Luadable Links #1

I am SHAMELESSly stealing this excellent concept from Byzantium Shores author Jaquandor, who offers intriguing weekly blog snippets in his Sentential Posts. Mitigating circumstances: 1) I've been meaning to copy this idea for months now; and 2) I do feel some shame.

The first post is the hardest.  How do you write "Hey, check me out!" and still come off as cool?  Beginnings and endings have always been hard for me to write.  I can't seem to get started, and once going, to then end gracefully and satisfactorily.  But I'm great at middles.  I believe that I can write middles with the best of them.

[The above is from The Pilot. Yeah, that one, the one who married me and just started his own blog, Earning Money Sleeping, now that mine has jumped the shark matured! Please go say hello!]

Hmmm...a possibly shady land deal involving a prominent national politician! Bring on the unending news coverage! Bring on the talk radio conspiracy theorizing! Bring on the independent prosecutors! Bring on the hearings in Congress! Bring on the -- oh wait, it doesn't involve a Democrat named "Clinton". Forget it, then.

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Not that I need to tell any of you this (I’ve read your blogs), but this whole love thing is complicated.

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Devilry I’d Enjoy Dreaming Up More than Actually Doing:
    1     composing a dessert recipe disguising brussels sprouts
    2     training the cat (ha!) to sit on the table to eat from plates to scandalize one certain guest.
    3     a huge honking bullwhip over the bed for guests to avoid looking at
    4     spend the night writing peace poetry in chalk on the sidewalk all around the US fortress embassy to offset its Cardassian architecture and gated setbacks.

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I don’t want to lose the spontaneity of life, but I also don’t want to resent the passage of time. [Well said!]

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It's usually not a good idea to open up a post with a defensive statement. I learned early on that the rules of successful blogging are really almost exactly the same as the rules for surviving an encounter with a cougar: make yourself look bigger than you actually are, make as much random noise as you can, do not back up and never, ever turn your back. Running away is out of the question, unless of course the question is "Would you like to be chased down, felled with a dental bisection of your carotid artery and then slowly devoured over a period of several weeks?" [Dude, for every sports post, I'm going to write an herb post, to the death.]

Comments

[Shephard]

Copying is the sincerest form of flattery. :)
You're both spreading blog wit and intrigue and exposing us to things we might miss. Great concept, borrowed or not.

I'm still laughing at the bullwhip! lol
~S

[Pearl]

:D Glad you enjoyed.

[Jaquandor]

You'd better keep doing these!