Creek Running North

I think it’s post-fireball slump?

The problem is obvious - not enough bunny hypnosis videos.

People might also be on vacation.

It’s a combination of your relative lack of posting and other people being away.  Also, many of us who read you don’t always click onto your blog, as we read your site feed.

Diggin’ the bunny hypnosis, and also the fact that you appear to have lost 5 or 6 thousand hate-hits a month - or at least drama-generating ones. This is a good thing.

It’s early August yet, though, and Charles Simic may not yet have heard about yesterday.

So you know, the eggs are uncounted.

Dude it’s only Aug. 4.

Anyway, nobody reads my blog and you don’t see ME turning into some weepy little pantywaist girly whining sorry-ass little...... BWAAAAAAAAAAA YOU PEPEL ARE MENE AND I HAT YOOOOOOOO

Probably some people are on vacation, some people just spend less time online when the weather beckons them outdoors to play.

Then there are people like me who have all kinds of crap happening at one time that precludes leisurely blogreading—my husband had surgery, my father-in-law died, and I immediately got empaneled on a jury.  When things settle down I can get back to enjoying dropping in to read your fine posts.

Damn, Emily. I’m sorry to hear about your father-in-law.

Really, people. I’m not complaining. Honest. I realize that’s uncharacteristic of me, but it’s true.

Thanks for your condolence, Chris.  But he was a terrific old guy who lived 95 good years and his illness was brief, with the excellent care of hospice workers easing his pain.  The difficult part was all of us helping my mother-in-law to deal with the loss.

I didn’t think you were complaining—I was really just offering some suggestions about why your traffic might ebb on occasion that would have nothing to do about what you post or don’t post.  Sometimes just a bunch of circumstances cause folks to not be able to check in as often as we’d like to enjoy one of the best blogs around.

Oh, I didn’t think you were accusing me of complaining, Emily.

It was all perg. Totally her fault. Snif. But I’m fine. I’M FINE.

I have just slapped myself on your behalf. Now we both feel better!

I just re-read Loren Eiseley’s The bird and the machine last night.  It reminded me of you, and I hope you take that as a compliment.

I was under the illusion that you had quit blogging.  I don’t know where I got that idea.  So I quit coming over.  Color me stupid!

I did take an ambiguous break or two, delagar. No stupidity required, at least not from CRN readers past or present.

Guest:  I’m sure you helped Chris reverse his traffic decline
BlogWarBot:  Do you expect a cookie just because you’re sure BlogWarBot helped Chris reverse his traffic decline?
Guest:  Do you always refer to yourself in the third person?
BlogWarBot:  And it IS my self in the third person, so keep your hands and eyes and laws off it, pig.

i think you are right. i thought about this a while ago. but i think part of (many people’s) blogging is that it is a stand-in for social activity. so...the internecine fights not only help determine who is on what “side,” (something we tribal creatures seem to really crave), but also to provide simple social bonding/activity. sad but true.

Or perhaps a few thousand usual readers are on their own vacations and tours and so forth.  Surely they weren’t as gullible as i and thought you really meant you weren’t going to keep blogging here, so i left town and haven’t been back.  I am only checking in now because i have the time and computer access. 

Chris i sure wish i knew you were going to pass through Portland on that Friday in July.  I had a full festival pass {SCI Summer Camp and Peak Experience Full Moon Magic Creation Danceathon at Horning’s Hideout} for you (and even one for Becky) to come out to North Plains and engage a few thousand well-minded folks in some discourse on using the blogsphere to edumacate and interinform.  Maybe there is a chance we can discuss it up at the Watershed Poetry Festival next Saturday in Berzerkely????

Us RSS readers… always getting dissed.