I looked at a large sampling of my posts on this blog this evening. I'm obviously a tortured psycho. I go all over the ballpark and back again! Everything from impassioned political pleas for action to encouragements to try specific hamburger joints and sushi spots. I have to wonder WTF and I doing here? I know my personal philosophies against the Bush administration will not change attitudes. I suspect my travelogues about my trips to Croatia or Boston or Falba will be meaningless to most who stumble upon this site. What is this site all about? What does it matter?
In a nutshell, it doesn't...or it does. If you are moved or care about what I say, great. If it matters not what I say or you find my posts boring or contrary to your social or political perspective...read something else.
My post yesterday comparing Iraq to Viet Nam is blatantly political. I hate George Bush and everything he stands for. My post about Wingfield's Hamburgers is not political. This blog is a wierd little chunk of my life and my attitudes at the moment.
I am passionate about Mexican politics and Chilean politics...for no rational reason. I am passionate about Michelle Bachelet winning the presidency of Chile...again, for no rational reason. I like reading blogs of people who are very similar to me and very different...no idea why. If you read this blog and hate what I say, get over it...my mind may change...I may come around to your fascist, antiprogressive, dangerous way of thinking ;)
3 comments:
I love your eclecticism. Who says you can't rail against the madness of King George and recommend sushi spots? We all have to eat. And we all need to speak out.
I think blogs like this (and mine) are good in that they bring people in for the posts on food or travel and then they find a post telling the truth they won't hear on Fox about King George and his madness. I had an aunt who read my posts, a conservative who didn't know much about politics, and she was constantly asking where I found that stuff. But she read it. Maybe she mentioned it to one or two people who felt the same way, who knows?
On the other hand blogs that stick to one topic seem to have greater readership, but what's the point of preaching to the choir?
As a wise bloggy friend said to me in the early going on my blog: "It's yer blog. Write what you want!"
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