Begone Themes!
Everytime I find myself struggling to write in my blog, I try to associate it to a reason. Oftentimes, I’ll find that I’ve been quite busy, or the converse, I haven’t been busy at all. Sometimes, I just won’t have anything interesting going on in my life. Those are all very good reasons that will quickly change. Just as a lull may come suddenly, so too may a boon of inspiration. But the most frustrating reason I have for a decline in posts is my own desire to write coherrently.
I try too often to keep my posts related to themes. Well, it’s hard to come up with a post where all the paragraphs associate with one another, where there is some semblance of logic, some flow, narrative, storyline, plot. And because this takes thought, I sometimes reject a desire to write because I can’t think of a real topic.
Well, enough with that! I admire greatly what Tony has been doing lately. Frequent posts, often with a picture, describing something going on in his life or the world, short and to the point. My posts can stretch paragraphs, which can often be too long. It’s time to start trimming the fat in the hopes of putting out a better product.
I read the news a lot, often scrolling thru Google News quickly several dozen times a day. I often find myself with comments to make on various news stories (two you have seen recently – abortion rates and Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Syria). Here are a few more comments I have on recent stories.
1. Scientists find that diets do not affect weight in the longterm. Is anyone surprised by this? It’s not briefly changing eating habits that lead to lifelong changes in weight; it changing the habits that keep you at that weight. If you drink 5 sodas a day, try cutting that out permenantly and see what it does for your weight. If you have trouble working out consistently, work on establishing a pattern that you can stick to. Set reasonable expectations and rules. Long-term changes to behavior have long-term effects; is that so shocking to realize?
2. The father of Anna-Nicole Smith’s baby has been revealed, and it’s not Howard K. Stern, it’s Larry Birkhead! I was rooting for O.J. Simpson or Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband. Oh well. Good luck to you, Mr. Birkhead.
3. All charges have been dismissed against Duke Lacrosse players. What a mess that whole situation has been. I still want to know – what were these players doing having a party with a stripper? What went on that triggered her to make the accusations? What was the DA thinking in speaking out so frequently at press conferences (about how he was 100% sure a rape had occured)? And finally, has anyone addressed the weird comments the players had made to each other after the party (I recall some comments about murdering strippers or something)? Yuck on the whole thing.
4. North Korea set to dismantle their nuclear reactor. What? Diplomacy works? Give a little to get a little? Who the hell ever heard of that?
So BAM! There you have it. Long, yes. Rambling, yes. Devoid of theme, sort of. So, mission accomplished, not in terms of accomplishing the mission, but like Bush’s sign on that Aircraft Carrier.
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