There is Nothing to Read Anymore

Lately my brother and I have been agreeing on a lot of issues--so when he called last night and asked if I knew of any blogs worth reading, I wasn't surprised. I spent yesterday afternoon reminiscing (freakish!) about the internet in high school: People actually ran websites rife with relevant and humorous content! There was my own Imaginary Sanitation (portions of which are still available here. Martin Bell ran the wildly-popular-with-speech-and-debate-kids-everywhere Dead Sea Goat, now nowhere to be found on the internet. Yesterday I even turned up Maria Carrozza's INSTITUTION, kind of a little sister site to IS and DSG.

Now no one even has a website. I have one, but I never put anything on it.

I thought I invented blogging in high school. Almost every day, I would hand-code updates to a page called the Alarmingly Randoom Thought of the Day. People would then come every day to read it. It worked, but it was a lot of work.

Enter Blogger. You didn't have to do anything but think, and the magical site would transpose your thoughts to the internet. For a while people I knew blogged. Now they don't.

Regian Pat Carr had a pretty funny site, which disappeared in some hazy smog of legal and academic concerns. TUB O JOY alum Seth Kaufman had a blog, but he doesn't bother with it anymore. The aforementioned Mr. Bell recently started a blog which has proven to be a pretty damn funny link library. I don't know where he's hiding the Original Content, because I know he's got it.

In yesterday's pathetic quest, I even found the ostensibly abandone blog of Nick Gorski, who according to the site (and my brother) is now an alcoholic bus driver in Virginia.

What the fuck, people? I'm not saying I can't entertain myself, but...entertain me, damn it.