This blog is closed
Gone fishin’
This blog is on indefinite hiatus.
Additional note, Thursday 11/2: Thank you all, so much, for your comments and emails. Regular posting will probably resume here sometime after late December, with significant changes in intent and focus. (Read: less politics without cause, less involvement in others’ arguments.)
Along these lines: Wapsie, way down in comment number 52, poses a question that I thought deserved your attention. I repost it here for your convenience. I have an answer, of sorts, perhaps to be explored in 2007, perhaps not. But the question is worth asking even without an answer.
See you in January.
Beautiful dog.
I’ve had the thought that blogs are “over.”
It’s a question worth posing on every blog:
What has all the good writing, the confirmation that there is really Someone Intelligent and Caring out there, actually accomplished—besides making us feel a little better for a few minutes?
Be honest about that. Even with the really big-time blogs. What real, solid gains—for people other than the big bloggers themselves, who enjoy a quasi-celebrity and a quasi-legitimacy—have been made because of blogs?
I’m not posing the question to put this blog down. It’s thoughtful, it’s well-written. But Chris himself mentions doubt about the real utility of blogs among his reasons to go on hiatus.
I think it’s a doubt worth addressing.
What is this medium for, exactly?
Posted by: Chris Clarke
Note: A database glitch in 2008 ate a bunch of archived comments. Don't be offended if yours isn't here, or confused if the conversation seems disjointed. Thanks!
Isn’t it obvious what they’re good for? I’m in it for the money. And the groupies. And the awe-struck look of respect and amazement when someone asks what you do, and you proudly reply, “I’m a blogger.” I screwed up and failed to capitalize on that decade when any no-talent hack could learn three chords, grow his hair down to his ass, and become a rock star, so I jumped avidly on this new, glorious opportunity to win fame and love and riches without actually having to do anything.
By: By pz on 2006 11 05
OK, I probably lied a little bit in that last comment.
By: By pz on 2006 11 05
Good “fishin’” to you “guys”!
Glad you’re “back”, but also that you take time off for your “people”!
Most probably will be here when you decide to return, but have/spend some good time with your “people”!
By: By Yubi on 2006 11 05
I’ll see you in the new year…
By: By Rana on 2006 11 06
Peace.
By: By Jenn on 2006 11 07
Chris, Enjoy the time with your family, especially Zeke who looks like a Really Fine Dog.
I’ll be glad when you return but that’s selfish.Relax and enjoy - should be cool enough for really long treks in the mountains.What do I know? I’m a Southern Hemisphere person.
Thanks for the writing.Seeya.
By: By SUEZBOO on 2006 11 07
Best of everything to you.
Take care. Do what you have to do and we’ll be seeing you if you decide to return.
By: By deviousdiva on 2006 11 08
Oh (mostly) happy day.
Ding dong the Pombo’s gone,
the Pombo’s gone, the Pombo’s gone
sing it loud, sing it long
Ding Dong the evil Pombo’s gone
Gone where the evil go
Twisted black, the sickest flow
Ding Dong the evil Pombo’s gone
By: By spyder on 2006 11 08
It’s the end of Post Mbodernism? That’s good, right?
By: By Rob G on 2006 11 08
I will miss you.
By: By anne on 2006 11 10
=v= Last night I dreamt that I was reading new entries on this blog.
By: By Jym on 2006 11 10
I think my reading here had fallen off a bit, lately, because I could sense that the joy of it was getting muddy and trodden down for you. The writing still marvellous, as ever—I don’t think you’re capable of un-marvellous writing—but the light wasn’t quite right, there were shadows falling in the wrong places.
I realize I’m irresponsible, but I think the only compelling reason to blog is to have a good time, and that the time to quit is when it stops being fun. So quit for now. And come up to Portland, sometime, and let me buy you a beer.
By: By dale on 2006 11 12
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