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Monday, June 20, 2024

by Frank Paynter on June 20, 2024

NO, I’M NOT KEEPING UP WITH YOUR BLOG.

I would like to. I really would. I like it and I
like you.

But we’re now well past the point where we can keep
up with all the blogs worth reading from the people
worth keeping up with.

Well said, David. A few months ago on a mail list I posted regarding my intention to eschew immediacy on my blog. This is what I was talking about. There is so much to read, so many conversations alive, so many things in my own life competing for the bandwidth that I can’t keep up. I’m happy to run into the good stuff a few days or a few weeks late. I’m happy to credit another blogger for a link or an idea, no matter how that it may have scrolled off the bottom of her blog. But as for keeping up — I can’t do it. I’ll continue to swim in these waters but you’ve gotta know that I may not have read what you wrote this week. Or last week either.

So, as David said… send me an email or drop a comment if I simply must see it now. Otherwise, we’ll keep on this way, seeing and being seen, reading and being read. Blogging, clogging and the like…

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Mike Golby Still Writes

by Frank Paynter on June 20, 2024

I drove into the city in a cloud of cigarette
smoke and a cacophony of soundâ€”a collection of the great blues men and
women singing their upbeat solitude. "You gonna leave me, baby…I
gotta find me someone else." Mine’s a low, chunky car and I drive it
fast, especially on De Waal Drive. This morning, I drifted in like a
train on the sweep of well-known rails, allowing the neon glow of
electric mayhem, now washed by a pale-rinse, milk-white dawn to rise
and fall with the rhythm of the day.

– The Man from ZA