May 18, 2009
On Becoming a Happy Blogger
by JeremyI have figured something out: blogging used to be a kind of purgative for me. I would vent, evacuate, unload, purge...then pull the chain.
There's a fragmented line in Happiness is a Warm Gun: "...a soap impression of his wife which he ate and donated to the National Trust." If "donating to the National Trust" is not a witty metaphor for going to the bathroom, then it should be. And eating soap, I have been told, is something soldiers have sometimes done to get a day off from combat. But I'm digressing in a particularly icky way here.
My point is this: if a person could be inspired to use his blog as a place to put the products of his healthy and creative self, and thereby offer nice things to nice people, then that might be better. Use the blog as a kitchen, in other words, not so much as the aforementioned plumbing nexus. Maybe I've done that in spite of myself from time to time, but why not make it a feature instead of a bug. So let's go ahead and make that a manifesto.
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