In response to overwhelming popular demand, I am going to try to post a bit more often. OK, so the demand wasn't overwhelming. Still, the fact that anyone would bestir her ass to request more regular updates makes me feel loved.
I could have been posting all along, but instead (when I can), I spend a lot of time checking other peoples' posts and letting them lead me to interesting places. And I had one such experience today.
My dear friend Jodi did something she seldom does (no, not wake up in the same bed twice in a row, silly!). She left her "Comments" feature on for one day, and predictably - because her site is one of the most deservedly popular blogs on the face of the planet - there were dozens of responses. Including one from Jodi's friend and lunch partner Kyria.
Jodi's forever extolling Kyria's virtues, so I went to her website and found some very crisp and hilarious writing - Kyria's a New York comedian with some really keen and funny observations. And as I went through her site, I discovered a kind of buried treasure.
They're called "Stories for the Hopeless Romantic" - I've yet to divine the logic of the title, but one day it will become clear, I'm sure. Ten exquisite pieces (there are actually 11, but one is "removed for editing") about childhood and early adulthood as a Jehovah's Witness. Insights and observations that are by times achingly funny and by other times wrenchingly poignant.
It's a view of a world so few of us know, written with grace, elegance, wit, and style. Check it out. You'll be richer for it.
Well, it takes one to know one ... or two. ThanQ, dearest Niiiils!
Posted by: Jodi | April 02, 2004 at 11:11 PM
Anyone else hear the sound of crickets? Or notice the tumbleweeds tumblin' across this ghost town of a blog?
I ask this knowing full well that I kept an AOL account open (and paying for) for about 18 years in case I ended up in Lower Slombokovia with a dire need for dial-up access. You still paying for a similar privilege?
BTW, Nils, I am joking. (Sad that I need to point that out...)
Posted by: Davey | April 09, 2004 at 09:42 AM
I've had ample opportunity to review some of your electronic thoughts as posted here. Let me also bestir my own backside and request that you continue with your postings. Your insight and humor shame my own paltry attempts. Consider myself taken to task and at your feet ready to learn from the master himself...
Also, as I'm 33, I want to know more of what to expect from the decrepifying effects that time may decide to visit upon me.
Posted by: Thomas | April 19, 2004 at 04:44 PM