10.29.2007

What a concept!

I just got done listening to a radio interview with A. J. Jacobs. He was fascinating and funny and so I naturally googled him and read some of his blog. I can't wait to read his new book, The Year of Living Biblically. (If I knew how to underline the title I would.)
He sounds like a more feminine David Spade so he has that going for him as well.

The concept of devoting an entire year to an experiment in order to write about it is so foreign to me. I'd love to be able to commit to something like that but if I could condense it into a week it still probably wouldn't be doable for me. Guess that's why I'll never be a serious writer. I can barely commit to this blog. I don't have a problem with committing. I did commit several years to admining Mama-Drama but that was only because I thought I was needed and respected by my fellow admin. In retrospect I should have realized, from past experience, that that was not the case. I was merely "convenient" like certain mods are now. They'll see how important they really are once they are no longer needed, like Andrea.

Hey, maybe I should write a book about the social tapestry of online mama communities and the eat or get eaten mentality that permeates the bid for acceptance and popularity therein. Hmmmmm. They'll never make a movie about it but it's got all the gratuitous sex and violence needed for what passes as entertainment these days. Pole dancing, extramarital relations, domestic violence, divorce, poverty and a soupcon of Pseudo-Christian ethics thrown in for credibility. LOL, NaNoWriMo is write around the corner.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Don't write a book about my life (how sad the only one I *wasn't* able to check off was pole dancing) it's a lot more boring than you'd think. :P

Anonymous said...

"the social tapestry of online mama communities and the eat or get eaten mentality that permeates the bid for acceptance and popularity therein."

ahahaha girl you hit that one on the head. The whole bid for acceptance and popularity thing got old back in junior high didn't it? Sadly not for many we know.