Fuckitty, Fuck, fuck! Today is our first snowstorm of the season. First of many, I'm sure, since I live in a crappy state with crappy weather!! NOW I remember why I hate it here so much. It's been snowing all day, all day since before I woke up this morning. Slushy, trees breaking, endless flakes of white pouring and pouring down like...well...something cold and fucking horrible!
At least it's dead at work today. Thank you Columbus. I don't have to walk between buildings nearly so often as on usual Mondays. Of course, that means tomorrow will be double bad. But, for now at least, I'm enjoying the inactivity. I just remembered that they revised the "Employee Handbook" here to include something about not blogging. I've never read the "Employee Handbook", but I got an email about the updates and I remember people asking what "blogging" is. Oh well.
Anyway, I've been cruising around the 'net, hopping from blog to blog. Normally, the only blog I get over to read is Shenry's (find link to right). Reading his blog always makes me want to give up posting here. He's such a damn good writer! After a visit to The Book, my abmition and self confidence withers away like an 80 year old boner when the viagra wears off. But, today I started from his wonderous blog and browsed some of the links that he has to his favorite reads. I found a few gems, particularly one called "gummi" or something to that effect. (will research and post link here) And I realized something important - several of them were fantastic and enjoyable to read, but each of them had an entirely different style. So, now I don't feel so impotent. Maybe it's not that I'm a bad writer. Maybe I just have a different style?
2 comments:
Dude, I love your blogging style. I think you're right about different styles; everybody has their own. You're metaphors and similes are some of the best in the biz (note your 80 year old with boner simile). One of my all-time favorite similes is in the first paragraph of What the Hell Have I Been Up To?. In fact, that entire intro paragraph is pure genius. You also have a talent for taking life's little details --the one's I tend to overlook-- and spinning them into something bigger... like finding a larger truth within the smaller details. Good shit.
I dig the Gummi. That baby mouse post of hers walks a fine line between comedy and tragedy. Brilliant. It's blogs like hers and yours that inspire me. I see shit like Gummi's mouse post and your imagery and think, "Damn, I need to keep working it."
Wow. I can't tell you how much encouragement your comment gave me. Praise from the Great and Powerful Shenry!! Yay!! *^_^*
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