The Ubiquitous "Why I Haven't Been Blogging" Blog

Don't get me wrong, I love the internets.

The way it's gradually transformed since its birth from a top-down communication tool for businesses to reach consumers into a topless and bottomless (just like the strip clubs in Montreal, or so I've been told) full-fledged interactive network where the collective intelligence (or lack thereof) of the entire globe is transmitted in an endless feedback loop is, to put it simply, fucking dope. Blogs, wikis, message boards -- I will go on record as officially endorsing their existence. A controversial position, I know.

But here's the thing most people don't talk about: keeping up with the blog-reading demands of this new world (wide web) order is like, super hard and stuff. For real, though. Especially if, like me, you enjoy having friends and maintaining gainful employment.

Which leads us here, on this very blog, to the now-officially cliche territory of the Blog Post About Why I Haven't Been Blogging Which Will Likely Not Be Read By Many People Because Not Many People Actually Read This Blog Except My Friends.

We've all seen these diatribes before. Maybe we've written one. They're the 21st century equivalent of explaining to our neighbors why we haven't been to church recently (suggested explanation: God created the world, cruelty exists in the world, therefore maybe God is cruel, hard to reconcile this troubling dichotomy, been eating waffles at home on Sundays in protest of mean-ass God). These rambling lists of excuses for absence from the blog world are usually the following: presumptious, self-involved, boring and (most importantly) endearingly human. Here's my attempt.

Reasons I haven't blogged lately:

Been writing this and the follow up to this

Been reading books about this and this and this

Been watching this and this

So there you have it. Mystery finally revealed. You can and should blame real estate, rock music, the new digital economy, grad school, John Locke and the NBA.

Just don't blame me; I love the internets.