Wednesday, August 20, 2008

I Kinda Suck as a Guest Poster

There are reasons why people don’t ask me to guest post on their blogs.

A) I send them my post and then forget to link to the guest post from my site. This is kinda unforgivable in the blog-ity world, which as well all know is fueled by links, Red Bull and longing.

B) I ask, “what should I write about?” and the guest posting requesting blogger says, “Just be yourself, it’ll be great!” which sends me into a spiral of self-doubt, shame and self-loathing such that I can only calm down after eating an entire tub of cookie dough ice cream, a whole package of Twizzlers, hours of aimless “procrasti-surfing” on Wikipedia, YouTube or Hulu and then puking for days. (I do this instead of regular therapy and it’s proven to be the least healthy and effective thing I’ve ever done in my life. I should stop doing that.)

C) People rarely ask me. (This is probably the largest reason, if I had to be honest with myself, I suppose.)

Anyway, I’m a bad blog citizen (and a bad husband and father and generally a bad person and oh hell, WHERE IS THE ICE CREAM? WE ARE OUT! I HAVE TO GO TO THE STORE, be right back), but I’m rectifying that now. Many of you are probably landing here at Ransom Note Typography HQ from here, where I spewed a little thing the other night. Brenda is a peach.

And though you will wonder why after you read it, you might also be interested in a post I scribbled in crayon over at my good (and patient) friend Loralee‘s site. It’s about BlogHer 08, so it’s about 1400 years old in “web time.” (i.e., last month). Loralee, over my not terribly strident objections has convinced me that I simply must go to BlogHer next year, which I’ll probably do. I’ll be one of the twelve guys in a crowd of 1000 women, wondering exactly what I’ve gotten myself into. And trying not to be “creepy bearded guy” and instead be “non-threatening, cuddly beard guy.”

I have a year or so to work on that.

1. As I said over there, you SLAY me.

   Definitely non-creepy.

   Posted by Loralee  on  08/20/08  at  10:29 AM

2. I think you would just about THE most fun person to hang with at BlogHer.

   Look me up next year-- I’m planning on going next year-- for the first time.  EEK!

   Posted by Jenni  on  08/20/08  at  10:49 AM

3. If you suck as a guest poster, it must be opposite day.

   Posted by SAJ  on  08/21/08  at  07:09 AM

4. Wow, I think we were separated at birth, at least when it comes to guest posting. A, B, and C all apply to me, but especially B. How did you know?

   Posted by Lori  on  08/21/08  at  08:31 AM

5. Dude,
   The ice cream and Twizzlers are a staple at my house.  Basically for my writing fits and for my wife during my writing fits…

   Posted by Mike  on  08/22/08  at  11:10 AM

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