Periods of intense verbosity? Who do I think I am, anyway?
July 14th, 2002
I’ve been a little lax in my responsibilities with this website, and it’s starting to show. For all you loyal fans out there, I apologize unreservedly. Work has been taking up a lot of my time, as has play, which is a lot more work than you might think.
While I admit it’s not much of an excuse, both work and play have cut into my more “thoughtful” moments that are normally shared here. So does this awareness of the causes of my distractions mean I’ll be approaching my writing with a renewed vigour and concentration? Absolutely not. If you browse through the archives enough, you’ll see a precedent has already been set: writing comes and goes in cycles. Periods of intense verbosity followed by deep lulls of silence.
“Lull, shmull,” you say.
My rejoinder? “Well put! Way to the cut through the nonsense. I’m just a talking head.”
Lest I leave you without anything useful at all, let me tell you I highly recommend seeing “Road to Perdition,” the new Tom Hanks flick. So good. ‘Specially if you’re in DC and you see it at the Uptown — the sound in that theatre is phenomenal, with a capital “ph”. Or is that capitol “ph”?