Uh, Oh - Time To Reload!

Once again I've been remiss in posting over here long enough to have the Cake-Eater top page go blank. Dang it, I hate when that happens.

When I originally took it upon myself to try and keep this place warm against the day that Kathy decides to come back to it from her self-imposed hi-atus, I reckoned this would not be too difficult. After all, my general approach to blogging for the past three years has simply been to toss out whatever wanders into my head based on the nooz, what I read on other blogs and stuff that happens in my own little patch of the real world. In effect, I'm just chatting electronically. While this technique can lead to some neck-wrenching segues and necessarily limits the depth into which I can get on any particular subject, I've always found it pretty satisfying. So when Kathy decided to go on vacation, I figgah'd I'd just do the same sort of thing over here.

Well, as has become pretty apparent, I just don't seem to have enough material to jabber consistently on two soap boxes instead of one.

So what to do? Well, I can think of a couple options offhand:

One, I could just give it up. I don't much care for this idea because it makes me feel like I'm letting Kathy down. Also, and perhaps I'm just being selfish here, I really like Kathy and her writing, and long for her to come back. It seems to me that if and when she feels any inclination to get back into regular blogging herself, having the Cake Eater shop already up and running will add just that little extra inducement to get her to do so.

Second, I suppose I could just start cross-posting stuff from over at Llamabutchers. There may be something to this - at least it would guarantee regular updates. But for some reason, I just wouldn't feel right. It seems too much like "regifting" posts.

Third, I could experiment with a different blogging paradigm. Instead of ad hoc mouthing off, I could perhaps develope a more focused model, working on planned, longer essays on given subjects. (Jane Austen, anybody?)

Of course, overshadowing all of this is the fact that this is Kathy's place, not mine. It's one thing just to play around here, but it's something else entirely to start trying to shape the thing in my own pixelated image. When you're house-sitting, after all, it's perfectly okay for you to watch tee vee, raid the fridge and play with the dog, but you can't go and start painting walls to your liking.

What is a devoted Cake Eater fan to do?

Posted by Robert at December 5, 2006 11:33 AM | TrackBack