April 13, 2004
Top Ten reasons not to blog
Lifting the idea from my nettie friend Gary at Inkmusings , who in turn lifted it from David Letterman, I have compiled a list of the ten top reasons not to blog.
10. It takes up all your spare time and all extra memory you may have left in your brain.
9. You could easily gain weight if you blog near a refrigerator.
8. Your friends can no longer trust you not to blog about them, thus carving their foibles into the granite of Google, not to mention your own.
7. You cannot exercise while you blog.
6. It is dangerous to ride a bike, drive a car or talk on your cellie when blogging.
5. You cannot meditate while you blog
4. Unless you have a laptop, and sit in a vacant lot next to a Starbucks, you cannot blog in the great outdoors.
3. You think people read what you write and thus inhibit yourself (haven't you noticed?).
2. Sometimes you delude yourself into thinking you have something important to say and you feel pressed to write about it, and sometimes you have absolutely nothing important to say and you write about it anyway.
1. You stop printing photographs and the ink gets all gummed up in your color printer, and then you can't print anymore. Any chances you ever had of becoming a famous photographer are ruined.
Photo note: I resisted the temptation to delete the Fed Ex package in photoshop, because I felt it lent a flavor of the times and location to this shot. Otherwise, you might think it was taken in the south of France at the turn of the century.