Post Recycling – May 2010

In my ongoing attempt to resurrect my bloggery (see here), I’ve decided to give Post Recycling another try.  PR was originally conceived as a classier version of my scandalously self-promoting feature Post From the Past on my other blog.  The basic idea is that I take a look through the posts published in this month, a year ago, and to see what interesting nuggets I could glean from what I was up to at the time.  The not-so hidden agenda was to have a post with lots of hyperlinks back to my old stuff; a tremendously clever idea, I think you’ll agree.  In my current frame of mind, I feel justified in trying again, as going through your old posts – as if it was a diary – can be an interesting experience.  OK, it’s possibly not of as much interest to anybody else, but then that genuinely isn’t the point.

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For some reason, I decided to write about Jamie Oliver wearing a hat like Sid James (Jamie Oliver\Sid James – 5th May), which seems like a slightly odd thing, even by my standards.  Having a particular insight into my own behavioural habits, this was clearly motivated by my old desire to blog as often as possible, regardless of the quality\relevance.  After reading it, I can actually remember watching the Jamie Oliver programme in question, reinforcing my “diary theory”.  What I find especially weird is that the memory of watching Jamie Oliver cooking shellfish and pasta in a silly hat has remaining in my memory at all.  What the hell is it still doing there?  What could be the possible point of retaining it?  Is there any set of cicrumstances under which this information could ever be useful (and, no, this post doesn’t count, before you say anything).  It seems like a criminal waste of precious brain space, and that’s my final word on the subject.  No offence, Jamie.

I’m happy to report that a year after Leaving Facebook (16th May), I’ve still not returned.  There’s nothing worse than someone making a fuss about something – even going as far as to declare it to the world in blog-form – and for them to go back and carry on doing the thing they made a fuss about.  I may be a knob, but at least I’m not that kind of knob.  In truth, I was never a fan of FB, so there was never anything for me to miss.   The only slight frustration is that it can be a good way of finding out information on organisations or events.  I have semi-considering setting up a new profile for this purpose alone, but I can’t quite bring myself to do it. 

The post ended with this:

 I didn’t really like Facebook very much and finally got around to doing the only sensible thing I could – deleting my account.  Nothing more needs to be said.

Just because you don’t like something doesn’t make it awful, and it’s obvious that millions of people love Facebook.  That’s fine, but you’ve got to admit that there’s something a bit creepy about it, and that at least 75% of people on your “friends” list are individuals you don’t know or don’t like.  You have to admit this, because I said so, regardless of whether it’s true or not.

Birdseye Potato Waffles are not the most obvious choice of blog topics, but it happened (Waffly Versatile  – 20th May).  I have no recollection on what prompted the post, so I’m going to assume that the phrase “waffly versatile” popped into my head and I just ran with it.  I quite like the theory I postulate in the post about the use of the word “waffly”, but it generally left me feeling a little weirded out.   I can write nonsense as well as the next man, but the style of it makes it feel like it was written by somebody else.  The thing has a beginning, middle and an end; along with something akin to a punchline.  I wouldn’t dream of doing any of these things.  I can only seek to assure you that it won’t happen again.

Anyway, I’m going to leave it there.  There were lots of other posts, some of them quite good – see here –  but I’m only going to comment on stuff that I actually have a comment to make on.  See, I’m growing as a person as well as a blogger.