Thursday, July 27, 2006

Sorry. Muse-less today.


So. I love bandwagons as much as the next girl, and now I'm going hitch a ride on this purty one that's travelling through town.

Why do I blog?

Radar managed to provoke a burst of panicky introspection yesterday, by publishing Chesty, Fingers and Donnie's blog addresses. My initial reaction was yay! for them - they're all Site-Meter Whores in their own right (well Fingers would be, if he could get it back...). And for all Donnie and Finger's self-conscious waffling, their posts are funny. And Chesty, well she's thought this through... and she knows what she's doing... and she writes in an engaging, yet thoughtful way. I heart Chesty's blog.
However, the lurkers came and lurked in their hundreds, and the question of 'Anonymity' arose. W, Mex and I (to a lesser extent) suddenly freaked. And then calmed down. As is our wont. But as panic ebbed away, it left the question - What are we doing here? What's the point of these myriad blogs? I know that MrB doesn't get it. He doesn't know why I want to waffle endlessly about crap. And then put it Out There. And he doesn't get how I can be friends with people I haven't met. And he's afraid of freaky internet-lurking freakoids. As are we all...

But I like it. I like writing, and it's something I don't get a chance to do much of anymore. And I can write sentences like that and go hmmm, that's wrong, but you know, I just don't care. Coz I know what I mean. And other people know what I mean too. And that's all that matters.
This blog exists within a bubble. A bubble that will sometimes expand to include my Real Life, but that will often just be me and my puter. And my thoughts...

11 Comments:

Blogger MissE said...

Awwww. I heart your blog too.

But not it a girly blog love kind of way. Just platonicly.

Or Platonically. They both look way wrong.

Anyway, no kinky stuff.

27/7/06 12:28 pm  
Blogger actonb said...

Well that's too ewwww for words.

Yours is a lovely grown-up blog, with a creamy neutral easy-reading template.
Mine is kinda green. and kinda dodgy.

They're from different sides of the tracks Chesty... It was never meant to be.

27/7/06 12:34 pm  
Blogger MissE said...

Hey, don't judge my blog on it's sophisticated beige exterior. My blog can slum it too ... It's done the hard yards.

27/7/06 12:43 pm  
Blogger mushroom said...

Those bubbles look like the bottom of a urinal after the 4th schooner

27/7/06 1:12 pm  
Blogger actonb said...

Hmmm.
Thanks for that shroom.

Chesty - Your's may be a Bad Blog come good. But mine's still back in East Compton. Yo.

27/7/06 1:22 pm  
Blogger actonb said...

Oooooh.
You have a shadowy, living-on-the-dark-side Blog.

27/7/06 2:33 pm  
Blogger mushroom said...

Well it was getting a bit girly in here

27/7/06 2:43 pm  
Blogger fingers said...

Self-conscious waffling ??
C&C is to TWG as Brown Brothers Everton is to Grange...

27/7/06 2:46 pm  
Blogger actonb said...

Hmmm... I never pretend to be anything other than a waffler.
Unlike someone who said, in repsonse to the question 'Do you have a blog?' answered "Yes. It's brilliant. It's called the Whine Guide"
Now TWG is fun... But brilliant?
In terms of brilliance I'd say TWG is your $2 cleanskin.
Quaffable, but with an iinexplicable aftertaste...

27/7/06 2:54 pm  
Blogger fingers said...

I'd say you didn't know shit about wine and less about blogging then...

27/7/06 3:02 pm  
Blogger mushroom said...

Looks like you got a bite, real 'im in now....

28/7/06 8:31 am  

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