w.atching the w.orld unw.ind

Talking Heads "Once in a lifetime"

This august and diverse body unwittingly introduced me to my first blogger - still one of the most interesting of my daily reads.

Others followed randomly, being at times thought – provoking and often consistently entertaining (though the postage by this SagaMaster is rapidly reducing my daily average of “Sites visited during the lunch hour”). In turns, my links access output which is manic, mildly morose or just plain scary. Some provide occasionally incomprehensible information (but nonetheless are still regular reads). Others are, in the nicest possible sense, inclined to eccentricity, sub-consciously? constructing persona as guilelessly as a geisha applying her mask of make-up.

A few make you feel protective (when they’re home) or whimsical. One or two have found niches, cheerfully dispensing virtual refreshment of a Friday afternoon (though there are muttered rumours about retirement from the catering industry) or providing actual interactivity. A couple often produce work which is sometimes so outlandish and lurid that you emit “No, wheee” (a particularly Pompeyan expression, that). Many merit remuneration – though not from me; my cashflow problems are legion and legendary.

You will all know who you are (but can you resist linking?).

Yet throughout all of my regulars, there seems to be a common, ‘Ebay-ethos’ theme of honesty? In the public medium that is Blogworld, sheer fantasy would be a wasted topic for blogging – it’s a purely personal thing, so there’s no point sharing (except with other like-minded consenting adults, of course). But as with all auctions, you don’t need to sell out every one of your possessions.

My nascent blog will be similar in its degree of self-exposure and until I can work out how to incorporate those clever little boxes which contain the “100 things you desperately needed to know about me but couldn’t be ar5ed to ask” , you’ll get what I give you.

It means that the reminiscences playing in my head, like a video-taped film, can be re-scheduled into a different timeframe from their original premiere, but
a) you won’t know; and
b) you won’t really care.
So that’s Ok then.

Right – that’s everyone on my linkrack double-blogvertised today, so that’ll be an Archer apiece. After all, we don’t want these kind souls getting their mitts on my ill-gotten, do we?