You may remember me as the blogger whose Spring started with being stranded by a volcano.
I know there’s no excuse for not trashing Jeff Goldstein et al. on a regular basis, but since said volcano, my life has turned into a country song: my wife left me (on a two-month research trip to Italy); my apartment was nearly destroyed in a forest fire; and I was hospitalized overnight with what turned out to be something so painful look what it did to a man much more manly than I … all while being three weeks behind on my teaching. As you’ll note, those are about the only three posts I’ve composed at my place this past month, so it’s not as if I’ve been neglecting you guys in particular—the entire internet has had to suffer my absence (inasmuch as it did) (which is not that much). Why am I telling you this?
Because getting back on the horse is much more difficult than it seems. There’s pressure to return with the perfect post. To make people remember exactly why it is they might have had reason to miss you. But as there’s no such thing as the perfect post, I thought I’d start with one full of excuses and hope that gets me over the hump.
But as there’s no such thing as the perfect post,
This came close though.
Good, even very good blogging, does not require any perfect posts. Welcome back!
I posted this and there was an earthquake. I don’t want to say that the universe is trying to tell me something … but maybe the universe is trying to tell me something.
I thought “pick on Jonah Goldberg” was always the easy post.
You realize that’s, like, five years’ worth of action in Apartment 3G or Rex Morgan, MD?
Good to see you back.
You realize that’s, like, five years’ worth of action in Apartment 3G or Rex Morgan, MD?
I think I’ve aged at least five years the past month.
I thought “pick on Jonah Goldberg” was always the easy post.
Excellent idea! I think he just wrote something incredibly stupid about the World Cup, too.
[...] Goldberg wrote something stupid. It feels like I never left. So what was it this time? I am willing to concede that some conservatives get carried away in [...]