Someone is WRONG on the Internet (but for the next few weeks I don’t care)
This post serves less as a public announcement than as a private means of self-commitment with added dollops of embarrassment should I renege, that I am not going to be blogging for the next few weeks (except perhaps one post to introduce a guest blogger), so as to get the damn book that I am writing finally done and ready. When you read me again, all going well, I should have a bouncing 350-page-or-so manuscript to announce. I reserve the right to change my mind in the case of truly dire exigencies – but they will have to be truly dire.
posted on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Good luck and Godspeed.
And if your return to blogging is marked by a sudden plethora of perfectly-crafted posts about all major events of the intervening weeks, you will not have been fooling anyone.
Didn’t expect an xkcd reference on this blog, but I’m glad to see one.
I am not going to be blogging for the next few weeks
Harry, I think you might be WRONG.
Christian, do you think you’ll get Henry back if you call him by the wrong name?
Oops. Well, I’m sure Harry is as wrong as Henry. But it does turn out I’m wrong, too. It’s so much wrongness, Henry won’t be able to resist.
Didn’t expect an xkcd reference on this blog, but I’m glad to see one.
That particular comic has been linked/cited so many times in various CT comments threads that I could practically quote the dialog by memory.
GOOD!
In case that was a request for me to fill Henry’s shoes, I demur. I’m sure, however, that all other CTers will see this post as a challenge.
d in the case of truly dire exigencies – but they will have to be truly dire.
Let’s say Maureen Dowd threatens to write a column devoted to trivializing and emasculating Brack Obama unless within 24 hours you personally write a blog post here praising the deep insights in Doug Feith’s book. You’d come back and write that post, right? I think it wise to think through all of the hypotheticals, one percent doctrine and all that.
Good luck, Henry. Now, go back to your book. You haven’t got much time for reading either,do you? :-)
I Envy you that you only need a few weeks to finish a book. I wish I was that close! I hope the final work goes as painless and quickly as possible. Best of Luck! And in the meantime I will try to reduce my own list of deadlines asap so as to be able to blog again. Or perhaps another way of dealing with time scarcity is to take deadlines less seriously? Oops…
Gweat, so now I have to wait weeks fow my comments to be Ewmew Fudd diawecticized? I knew those wewe just empty pwomises, as usuaw.
Good luck with that.
I give it a 3 days, tops.