flare post: "tubes"

One of the things I'm learning, as a blogger, is that it's a lot harder than it seems. Those of you (he says, as if the audience is listening at all) who read Brant's awesome blog know what I'm talking about. He cranks out some good stuff all'a time.

I know, it seems like he's just brilliant off the top of his head, but that's not true! That kind of cavalier brilliance requires *hours* of work on Brant's part. He can't just pull that.. er.. wait. We're off topic.

Anyway, Brant's blog is so good that the people at the Sun Sentinel sneak in at night and steal it for op ed pieces--"Woden it be nice" (you have to page down a few entries). That's how good it is. (except they exclude the phrase, "That's pretty much not cool" which makes the whole piece, imho)

Another brilliant blog example? I don't know if anybody in the aforementioned fictitious audience is aware of a currently popular song which contains liberal use of the word "hump".. but here is a GEM.

One other thing I'm learning is that, if you don't blog pretty much every day, sometimes multiple times, everybody stops reading.

"No," you say, "we don't stop reading because there's not a new post every day, we stop reading because there *is*, and they stink."

Well, you know what? Shut it. That's what.

Now... obviously, all of these brilliant bloggers cannot be on their game ever day. Presumably (although that may be a bad move) they have like, jobs and stuff, and in interest of not being summarily dismissed, they occassionally just have to fire a "flare" post.

Like this one.

Which was going to a be about amp tubes, and replacement speakers, because I didn't have anything worthwhile to say. But it isn't.

Maybe next time.