You metabloggers have it easy. You just rant, whine, complain, throw up a YouTube, reprint a newspaper article. You don't have to reveal anything but your self-referential, witty selves.
Being a muse involves much more: I have to be unique, interesting, self-absorbed, dysfunctional. I have to be generating enough struggle in my life to keep metabloggers engaged. Yesterday, I made a feeble attempt to bring in some work struggle. I was scared of getting dooced, so I didn't elaborate. No one metablogged, or even noted what I wrote about anyway. Work struggles. Yawn.
My possible alcoholism got only a wee bit of attention. But alcoholism is so pedestrian. Hardly muse-worthy.
My training program bit the dust. I am horrible shape even though Ottawa is supposed to be one of the great fitness/spandex centres of the world. Not muse-worthy.
I believe I saw the kidney stone/blackberry lavalife man. Remember the one who I suspect stood up two of my friends. He ogled me and my companion, and eventually came over to say hello. I considered pretending to have tourette's syndrome, and having my tick be to shout out "kidney stone" and "blackberry", but I couldn't bring myself to do it. If I were a real muse, I would be doing some field work with this fellow and blogging about it.
4 comments:
Potential doocement, attempted training down the tubes, incipient alcoholism, and short-circuited contemplated dates with pathological predators. Aggie, you're just hittin' your stride.... but you haven't actually acted on more than your cacciatore amore.
Not to say that you need to get fully fired, fat, chronically fried, and fucked up by some fraud, all at once, to keep our interest... you know we tend to go off on these tangents, my museworthy friend.
Your drinking concerns me, and I've cited it once already. We'll get to ya... but don't expect us to be anything less than oblique self-referental wankers. We have a style.
If it's easier to be a metablogger than a muse, why are you posting so much more here than you ever posted on ESI?
Because I'm trying to give you folks something to do.
So what about this Ogler fellow...
tell us more.
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