
where is it now, the glory, and the dream?

Posted by: Dave in Texas on November 7, 2005 02:19 PM

Don't lie to me Ace. Lie to girls. But not to me.

Posted by: compos mentis on November 7, 2005 02:22 PM

Eternal recurrence, Ace. Also sprach Nietzsche:

"The greatest weight. -- What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence--even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!'

Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.' If this thought gained possession of you, it would change you as you are or perhaps crush you." (The Gay Science, #341)

That's why I don't write a moronblog. I just comment on a moronblog.

Posted by: cjan on November 7, 2005 02:25 PM

One way of keeping it going is spicing it up with tales of your AoS lifestyle. Yeah. AoS Lifestyle for the Ladies. AoS Lifestyle for the Men. And of course, AoS Lifestyle for Your Inner Gay Guy. :)

Posted by: on November 7, 2005 02:31 PM

Am I the only one who, upon seeing all these Michael Steele blog references, first thinks "Why is everybody picking on the bass player for the Bangles, and isn't it a little weird to be criticizing a fine musician who happens to be a white chick as an 'Uncle Tom?'"

OK, yes, I am the only one....

Posted by: David C on November 7, 2005 02:35 PM

Yeah, you're pretty much alone on that one, David.

I do get confused about some of these things, though. The whole John Edwards thing got confusing at times... I had the guy as my lawyer once, and when I heard about the "psychic" guy I wondered why Edwards gave up his lucrative tort lawyering biz. When I heard he was running for the Senate, I got confused again.

I'm still wondering why he gave up the liability lawyering gig. He was very good at that.

Posted by: meep on November 7, 2005 02:38 PM

There is nothing new under the sun.
If the reader hasn't seen it before, its original to them.

I only think I'm unique or different because I haven't lived through all of time and seen how often people just like me crop up.

Posted by: lauraw on November 7, 2005 02:41 PM

Blogging is still fun. Sometimes, I feel like swearing off commenting, tho'. When you see one regular make a comment, and you know exactly how the trolls are going to respond. And they're just going to repeat the same arguments that got shot down last time. So, they're going to require the same refutations. So, you just kinda say screw it.

Posted by: V the K on November 7, 2005 02:52 PM

Yeah, but Ace, you're funny. It's not just for edification but for hilarification that I frequent your blog. Your take downs of folks are completely original, especially when you have at Andrew Sullivan, Oliver Willis, and Bob Dole's cock.

Posted by: fasterplease on November 7, 2005 03:00 PM

Oh, so now you're complaining about blogging?

When in doubt, post a thread on bridges.

Posted by: Bart on November 7, 2005 03:23 PM

You've posted like twenty entries today (one of which probably should count as five). None of your readers can keep up with all the links, much less the discussion threads.

And on top of that, you decide to post an entry about how you're having a hard time thinking of things to post. This place is turning into another friggin' instapundit. (Instapundit with lesbian cheerleaders, hand grenades, and low self-esteem, that is.)

Posted by: sandy burger on November 7, 2005 04:34 PM

That's why I don't have a blog. I have a website. I add something to it once every few weeks and I don't promote it or tell anybody where it is. That way, when I get email that says, "jeez, who are you and what's the deal with your website?" I can be all, like, "hey! That's private! What're you doing reading my private website?"

Posted by: S. Weasel on November 7, 2005 04:54 PM

I thought the Capote quote was in response to hearing that Kerouac wrote "On the Road" in two days?

I could be wrong.

Posted by: on November 7, 2005 06:34 PM
Weasel: I have a website...and I don't promote it or tell anybody where it is.
??? No wonder why you are losing bets to DUmmies.

Buy yourself a notebook, it's cheaper.


Posted by: Bart on November 7, 2005 07:13 PM

Buy yourself a notebook, it's cheaper.

D'you know...it isn't?

Posted by: S. Weasel on November 7, 2005 09:03 PM

The article about weather manipulation gives a nod to the hep new conspiracy theory: CHEMTRAILS.

Those in Berkeley know what I mean.

Posted by: Knemon on November 7, 2005 09:41 PM

You said something original in May 2004?

Oh, come on, you left the door wide open.

Posted by: John from WuzzaDem on November 8, 2005 12:51 AM

Its november amd as they say in the GREAT LAKES area the witch of november are lose and it will be 30 years since the los of the EDMUND FITZGERALD

Posted by: spurwing plover on November 8, 2005 09:49 AM

WTF, is blog apathy/burnout contagious? I just had one of those whines the other day, and someone who apparently knows me too well told me to shut the fuck up, thank God. Problem solved.
Or at least I'm not bitching any more. Still hate the blogosphere, but I'm not bitching. Nope, not me. Not bitching.

Posted by: Beth on November 9, 2005 01:27 AM

SP, did you have to bring that up? That song was stuck in my head earlier today, and now it's going again.

Posted by: Desert Cat on November 9, 2005 09:43 PM
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