Ah, Christy’s a grand fellow. I’m delighted to see him here on CT. But of course Delirium Tremens is just a song he uses as a vehicle for social satire. For a really fantastic song that’s actually about alcohol (specifically, a dead moonshiner), check out McIlhatton.
Resolutions? I’ve made a few relating to blogging (last year nearly all mine went awry). Here’s a couple:
Accept you’re never going to keep up with someone who blogs full time, like Iain Dale. Aim for a more modest posting schedule, like every other day. You really don’t want to end up repeating the middle chunk of last year and losing the audience you’ve built up through burn out.
Try and get more balance to the topics you write about. At the moment the audience is made up of other left activists and academic/sociology types. The challenge is to make the more political posts, however navel-gazing they may be, interesting to the latter and the stuff on sociology attractive to the former.
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aisling 01.02.08 at 5:17 am
LOL ! Happy New Year !
B.Ennis 01.02.08 at 5:51 am
Thanks for turning me onto this guy.
Mine would be to do more for others!
The Navigator 01.02.08 at 8:28 pm
Ah, Christy’s a grand fellow. I’m delighted to see him here on CT. But of course Delirium Tremens is just a song he uses as a vehicle for social satire. For a really fantastic song that’s actually about alcohol (specifically, a dead moonshiner), check out McIlhatton.
a very public sociologist 01.02.08 at 10:57 pm
Resolutions? I’ve made a few relating to blogging (last year nearly all mine went awry). Here’s a couple:
Accept you’re never going to keep up with someone who blogs full time, like Iain Dale. Aim for a more modest posting schedule, like every other day. You really don’t want to end up repeating the middle chunk of last year and losing the audience you’ve built up through burn out.
Try and get more balance to the topics you write about. At the moment the audience is made up of other left activists and academic/sociology types. The challenge is to make the more political posts, however navel-gazing they may be, interesting to the latter and the stuff on sociology attractive to the former.
Get myself on the Crooked Timber blogroll ;)
bad Jim 01.03.08 at 5:00 am
I liked the Bad Astronomer’s New Year’s Resolution:
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