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Archive for October 30th, 2006

Apostrophizing

I really hate blogs. Seriously. They are such a waste of bandwidth. I am typing absolutely nothing worth reading right now.

If someone is reading this, then I am wasting his/her time.

If no one is reading this, then I am wasting my time.

Either way, this is a waste of time.

How many of us realize that 99.9% of blog content (and that means mine and yours too) is of no interest to anyone other than the writer and the writer's stalker ex-girlfriends? Sure, a long lost friend will get a kick out of reading a blog entry or two, just to see if the writer's personality has changed, but after the "still a dork" realization kicks in, the long-lost friend decides it's better to stay lost, and that's that. No more blog reading. The writer is back to apostrophizing again.

Apostrophizing… is that a word? Who cares. I'll leave it an "exercise for the reader" to go look up apostrophizing on dictionary.com.

Exercise for the reader? Yeah, right. Exercise for nobody but myself 5 years from now when I go re-reading my blog to see if there are any hidden gems.

There ain't, Trav. There ain't. This is crappity crap crap and you know it. You knew it then (when I am writing this) and you know it now (when I am reading this). I'm just been talking to myself all along. Years of talking to myself.

Blogs are so dumb. They are just journals. Total waste of bandwidth. Too much repetition. No real effort goes into constructing or steering the thoughts. It's just improvisation. A mess. Like my music.

And that, folks (i.e., future Trav and stalker ex-gfs) is why after creating music for 26+ years I have made $0 from it. I haven't sold a single CD. Or story. Or photo. Or movie. Zippo.

The fact is, no one "out there" cares what I think or do. I am anonymous. Just like them. Just like you.