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Dreadful Nonsense

"I've read your blog. it's really funny. you should write a column." - Jon Ronson

Apparently, a lot of people with weblogs read a lot of other people’s weblogs, and the polite - nay, almost official - thing to do is to link to everyone else’s, and then they’ll link back, and then we’ll all become on great big happy clique.

Unfortunately, just getting words up on the screen here is something that is achieved through hours of sweat and torment, so linkage might still be just beyond my grasp. I have also tried having a look round the interweb to find some other weblogs that I might like to link to, should I ever discover how to. I couldn’t find any. No, to clarify - I couldn’t find any I wanted to link to. Is that unbearably snobbish of me? I just can’t seem to get into the whole world of wanting to read about what anybody else thinks on a regular basis. So it’s probably arrogance on an extreme level that I think anyone in the world would care about what I say. Which is why it was probably a big mistake to submit the URL of this site to the weblog review, a site that rates and reviews English language weblogs. They’re bound to use the words “self indulgent” and “rubbish” in relation to this nonsense, particularly now that I’ve baited them in to it. I’ve really only done it in an attempt to feel like I’m not just talking to myself here. We’ll see what comes of that.

In other news, I thought of yet another thing to add to the list of things that I don’t do. I don’t eat meat, because I’m a vegetarian. I don’t smoke, because I gave up 9 months ago. I don’t drink alcohol (much) because it makes me feel sick. I don’t eat eggs or dairy products for much the same reason. I don’t buy Nestle products, or eat in McDonalds, Pret a Manger or Starbucks, because they are evil destroyers of the earth. I don’t do drugs, because I’m afraid I might die. And now, because I obviously don’t suffer enough, I don’t take the bus anywhere.

This came about because I’ve decided I don’t walk enough, and I realised that it would have the added bonus of being environmentally friendly. For some reason, I have decided to take the worries of the world upon myself, and try to do everything possible that you are told to do that will stop the world from spinning off it’s axis and everyone around us being killed and/or maimed by mutant flying things made up of the rubbish we don’t recycle, or something. To this end I buy the The Big Issue, email President Bush to ask him to stop blowing up the world, stick “Stop Esso” stickers to fly posters, shake my head despairingly at the news and give money to as many different charities as I can find. Even with doing all of this, I still feel that I am responsible for most of the debt in the Third World.

Am I taking life too seriously?

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