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I got home from my short trip to find that 1) The Theriomorph had posted an abecedarian and 2) a former regular had emailed me to let me know she was de-linking this blog because I am taking too long to stop writing about Zeke.
You wouldn’t think those two things were necessarily related. You would be wrong, dear reader; so very very wrong. It’s clear that — for instance — the abecedarian (or abecedary) is an underused literary form and thus the yin to the yang of email that tells people not to write about something dear to their hearts, an over-used literary form even if only one person ever does it.
So I spent some time this morning thinking both “I would really like to write an abecedarian” and “gosh, I hope no one else out there is in the same position as my correspondent, wanting to de-link Creek Running North but fearing the gun I am holding to their heads to force them to keep me in their blogrolls.” And as often happens, after a short time holding both thoughts in my head I came up with a common solution to both problems. I could write an abecedarian giving those people on the fence waiting for the starter’s gun their green light to de-link CRN, complete with reasons they might not have articulated fully!
And here it is, though as an abecedary/ian it’s not nearly as nicely alliterative as The Theriomorph’s.
The “Reasons to Delink Creek Running North” Abecedary
All those weird, impenetrable poems.
Blogs are supposed to be something this blog is assuredly not
Chris Clarke Chris Clarke Chris Clarke. Bla bla bla. Bo-ring.
Dearth of Democratic Party development and fundraising posts
Egregious bear pun threads
Frequently posts his thoughts about quitting blogging forever
Geology has nothing to do with politics!
Hates children, and is thus a misanthropic malcontent
Infuriating self-infatuation of the blogger in question
Jokes are supposed to be funny
Kisses up to feminists, people of color, queers, bears, etc.
Loves children and is thus a breeder-pleaser sellout.
Metaphors are hard to understand
Nezua comments here sometimes, and he’s a sell-out provocateur or something.
Opinions that differ from the reader’s
Progressive-bashing with special circumstances relating to inflated accusations of racism, sexism, and so forth.
Quaternary macrofaunal natural history isn’t the reader’s cup of tea
Rabbit posts (too many or not enough of)
Snarky, self-involved posts like this one
Toxic narcissism
Ultra-leftism may well interfere with the all-important goal of keeping the Oversight Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee in the hands of the Democrats
Vegetation is boring, unlike the minute and debated details of the latest blog spat
White man whining
Xanthippe would have drunk the hemlock herself if she’d been forced to read this blog
Yucca brevifolia book is never going to get written if we keep encouraging this blogging behavior
Zeke posts (too many or not enough of)
Posted by: Chris Clarke
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