I enjoy seeing that there are other people, besides me, out there with a cracked sense of humour.

O.K., O.K! I’ll fess up. People like you make me feel normal.

Lenny Bruce does make one think and I suppose that’s why the government hounded him.

The Lenny Bruce video was funny … in an old fashion way … which I thought was weird that I thought that … while possibly thinking.

I realized that statistics were a false gage of readership a while ago as well. I hate to say that most popular “posts” are the ones that have the images highlighted in google images: kitchen utensils, pasta, Beavis and Butthead, and smiley faces.

I originally started blogging because Kelly Pettit and Willy Badger forced me to … or at least made it easy for me. (over at Blogger originally)
It was just a time waster/entertainment outlet for stupid thoughts that ran through my head. I thought I was funny; and it was interesting to see if other people thought I was too.
I started out one way and eventually expanded in other directions of stupidity. (I didn’t know I had puns, children’s stories, or other things inside of me)

For me, if no one thought I was funny, I’d probably still blog and just walk around feeling misunderstood … maybe cop an attitude as well.

But I’m happy with the possible 20 or 30 people who might read my blog semi-regularly. Do I edit myself for these 20 or 30 people? Probably a bit, but the stuff I like to write about is pretty non-feather ruffling stuff anyway.

I do love comments though; I’m a slut.

Glad you liked the image of my super ego quivering in the corner. My id is such a selfish bully.

As for the friends visiting the blog thing, I don’t push my friends to read my blog in the hope they won’t push me too much to get involved in what they’re into. For instance a good friend of mine is into motorcycle racing and you’d have to hold a gun at my head to get me to sit around watching that.

Another thing about the opinions of friends is that because they are your friends their high regard tends to be a bit more unconditional and therefore less critical. It a bit like how everyone thinks their kids are so great and everyone else thinks that they are brats.

Vanille

I guess thinking about why we continue on with blogging helps crystallize in our own minds what we are hoping to achieve.

In your case, from what I’ve seen at least, you seem to enjoy photography and food (a person after my heart). I think that the enjoyment of any act of creation is enhanced by sharing it. I don’t know about you, but in my case, a meal shared, is good a meal.

You surely know how to express subtle psychological principles. Oh boy, oh boy, are you an ultimate original, my friend…

I love your honesty here. I guess one would be able to write a book about psychological states we bloggers go through – at least I do and I guess many of others too.

I am embarrassed to admit how emotionally I sometimes take the fact that a post I am really happy with, even proud of, does not get any comments at all, not much visitors, being truly neglected by this cyber world. My ego really screams then. Or when I learn that most of my friends don’t ever visit my blog, at all. At all! What kind of friends are they anyway?

But then again, I like to hide behind the very simple justification: “yeah, well the thing is that I don’t ever do any sort of marketing for my blog. At all. If I did that, well, of course, I would be having thousands of hits per hour, we all know that, but naaah, I am beyond this, I don’t need that…”

yeah right…

thanks for writing this and help me feel more comfortable with myself.

Being Australian, I didn’t hear about Lenny Bruce until the movie about him came out. I kind of feel cheated that I didn’t hear about him earlier.

Tysdaddy

Thanks for dropping by again. Yes I too have been slack about visiting you and I don’t know why because I’ve always enjoyed what you have to say.

I don’t get by here as much as I used to. Sorry about that. I’ll try to stop by and bring your stats up at least one notch per day.

It’s always a pleasure . . .

I’m blaming Lenny Bruce.

I’m glad to know that other people feel the same way. It’s all so confusing sometimes to know what to pay attention to.

Pat

There you go again, using your Jedi mind tricks to calm my fevered brow. Thanks, now can you write a prescription for something a little stronger? (insert emoticon here)

Kelly

Thanks for your thoughts. It’s just occured to me that there may be an advantage to blogging over live musical performance. When you blog, at least you don’t know when you’re playing to an empty room!

Live performance….. scary.