Lots to write about, but no time. This is how I fail at blogging...
Stayed up late last night compulsively checking the Mariners' score on my phone (they lost in extra innings), then reading another chapter of my Father's Day present. For Father's Day, I got a gift certificate to Third Place Books. I purchased this book: https://www.amazon.com/Evicted-Poverty-Profit-American-City/dp/0553447432/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
Lots to write about that especially. But it will have to be another day.
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Monday, June 20, 2016
Resurrection?
Thinking of resurrecting this blog because:
1. Sad to see my mad writing skills go to waste
2. It is the political season after all, and Donald Trump is a muse of social criticism.
Although in annals of my blogs abandoned after four or five posts, the one about my kids is way better: http://itsyandbubba.blogspot.com/ Maybe I should resurrect that one instead. Maybe I can do both, but I don't think I can do hybrid, because they're so different in tone. One is Christopher Lasch meets Roger Ebert and one is "Baby Blues" meets "Hyperbole and a Half." Actually, if I was one quarter as good as any of those things, I could die happy.
If I am able to pull off the resurrection, which is a rare feat indeed, I may need to be far more stream of consciousness to have time for this. Itsy & Bubba, my last blog attempt, I started when "Bubba" was very young. With very young children, you have both less time and more time than ever before. Now that they are a couple of years older, I only have less time. Never wanted to be that guy, but I do want Itsy to learn to swim, and play soccer, and, heck, probably learn an instrument and a foreign language and a martial art while he's at it. America's great dilemma: why must we live vicariously through our preschoolers?
Anyhow, in another show of arrogance, I've come to believe that the social/political criticism I might offer is just as cogent and thoughtful as most of what I read these days, so how about we dust off that keyboard and give it another go? We'll see how long it lasts...
1. Sad to see my mad writing skills go to waste
2. It is the political season after all, and Donald Trump is a muse of social criticism.
Although in annals of my blogs abandoned after four or five posts, the one about my kids is way better: http://itsyandbubba.blogspot.com/ Maybe I should resurrect that one instead. Maybe I can do both, but I don't think I can do hybrid, because they're so different in tone. One is Christopher Lasch meets Roger Ebert and one is "Baby Blues" meets "Hyperbole and a Half." Actually, if I was one quarter as good as any of those things, I could die happy.
If I am able to pull off the resurrection, which is a rare feat indeed, I may need to be far more stream of consciousness to have time for this. Itsy & Bubba, my last blog attempt, I started when "Bubba" was very young. With very young children, you have both less time and more time than ever before. Now that they are a couple of years older, I only have less time. Never wanted to be that guy, but I do want Itsy to learn to swim, and play soccer, and, heck, probably learn an instrument and a foreign language and a martial art while he's at it. America's great dilemma: why must we live vicariously through our preschoolers?
Anyhow, in another show of arrogance, I've come to believe that the social/political criticism I might offer is just as cogent and thoughtful as most of what I read these days, so how about we dust off that keyboard and give it another go? We'll see how long it lasts...
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