Favourite posts - this blog’s appropriately named
December 30th, 2005 by Bill
I liked the idea of a list of favourite posts – not the blogosphere’s, but those of my own. The idea was suggested by Neil’s blog and Brooke’s. So I made a list of my favourite posts from the last year. (It’s over there in the right column.)
I discovered something when I compiled the list, however. I discovered I wrote about the indignity of having an ass over and over. In fact, three of the ten posts I listed (chronologically) were about bums and/or shit – that’s 30%!
I wonder what a therapist would make of that? Personally, I think it’s because the humour appeals to me. As Cary Grant said once about his comedies, no matter how dignified a fellow may be, at least two or three times every day something happens to him – slipping on a banana or some such thing – and the dignity goes out the door. And that’s funny.
However, of the posts I put up my favourite, hands down, is Can you hear me now? It’s about why we blog. (I may re-order this list to something that reflects how I rate them rather than chronological.)
I think the other two I liked were Arriving where we started and The Dancing Man. They may not be written as well or as completely as I would have liked, but the thoughts behind them made them favourites.
I also noticed I wrote a lot of pointless, crappy posts. But that’s the way of things, isn’t it? As Theodore Sturgeon once said, “90 percent of everything is crud.”
Tag: Blogging, Favorite posts, How to become an idiot
