He Will Come Out and Kick My Ask!

I am sorry for those offended by off-color language and I certainly don’t want to promote foul language  among the “youth of America”, but that is some funny and cute stuff right there.

In our alley (between Ninth and Tenth Street in the Fairview neighborhood of Altoona) in the mid-70s, we had a little kid who could give that little missy in the above YouTube video a good run for her money.

He went by the handle of JR. This was before the Dallas craze in the late 70s so I assume those were the initials of his first and middle names (which I am not sure I ever knew). Anyways,it must have been either the summer of ‘74-‘75 or ‘75-‘76 when JR was hanging around the Alley. He must have been three and one-half or four years old. JR was a tow-headed blonde kid with a hair style that could be classified as “high and tight” on the sides.

Lazy Days of Summer

My blogging rate in 2011 is down 29% year-to-date compared to 2010 and, at current projections, figures to be down a whopping 38% by the end of the year.  (Insert standard legal mumbo-jumbo here about forward looking statements).

I set out to ascertain the root cause of this productivity shortage. Work has been busy, but no more so than previous years. It’s not like this summer has so been chock full of exotic and exciting vacations that I just haven’t been able to squeeze in time. (There have been none of those – and none are planned.) Maybe it is the heat? It is 92 degrees at 7:36 PM as I write this and that is about par for the course around here this summer. But it is like that every year here. Anxiety over the economy and the debt ceiling fiasco and the S&P downgrade? Hmmm – no.

Since these poor results couldn’t possibly be attributed to something as basic as, say, pure personal laziness, I stumbled across the perfect rationalization (cough, I mean reason): I have determined that I am a member of the Slow Blogging Movement.  This is of course a legitimate movement because it has a manifesto. (As an aside, I am wondering if it is theoretically possible to construct a manifesto that doesn’t make the author or his movement come off sounding like pretentious douche bags?)

Anyways, excuse me while I “reject immediacy and PageRank” and “reestablish the machine as the agent of human expression”. I’ll blog when I am good and ready. Slow Blogging – yeah, that’s it!