Sometim
es, one gets an idea for a post and then it is disproven (disproved?) by fact and the post must be spiked. Such as this morning, I wanted to bitch that my qwerty keyboard on my phone didn't have a semi-colon, thus rendering my texting useless. But then I looked and it did have one. So, the point of the post was lost...and although I would gather I already bitched about dearth of an italics feature at some point and could grouse about that, the flavor and vim of the original thought was lost, and I was left with cobbling together one of those "catch-all" posts that readers, if they actually existed, would abominate.
es, one gets an idea for a post and then it is disproven (disproved?) by fact and the post must be spiked. Such as this morning, I wanted to bitch that my qwerty keyboard on my phone didn't have a semi-colon, thus rendering my texting useless. But then I looked and it did have one. So, the point of the post was lost...and although I would gather I already bitched about dearth of an italics feature at some point and could grouse about that, the flavor and vim of the original thought was lost, and I was left with cobbling together one of those "catch-all" posts that readers, if they actually existed, would abominate.Other times a great idea is rendered null and void on closer inspection/further reflection. Eg, I took this pic at the coffee shop on Saturday, as this dude is coming to D_____ to give some sort of Tony Robbins-or-maybe-Jesus-ish "inspirational seminar":
Was way into posting this pic with a simple, tasteful "Hey! I DO need to rent Battlefield Earth!" title line, but on looking at the pic on the screen and not the poster itself in the granulated morning halflight of the coffee shop, some wag had already made the joke in a far subtler sharpie-equipped way...the eyebrows are drawn on, thus making the joke. So another post is subsumed by circumstance.
Matters of public controversy should also be avoided, at least in a Gadfly Corner Non-Issue Weblog (or GCNIW) such as this one. Some people get upset about the influx of immigrants, legal and non-, from our southern neighbors. How can one avoid getting one's readership riled up when expressing an idea that immigration doesn't matter a whit, when it means that commercial meat-grinding concerns are coming up with products like this?:
In the end, it's best to just ramble on about how one needs to go get some heliotropes and tack on some useless factoid like "They were Babe Paley's favorite flower, you know," thus stoking the "is he/isn't he?" debate, generating controversy and perforce PAGEVIEWS!
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