"Just when I thought I was out, they dragged me back in."--Michael Corleone, The Godfather III


I've noticed a disturbing trend recently. Several of my blogging friends have either thrown in the towel on blogging or are hinting that they might. Let me be real clear about this trend. It is unacceptable. I remind you that I am a hedonist and your lack of blogging commitment is messing with my happiness, my comfort and my ability to have fun. What did I ever do to you?

The reasons bloggers cite for stopping their blog are all over the board, and range from valid to lame, with most landing on the lame end of the scale.

In no particular order these are the lame excuses I have seen or heard lately. I'm tired, I have a job, I can't think of stuff to write, I'm too busy, no one reads my blog, blogging isolates me from real relationships, my significant other is going to leave me, the aliens are communicating with me through the blogs. Blah, blah, blah. This isn't like the scouts, where you can just quit. Blogging is like a gym membership, there's no getting out.

Blogging is a commitment, it's not something you can do when you feel like it. When you stop blogging, you are basically telling a lot of fellow bloggers that you didn't have what it takes to see it through. It is time to man up, even you women. Some of us would have no friends if it weren't for cyberspace. Think about that. Without a blog and without other blogs to read, I would be wandering the streets annoying the public. Can you live with that? Well, can you?

True story. Arvin Miller of Hester, S.C., quit his blog, Adventures With The Dulcimer, and two days later he broke all four fingers and the thumb of his right hand in a freak handshake accident. Coincidence? Perhaps.

The fact that almost no one reads your blog is also no excuse. I only get 25 visits a day to the Sneed blog and several of those are my relatives checking up on what I'm saying about them. If anyone had an excuse to stop, it would be me, but I forge on. To those who say that they lack inspiration, I use me as an example...again. If I can attract 25 visits a day, imagine what an intelligent and articulate person like yourself can do. How many times have you said to yourself, a baboon can write better than Sneed? And yet 25 visitors a day read my drivel.

There are a handful of legitimate excuses for abandoning your blog duties. Maybe you're dead or maybe a relative needs vital medical care. Perhaps you were trying on your neighbor's undies and she came home and found you and now you are incarcerated. Maybe someone got a restraining order or your spouse threw your laptop out of the car window on the freeway. These things happen.

Should you feel the urge to quit blogging, drop me an email and I will set you back on the path of blogging righteousness. Do not make me send the blog missionaries to your house on their little bikes.

As Chairman Mao said, The blog of a thousand posts begins with a single keystroke. Or he would have had he not died before the invention of the internet.








Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgmental and cranky