Next Blog

There's a button, at the top of my blogger window that says, "Next Blog". I started clicking it one day and quickly became fascinated by how many blogs were dead - but still alive, still there. A brain dead organism in the middle of a really crowded space. I then discovered that these ghost blogs fall into one of two categories.


One group made a conscious choice to walk away and announced it with some sort of explanation.

November 16, 2009

there are certain people who judge me

as a mother by what I do

(and do not)

write,

so I will no longer be posting on this blog,

thank you very much.

The other group seemingly vanished overnight. One day they're talking about an upcoming trip, just the sort of thing they would cover on their blog replete with pictures of tan and healthy people jumping from airplanes and sailing the South Pacific, and then nothing. Not one word for months, years.

June 12, 2010

I had a conversation with Marion.

She was mean.

But I told her she was better than that.

They are all accidental poetry. And a little bit of mystery. I suppose the mysteries might be solved by reading backward on their blog, but I don't plan on doing that. I don't really feel like it's my business. And there's my conundrum.

I want to share these last entries with other people. I want to blog about these ghost blogs. But I am not sure if it's right to do so. They are still out there in the public domain, and this definitely falls under fair use, so I don't think there is anything legally wrong with it, but morally...these people are done blogging. Is it fair to dredge up their old stuff?

What if someone dredged up my old blog? Is it even still out there? I have very faint memories of the thing - I think it was mostly pictures of my cats. Come to think of it, there are few things more embarrassing than having a blog about your cats.


I have decided that, if I start this blog, I won't link to the dead blogs. I think I have decided that. Sigh. This is all pretty moot considering I will probably be the sole audience for this blog. But maybe, one day, after this blog dies, someone will resurrect a part of it and it will become famous blog-post-humously.


Until then:

November 4, 2010

here's a post specially dedicated to you.

a straightforward declaration of anger
would have been sufficient,
thank you.

it definitely hurts less than your judging.

and don't try to sugarcoat it up.
that just makes it equivalent to you smiling sweetly

while shoving a knife into my gut.