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Absolve me Blog, for I have Lamed.

Hey folks,

I suppose you’re expecting some big SXSWI post mortom regaling you with ludicrous stories of getting drunk and putting some CEO or somewhat in a headlock.  Or tumbling into a bar booth with some lothario.  Or being the lotharia and sassing with some younger man.  Or providing some geek rundown of my trip and how it was.the.best.ever.

And I could, but I probably won’t.

Why?  A few reasons besides the fact that  — I had a good (but not categorically sweepingly great or epic) time there — was sick for a few days — didn’t kiss nearly as many people as I’d planned — failed to get wildly drunk — didn’t pick any fights with beligerant or stupid ceo’s — and am delightfully affianced and thereby utterly devoted to my honey to have any couger situations,- (but still triggering this blog confession. )
(Absolve me readers, for I have lamed)

Because I think I’ve gotten I know I’ve gotten quite lazy about writing these days.  And blogging.  And putting down my thoughts and digesting projects and creative lists, and transcripting awkward and delightful conversations with my dad, or trying to write v. thoughtful prose or poetry, or social commentary or snark.

I have got an attention span shorter than a fruit fly’s  hardon these days and if it isn’t a brief glance or post on twitter, it’s not something that I’m really registering.

I mean, for gawdsakes people, how lazy do you have to be to only produce regular writing in 17 syllables.

Oh that’s right. You have to get *MJ* lazy.

And I’ve been more focused on regular real world connections vs. online ones.

Which means that I’ve fallen *waaaaay* behind on reading up on blogs.

Or watching vids online.  Or posting comments to thoughtful things that I see produced by my friends.

Or writing on the other locations online (Blogher) (8Asians) where I should be writing *something*.

Keeping connected online is something that’s become simultaneously easier and more exhausting at consynchronous junctions.

I mean - on day to day vibes/landscapes or the general pulse of life for my friends, twitter is fantastic.  It’s immediate and ubiquitous and doesn’t involve much personal investment mentally, time, and is device/platform/client destination agnostic. 

But at the same time - keeping connected is v. v. difficult and exhausting.

There’s reading people’s main blogs and then you read their project’s blogs and maybe even their work blog if they’re responsible for that as well and then don’t forget about their private blogs and then viewing their produced media online whether it’s in photos or videos or audio and podcasts (breathe huff gasp) and then you’re checking in and peeping at their mainstream social networks for announcements & updates because of course they added something to their facebook wall or commented on your MySpace profile or updated a blog post on friendster that you should also check into (breathe huff gasp) and god forbid they have an updated profile on consumating because oh wait didn’t you read that twitter saying that they were newly single again or something…oh fuck no, that was a dodgeball shout or maybe that was someone else with the same name that you met for 10 minutes at a conference and they added you as a friend so you feel socially obliged to add them too because well they bought you beer and you would like to not be “that ingrate” that they refer to as being the asshole of whatever event you met at (breathe huff gasp) and then what if they also have a del.icio.us account and you want to keep tabs on the cool things that your friends, as trusted trend/niftycool sources are up to and if they’re into gaming let’s not forget that you have to make sure that your various toons and their alts are connected via their own social network and then what if you need to see who in your community of friends/contacts/acquaintances and as-yet-unmet-neighbhors are putting something clever & fascinating & worth knowing about right about your neighbhorhood on Yelp or Yahoo Local and you realize that ProfileLinker isn’t quite there enough yet to take care of really making your social network online as solid as it should be wonder why you haven’t picked up a newspaper in a few months or so (breathe huff gasp) and don’t even get me started at the effort it takes to juggle and update a social calendar that includes everything from evite to boardnetwork meetings to upcoming.org and to renkoo and then to check my friends’ 30boxes and local arts organizations newsletters and that wedding  invitation that you got in the mail and at some point in all of this you come to the shocking and stunning realization that your best friend from highschool has faithfully and kindly sent you postcards (hand written) every week telling you about the joyful and sweet daily activities of her and her family and you realize that you’ve not written her back, barely scribbled a one sentence email to her and HAVEN’T CALLED HER YET TO TELL HER THE GORY AND JUICE DETAILS ABOUT BECOMING ENGAGED. (hyperventilate and black out)

So yeah.

There’s a little bit of that in the reasons why I haven’t blogged lately.

Because, frankly - having people over for thai food and playing warcraft feels like the seriously easy way out.

Sorry.

Please forgive.

MJ, you are allowed to have a life off the net. And no-on can help getting sick. But I’m not sure I can let you off for not having one screamingly drunk night at SXSW. Please do better next year on that front

This is exactly how I feel about everything web these days.

[…] It is much easier to not care at all than it is to try and manage everything. Managing that microcosm of sites is becoming more and more increasingly difficult. My attention span has dwindled to the point where I won’t even bother clicking things anymore. I barely read through all my feeds these days. I’ve become extremely picky about what I do decided to click and read. It has to be meaningful in some way or have some lasting impact. […]

you should also check out spokeo.com as a way to connect with your friends

Can you get that guy who did the Micromachines commercials in the 80s to read this post?

John Moschitta, I think is his name.

Hello everybody. I’m new here and it seems fascinating.