Hey-la-day-la My Blog Is Back1
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DrHGuy’s Suck It Up, Snap Out Of It, Get On With Life Campaign
Since the death of a loved one early in June, my waking hours have been characterized by despondency, aimlessness, and lassitude. As a result, I have published only a few posts on the Heck Of A Guy blog during this period and none in the last three weeks.
Now, however, as part of my general effort to resynchronize my life with what other sentient human beings consider real time, I plan to begin blogging again.
So, those of you concerned about the future of American belles-lettres can cease waiting to exhale and, in fact, breathe a sigh of relief.
I’m headed back to the keyboard in part because the sporadic laudatory email or comment consequent to a well-received post has reliably produced in me an altogether pleasing, narcissism-enhancing effect. Heck, I’m even gratified when one of my buddies, someone who would, for example, unhesitatingly assist me in disposing of smoking guns, corpses in rigor mortis, and other incriminating evidence, professes to be amused or impressed by my scribblings. Yes, indeed, I’m willing to accept - unquestioningly - a mercy compliment.
But, the more fundamental motivation for sharpening my quills or, for the literal minded, booting up my antiquated Dell Inspiron and unleashing the WordPress software the software, is that singers sing, actors act, and writers write - or, at least, bloggers blog.
And it certainly appears that I am, God forgive me, a blogger.
The Same But Different
Two factors are essential to the authorship of literature, whatever the genre, era, or format: time and money.
In this case, I lack sufficient quantities of both elements. It is discouragingly rare, for example, to receive an envelope stuffed with handfuls of cash as compensation for a well written post about George Washington Carver, Anjani, Allan Truax, broomcorn, Leonard Cohen, ketchup decantation, or my mother’s walls and walls of collectibles. Consequently, unless I can finagle a scam to rake in some bucks from my idiosyncratic displays of literary prowess, photo-faking, and footnoted snarkiness, I face the soul-draining prospect of earning an honest dollar.
And, as it turns out, I have a lot going on these days.
More about that later.
For now, I just want to alert readers that the number and size of Heck Of A Guy posts are almost certain to diminish with the final look evolving over time. Regardless, I suspect today’s readers will still recognize my posts.
Credit Due Department: The nifty Heck Of A Guy word cloud atop this post was generated by The Wordle Web Site
Footnotes
_____________________- With apologies to The Angels, The Raveonettes, Nikka Costa, The Jersey Boys, Stacie Orrico, and the many, many others who have made “My Boyfriend’s Back” an enduring pop music hit.↩
