Innarnet Crap

May 23, 2007

The past summers I read books until my eyesight became the blurry, sorry mess it is now. I'd wake up in the morning and grab a book from a pile freshly bought from Booksale, eat lunch with it and say goodbye to it in the afternoon for another literary affair. My mom would go after my ass in a bad way when I refuse to leave the bed to do chores because I'm too busy reading, too busy living in another universe with castles and pink aliens and other romantic things like death. Ah. Those were the days.

 

When I got really tangled up in the innarnets, my attention span became too short for anything as time-consuming as a novel. I'd spend my time in front of the computer for hours on end trolling The Man Blog forums and chatting with my online friends. And blogging. So my diet of books was replaced by innarnet crap. And hooey what do you know, all those chat sessions and forum and blog posts actually did something reading can only partially do: I began writing better. And getting a, hang on, a sense of humor! Just smile along please. Yay.

 

So. I'm going to do a little whoring here and talk about blogs that do not make me feel bad about giving up books for the interwubs. They're intellectually stimulating reads; I appreciate good writing when I come across it.

 
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