Weddings and Toothaches

One of my oldest friends from Halifax has an excellent blog that I don't read enough- Weddings and Toothaches- a mix of normal blog stuff like Thai hippos eating dwarves and stuff, and excellent recipes from her experiences as a chef (She made that ballerina cake! Wow!)

Blogging, biking and group thought

Why is it that when the whole discussion of transportation comes to the blog sphere I always hear unanimous approval and support for bicycles and bike lanes in Montreal? This link from the Montreal Metroblog is a case in point- the city is finally going to link downtown to Westmount- but at what expense to the taxpayer?



I don't agree wholeheartedly that cyclists should get more lanes until their numbers start following the rules of the road a bit better. Like, all the rules- wearing helmets, coming to full stops OUTSIDE of the crosswalks- like back three feet where that THICK WHITE LINE IS YOU STINKING HIPPY. Not riding the wrong way down one way streets- crap like that.

But anyway... what percentage of bloggers are bicyclists? How about video game designers? Professional PHP or PCP or WTF programmers? Why is everyone all up about Net-freedom? Hasn't anyone heard of Homeland Security? (LOL)

Am I just sampling blogs that I think will agree [or will be likely to agree] with my own personal world view or is there really a lack of diversity in the blog sphere, here and outside of Montreal.

If I ever actually get to one of these YULblog things I might suggest to some of my friends we each go out and try to find ONE Montreal blogger who holds radically different opinions than we/they do- then invite them as our guest to the next one, intro them around to the room and see the fireworks go off.

(note the new tags- I'll be writing a lot on hyperreality and postmodernity over the next couple of weeks since I just loaded the correct spelling into my Firefox dictionary)

So- I'm back

After 2 years :)- why you may ask.

I guess the main reason was I was dating someone who had a stalker ex-boyfriend. He knew who both of us were online and someone had tried to hack into her blog at one point- so we both seriously curtailed our online blogging to a certain extent. I also thought that the blog may become a liability in my pursuit of employment in my field and took it completely off-line for a while.

I missed it. I think she missed it more. I bought her a journal to write in but never saw her use it except maybe when we were fighting, or broken up. I liked her blog a lot. I liked mine, too- it was one of my last creative hobbies that I had time to do, that didn't cost anything.

A new acquaintance of mine asked me the other night, "Why put your diary on-line? What do you write about?" Well, anything- everything- Why?- posterity? LOL A hope to light some candle of "me"-ness in the vast hinterland of the internet? I don't really know why.

For those of you that are back, it's going to be a lot different, I think, this time around. My life is a lot different.

And yes, I will stop posting song lyrics. When your heart is broken, every pop song will seem to be about you- kinda like Billy Bragg says in...there I go again.

Thanks