I havent posted much

The eBlogger Shredding Machine and Me

I haven’t posted much recently, but it is not from lack of trying. For some reason, the cyber-mechanics of eBlogger keeps eating my deathless prose. To say this has led to my being way over my quota of frustration at this sudden medieval midden of bullshit, is to seriously understate the case.

I have little enough time to write for pleasure or personal edification as it is, but to have the perverse gremlins of blogdom join forces with the fickle muses of poetry and prose to sabotage my meager efforts has made me begin thinking about simply killing off all vestiges of ‘you didn’t ask, but…’ and returning to the primitivism of paper and pencil.

I had a lovely half-rant, half-analysis of immigration reform near completion that eBlogger not only shredded and ate once – but twice. Compared to some of the pure dreck and poorly thought out commentary I’ve read on that subject lately, am I supposed to believe that the small stature gods of the blog would prefer no one made sense on the topic? Certainly the even smaller stature gods of political pundits and mediocre journalism would not want to compete with an average person whose viewpoint and thought mechanisms are totally different and possibly more enlightened than their own. Ergo, is it a conspiracy of cyber bytes?

So, this annoyance, this frustration, this maddening battle with the inner workings of an inanimate creature with a demented robots brain leaves me as exhausted and pissed off as a calico cat getting drenched in a downpour. I make no guarantees for the future of this blog or for my love-hate relationship to it. Posting should be the luxury it once was and not the chore it has turned into. If any regular reader is interested, I suppose you’ll simply have to tune in occasionally to see if I’m still casting a reflection … the same way I do.