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An experiment for a column I wrote about blogging back in December 2001. All these years later, I haven't been able to kick the habit.
If it's called Daily Blah, how come you don't ... hey, wait, you're writing every day!
See? Told you I'd try harder.
Mister, you talk funny. Are you one of them furrners?
Why yes I am, as it happens. I was born, raised and educated in Great Britain. I've been living in the U.S. since 1996 and identify as British.
I say, old chap, you forgot the "u" in "colour."
No I didn't. I may identify as British, but I am also an American journalist writing for an American audience about mostly American issues. These two different sides of me are a constant source of tension. Nevertheless, Daily Blah will adhere to American English grammar and spelling.
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Daily Blah for... Thursday, April 10, 2003
Go, Stuff, and Multiply
Where did all this stuff come from? Why am I not seeing light at the end of my packing tunnel? Why do I keep opening closets and finding new things I never knew I had? Did I really buy that many khakis, or are my clothes sneakily mutliplying behind my back? Is it something to do with Spring? (I should have known it was a bad idea leaving those suave and elegant trousers and those racy jeans to get better aquainted).
More likely, my stuff quotient has now simply outpaced my poor overworked brain's ability to categorize and cross-reference it all. This makes sense. The older we get, the less brain cells we have, and the more things we acquire (an with all the passwords and account numbers and user names we're required to remember in this postmodern life, it's a wonder we have any memory left over). This is one of those cruel ironies of life, like losing your beauty sleep in order to attain wealth so that when you're old and wrinkled you can use your wealth to attain beauty. Personally, I'd be all for annual government inspections that measured how many functioning memory cells we have, calculated how much stuff we could feasibly remember having, and took the balance away from us to give to charity. Why not? We'd never know the difference.
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