Thursday, May 14, 2009

Respite

The truth of the matter is that I don't have a thing for today's blog. Normally that would result in no post at all, but I've challenged myself to post every day of this month. I did this in March 2008 and was successful. I am also determined to complete the 2010 min-marathon here in Indianapolis next May, but that's another story. I take these personal vows seriously.

The point being that I'm torn between putting up a crappy entry just to keep the May blog streak alive or drop out in shame. In the face of yesterday's sub standard article - which will be removed after the month is over (or revised) , I was hoping to come up with a real whiz-bang post today. This has caused me to reflect on Harrumph, Harrumph, which has served me well for the last 2 years.

Harrumph, Harrumph originated as Mr. Sparkle's Land of Enchantment. It was a real copy-cat title (Simpson's and The Great State of New Mexico) which made so sense whatsoever. The blog had no direction, but did seem to rely heavily on rants, diatribes, and grumbling. MSLOE was out. The name, Harrumph Harrumph, makes sense only if you have seen Blazing Saddles. The title is derived from the scene when Mel Brooks' character demands that his syncophat cabinet "Harrumphs" at the outrages befalling the state. I am easily outraged and the bolg almost writes itself. But wouldn't you know it, there haven't been any new petty annoyances today.

So we're going to the archives.
Five Peeves and a entry from the archives for each.

1. Classic Rock - Old farts listening to the same six songs that the did in 1975.
http://trmink.blogspot.com/2007/11/death-by-randy.html

2. Laws made to appease fundamentalist Christans.
http://trmink.blogspot.com/2007/09/todays-sermon.html

3. Talking Machines.
http://trmink.blogspot.com/2007/08/kaczynski-moment.html

4. Prophets and Soothsayers
http://trmink.blogspot.com/2008/12/end-of-world.html

5. Other people's bodily fluids.
http://trmink.blogspot.com/2008/10/and-you-insist-on-bottled-water.html

2 comments:

Jeni Burns said...

You're doing better than me. I aspire to blog at least at one point during every day, and then just don't. I hate that I don't write in anything longer than 140-letter incriments, or forum posts where I work, lol.

Jeni Burns said...

BTW, this is jenxdigital from twitter ;)