«
»

Twelve ways not to blog while in crisis mode

1. Forget you have a blog.

2. Start a three part series and only post part one.

3. Crash your hard drive and lose two months worth of post drafts.

4. Listen to emo rock until the paint peels off all your dark elf figurines and the only posts you can write are the ones that begin with the phrase “Dear World.”

5. Post a poll about what you did on your vacation, even if it wasn’t a vacation and you really don’t want to talk about it.

6. Forget other people have blogs. In fact, forget blogs exist at all and be completely stunned when you accidentally click on that button on your Google home page that says “reader” and discover some five thousand unread posts.

7. Read a print media opinion piece on the destruction of ‘high culture’ by evil, egalitarian bloggers, and almost believe it, just for a second.

8. Teach a seminar on blogging, hand out your card, then add in a tiny voice: “but, um, remember all that stuff I said about updating on a regular basis? well…”

9. Post a gleeful “return to blogging” announcement and then forget to return to blogging.

10. Better yet, make the cat post it!

11. Reintroduce yourself to the world of blogging with a photo retrospective — on the day your hard drive goes belly up and you can’t access all your archived photos.

12. Wait till your third wedding anniversary to post because at least then you’ve got an excuse to include a pretty picture:

Three years ago today

  • del.icio.us
  • Digg
  • email
  • Facebook
  • Furl
  • Ma.gnolia
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati
  • TwitThis

This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 at 3:50 pm and is filed under metabelly. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

7 Responses to “Twelve ways not to blog while in crisis mode”

  1. Kalyn on June 26th, 2007 at 4:57 pm says:

    Happy Anniversary, but please come back. Whatever are you doing with all you time? Is there really life other than blogging?

  2. Kathy on June 26th, 2007 at 6:16 pm says:

    Happy Anniversary to you both! As for forgetting to blog….well….um….no comment :-P

  3. 2-minute Noodle Cook on June 27th, 2007 at 2:43 am says:

    Happy anniversary! I missed the second anniversary of my blog, while caught up with the real world behind the small screen :)

  4. Kimberly on June 27th, 2007 at 7:31 pm says:

    Happy, happy anniversary, Miz D and Dave! Wishing you a joyful fourth year of marriage.

  5. Rosa on June 29th, 2007 at 7:00 am says:

    Happy anniversary!
    Yes, please do come back! I miss your posts…

  6. Jill on June 30th, 2007 at 9:23 pm says:

    Happy anniversary to you and wishing you many many more happy anniversaries in the future. -Jill-
    p.s. Thats a lovely wedding picture!

  7. Mrs D on July 1st, 2007 at 6:17 pm says:

    Thanks, everyone!

    I’m told the third anniversary is the “Leather Anniversary” and we’ll, um, leave it at that. (I will say that we found a great Lebanese restaurant for our anniversary dinner and went absolutely Mezza Crazy. Yum Yum Yum. And cheap, too!)