Comments on: I hate this blog

By: cruelanimal

cruelanimal — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 00:55:41 +0000

I know how you feel. Sometimes I hate my blog and want to quit, too. Facing another post is like making the rounds on a cancer ward some days. Everything often seems overwhelming and useless.

But you’re a gifted, insightful writer — and every lost voice makes that daily walk through the ward a little worse…and then the madness of the world becomes a bit more insufferable. I’d hate to see an empty space here.

Poet Maxine Kumin once said: “All poetry is political. All politics are personal.”

And, hey, maybe a five-week vacation is what blog doctor ordered. I hear it’s the sport of kings.

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 05:02:47 +0000

A stunningly powerful post. Please don’t quit. We need you. It’s okay to merge the personal and the political when the latter so impacts the former. We have no choice, do we?

Take care –

By: Tish G

Tish G — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 02:34:26 +0000

I”m glad you decided to keep your blog, idyll…and, you are right to think of it in terms of being not just commentary but also a chronolgy or memoir for your son. When most of us are fleabloggers in the Technorati Long Tail, we have to sometimes consider what we are doing and why. It isn’t always about getting large numbers of readers, or elevating our blog’s status to that of The Huffington Post, but more for the stories of our times and for the conversations around those stories….

Would you believe I ran a rave back in the early days of raving some 15 or so years ago? Yes, little old neurotic me ran a rave with a bunch of friends. I was very disappointed when, well after I got out of it, ecstacy became a major part of raving. Raving did stop being the all-night natural-high feel-up parties that they started out as. Still, there is no reason to send a SWAT team into a rave. Why not send a SWAT team into one of those lovely Spring Break gatherings at Daytona Beach (which are, I might add, far worse)? It seems that Rebellion and Free Expression are fine, as long as they are the accepted forms thereof.

By: Jim McCulloch

Jim McCulloch — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:47:38 +0000

Plus, you’re a good writer, and a thoughtful voice.

By: Jim McCulloch

Jim McCulloch — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:44:26 +0000

I can understand your desire to kill your blog. I have a blog myself, and occasionally consider ending it. (The blog, not everything.) But if I didn’t have a blog, I’m afraid I would read or see the same horrible stuff on the web as I do now, and feel just as bad about it. The collective left blogosphere probably does do some good in the world, even if, say, mine, individually, does not. Yours is well researched and informative, and often has stuff in it people would never see, and which needs to be documented.
Keep it up if you can.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:45:59 +0000

I like your blog. I can understand why you don’t, because one of the things I like about reading you is your willingness to write about the painful things, the uncertain things. It’s got to be terrifying to be raising a child in this crazy world. I hope I can do something to make what you’re writing and agonizing about things of the past for him.

By: steve

steve — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:09:20 +0000

It does suck, you know, keeping up with all this, but you can also just back off and blog maybe 2 or 3 times per week.

I like what you are doing. Its well written and thoughtful.

By: Jay Taber

Jay Taber — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 18:51:15 +0000

I, too, need to leave the chronicling of demise mostly to others so inclined, and find it acceptable to honor those making noble sacrifices in order that I might pursue more joyful encouragements. There will always be warriors willing to do battle with what we call evil, but they in turn require guidance, healing, and varieties of support that only caring elders can provide. The elders also need to take care of each other, especially in the troubles to come.