Post Recycling – February 2009
February 4, 2010 5 Comments
This month’s Post Recycling will be extremely easy to write – I didn’t write any posts at all last February, so I have nothing to comment on. This was the start of my three month hiatus from both my blogs. A hiatus that has no real explanantion.
It seems weird now, considering how often that I currently blog, that I could go for so long without it. Was I just suffering a bit of blog fatigue or was I in the middle of an existential crisis? I honestly don’t know.
Part of the problem, I think, was that PSGOM was still over on Blogger, and I didn’t like how it worked. I know it’s a bit of a pathetic excuse, but it probably did rob me of some of my enthusiasm.
Anyway, I feel like I’ve made up for it since, with a six-month period of daily updates, that, ironically, only ended this week. I’ll be back with Post Recycling next month. If you have any ideas on what I can talk about, just let me know.
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More reviews, I reckon. You have a real talent for writing them – I tend to get a bit lost beyond the: ‘I thought it was great…’ bit. You seem to read a lot, so I would like to read more book reviews – even reviews of trash.
I am reading The Man in The High Castle (on your recommendation) and Mum, Can You Lend Me Twenty Quid? A story about a family’s struggle with their sons (plural) heroin addiction. Harrowing, and awful, but very engrossing.
M
Ah, you are too kind! It’s nice to know that my reviews don’t entirely suck. It’s hard to imagine that I was at one point so scared of doing reviews that I did a post explaining why any that I did were so bad: http://poursomegravyonme.co.uk/2009/05/31/previewing-my-reviews/
I am half-way through doing my latest books round-up but am not feeling too inspired – which explains why it is more than a month late. I’ve kind of lost my head of steam with reading and haven’t picked up a book in over a week. I hope that it’s just a phase that I’m going through.
The heroin addiction book sounds interesting but perhaps too depressing to actually contemplate reading lol.
I thought your review of Jimmy Carr was absolutely spot on.
I saw him and thought that he uses ideological and ironic excuses to be – essentially – Jim Davidson.
I met him once – years and years ago – when I was on a pub quiz team at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (where he was studying something or other) with him. He was nice enough, but a bit aloof. (BTW it’s a LONG story why I was there….we lost).
I can’t help but feel that a long story about a pub quiz NEEDS to be turned into a blog post!
It’s a funny one with Jimmy Carr. I don’t get the impression that he actually ‘means’ any offence with his jokes, which is certainly not true of someone like Davidson. However, the line is so blurred that it’s almost impossible to see. To some extent you feel like he’s doing it just because his audiences have come to expect him to be shocking.
P.s.
If anyone is curious, the review is here:
http://poursomegravyonme.co.uk/2010/01/31/jimmy-carr-the-parr-hall-warrington-30th-january-2010/
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