After excellent steak and Guinness pie with Sirdan at Bar Cleveland, great on a cold Sunday, I now get back to running through my blog roll.
- Yowch… by Legal Eagle on Skeptic Lawyer certainly has that effect…
- 32lbs of Rump Steak will return 1 July 2008 says Simon Bedak, leaving what is probably not a self-portrait. Not sure where his archives went…
- Israel’s Arabic Purge? on Shalom Rev is about a development in Israel the Rabbi is very uncomfortable about — with good reason.
- Mightier Than the Sword – The Impact of the Ideas of Thomas Paine on the American Revolution is the latest on Renegade Eye.
- 55 maxims is Shalom’s most recent, from the beginning of June.
- Queer Penguin is in hiatus, it seems: The Talk late in May is the most recent entry.
I know I’ve probably taken you for granted too long blog – and I don’t like to think of my future without you in it in some capacity. I just think it’s better if we stay friends for now. And you know, the best thing about quality friendships is you can let the channels of communication slide for days, months, even years – but that moment you finally get around to catching up, it feels like only yesterday that you were hanging out together. Quality time over quantity time and all that.
Please don’t take it personally – I promise you we’re not the only couple going through this. It happens to the best of bloggers/blogs. There’s Dave & House – I think they’re pretty much over now, and you know how tight they were once. Sam’s pretty much dumped Culture for Junior (I don’t see myself doing that with you though – I’m a one-blog guy). And the munkey and non-turtle have gone pretty quiet too. On the plus side, Ms C’s back, and I know you’ve missed her, haven’t you? Yeah, me too.
I just don’t feel I can keep up anymore. It’s like you want me to be a Jeremy or Jacob and just keep bashing them out to you, but you know deep down I’ve never really been that disciplined.
Oh, don’t bring Facebook into this, this has nothing to do with him. Our relationship was cooling long before I met Face. I’m not dumping you for Face, we’re just good friends, OK?…See you soon blog, I hope. Miss you.
QP xx
- Hatred Of Al-Jazeera Surfaces In Liberal Vermont reports The Kashmiri Nomad; always good to see yourself as others see you, don’t you think?
- Wheels (or not) from Mike in Tasmania is most amusing.
What would you say counts as an “old car”? Some people who trade in theirs every two years may think that five years is old. Until about a decade ago, I was still driving a 1963 Toyota Tiara — I only stopped using it because it began refusing to turn left.
Since then I’ve been driving a 1980 Toyota T-18 and it’s been pretty reliable. But this year it’s been developing a few problems and I’ve been meaning to get it looked at. This week I finally took it in…
- Poem: Two Singers by Kodak (Ernest O’Farrell) on Perry Middlemiss’ Matilda is an Australian poem from 1920 which I’d never seen before; I have read short stories by Kodak.
- Rabbits on Adrian Neylan’s Man of Lettuce — my very favourite right-wing blog — tells of one not so good morning in this Sydney cabbie’s life. (Lord Malcolm put me onto this blog, by the way.)
So many blogs, such variety, even in my own small selection. More later…
