My cousin Anne is visiting this weekend. At one point, she asked about the longevity of this blog, and I admitted to her that my posting schedule has continued to dwindle as I’ve both lost interest and been sucked further into work and my personal life. However, I also told her that I intended to keep the site open indefinitely, even if there’s not a single person reading, just to have an electronic “post-it” note upon which to scrawl whatever thoughts I feel like putting somewhere.
For example, Anne is currently sleeping on my couch while I sit across from her and catch up on work and email. It is no surprise that she’s taking a snooze at 1:10 pm; yesterday we did a walking tour of San Francisco that started on Market Street and ended at the very end of the Wharf, and punctuated with a ride in a cable car that was so overcrowded that we dangled off the sides while we went speeding down hills. “PLEASE PULL INTO THE CAR” the conductor shouted whenever another cable car came at us from the opposite direction, and we pressed up against a sitting British couple and tried to avoid being grazed, nicked, or squashed by the oncoming traffic. All of this was topped off by watching The Faint at the Warfield (as well as their very perky opening act, Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head).
Anyway, the point is, Anne is now taking a nap over a copy of Junot Diaz’s The Brief, Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao that I let her borrow, and I notice a few things:
See? These thoughts are meaningful, rich in intellectual substance, and worthy of being committed to posterity. Long live my dead blog.
“See? These thoughts are meaningful, rich in intellectual substance, and worthy of being committed to posterity.”
I concur.
i will be more than disappointed if you stop blogging. i started my blog in college after stumbling upon your blog. it was inspiration enough to register on blogspot. and although i haven’t been updating all that regularly - reading your posts is always an inspiration for me to keep writing. even if it is seldom - please don’t stop. you have fans for a reason. x
Oh please keep this blog going. Recently there’s been a lot written on the net about how the personal blog is dead. I don’t believe that facebook or twitter could ever replace a well-written blog like yours. I don’t know you personally, but I very much enjoy reading your posts. Every blogger goes through peaks and valleys in their blogging motivation. Don’t give up
I am very jealous of Anne’s napping abilities. Long live GEESE!
Mom, if you’re reading this, please note that Cousin Greg is using the well-known and effective literary device of hyperbole when describing the cable car ride. Of course we were safely strapped in and traveling at a snail’s pace.
Also, I think the couple were New Zealanders.
!Viva Geese!
Don’t do it for us, Greg. Do it for YOU...and with each new, progressively lamer post, we can feel even better about us.
Or, if you are just trying to squeeze compliments out of your blog-stalkers by using those fancy “literary de-vices”:
Moon-doggie, you’re the absolute ultimate!
Great post!! No, don’t ever stop! I love your blog.
I loved your description of taking the cable car in San Francisco. When I lived in New Orleans, the streetcar rides were nowhere near as exciting. I guess because there are no hills.
Well how the hell did I get here??
Haven’t been here before but read two posts and chuckled appreciatively at both.
I’m “favoriting” you—if I may slaughter the language just a bit—so please don’t stop until I get sick of you!
Pearl
Nice try Anne, but remember that your parents sat in the same seats as the Kiwi/Brits last August, adding to the conductor’s request with wishes of their own for the mother-daughter combo sharing our footrest and leaning out with their hair blowing in the gale-force wind due to the only slightly sub-sonic rate of travel provided by the understreet cable.
Greg, please keep those adjectives, and commas, coming. Thanks.
While I agree with Janine that you should continue to blog for YOU and only YOU, selfishly...I hope that you never stop. I haven’t enjoyed the pleasure of your company in a while, but often think of you and that way fun evening in Lafayette with (other) Greg with fondness and check your blog often.