Friday, August 29, 2008

Blogback

Greetings from London. Celebrating the one year anniversary of my tepid entry into the blogosphere, I decided to make my triumphant return. This was motivated the many promises I’ve made to start writing about this new life in London as well as a certain laziness that prevents me from typing out the email addresses of you, my wonderfully procrasturbatory friends.

Blogging does have its disadvantages. As I’ve demonstrated in the past (http://web.mit.edu/gfischer/www/travel.htm), I lack the skill to entertain with warm and fuzzy travel stories. However, with some sarcasm and acerbity I might be able to keep you interested. Or at least sufficiently interested to take a few minutes away from filing your expense report or writing your dissertation. Who am I kidding: mean can be funny. But blogs are awfully public and internet caches live forever. Someday, someone somewhere may consider hiring me for a position of authority—more than this university professor gig, which is really just a lark—and they’ll stumble across my views on the fecal slurry that seems to cover half of India or the tight-arsed smugness that greeted me in Moscow and think, “Do we really want this guy’s finger on the button?”

But after careful deliberation, laziness trumped caution. I considered the possibility of censoring myself—treating the amusing idiocy around me with kid gloves—but then why bother reading? Or writing for that matter?

No. The truth will set us free. And so truth it is. As goes the joke about Australian foreplay: “Brace yourself, Sheila.”

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