Gee… I haven’t posted anything since 2019 and I’m asking myself why.
I don’t wanna ask myself why because whatever answer I come up with will only leave me frustrated and maybe looking like a tired old man with a stop watch, and I’ll be complaining: “Why can’t I have a regular flip phone? What’s wrong with pancakes? Is there no respect for tradition?”
To keep a short story shorter, I hit some kind of mental/emotional wall with social media and lost interest in the idea that there was something to say to someone or someone else, and, heaven forbid, I didn’t want to spelunk through whatever was rolling downhill in my brain. In all honesty, the downhill rolls were making me yawn… a lot. So I stopped. There was no need to examine anything; I had nothing to prove. I’d leave that to the theorists and alternative-facing influencers of a world thin with not much to say.
Yeah, definitely blogged out for a good while. And theorists and influencers are still a dime a dozen.
Spot, how are you? Besides blogged out. I have not seen you in quite some time. I hope you are doing well. Walter Hutcherson’s Musical Exchange!!!
Gee, it’s amazing what happens when I finally check blog comments! Howdy! This blogging out can do strange things to a man. Life hangs and sometimes swings. Yeehaw.
Spot, you need to keep in touch. How’s life? Are you still producing music and playing? Where are you now? I was going through some pictures and it reminded me of all the great people I have lost contact with. I hope you are doing well and will keep in touch.
When we were young lads, there was a wonderful item for sale called the Chattering Teeth:
https://mcphee.com/products/wind-up-chattering-teeth
My current opinion of so-called “social” media is a collection of tens of millions of these items.
That is really the entire amount of influence.
Of course, when I was a boy, my cruel, heartless, parents forbade the purchase of wonderful items like this.
And, sadly, while doing research for this post, I found that the Johnson Smith company went out of business in 2019. McPhee still seems to be in business, however.
chchchchchchchchchch …
Yep, I remember Archie McPhee well. Never got any chattering teeth tho. About that time someone sent me some Loompanics catalogs clear out of the blue. It’s a mystery, but they were a kick in the conspiracy merry-go-round!