One of the boogers, sorry bloggers has requested more post series on my blog.
"What a pity there aren't more post series! Though there is still hope now. I'm really looking forward to posts with follow-ups. Fingers crossed that this will happen soon."
- Richard of 'The Bag' *
It's nice to receive positive feedback. While I don't have a new series ready to go I thought that a weekly roundup on what's happening on the blogs is a good idea.
I'll start with my blog - The Curmudgeon and, in deference to Robert and his strange religion will designate Saturday as the start of the week.
THE CURMUDGEON w/c Saturday 4th November.
There was no Saturday post.
Sunday started off well with an interview with Richard discussing his potential new career as a grammar Nazi. While it was 'same-old' it did raise a few chuckles (surprisingly none from the regular chuckler Robert this time) and elicited two comments.
Monday's "What's in a name' post was beautifully crafted and gave an insight into one of Richard's alter egos a Philip Wuss I think it was. This post drew out three comments.
After the two previous powerful posts, Tuesday's post 'Meanwhile, Over At The Other Blog' was really a bit of a filler but even so it got two comments.
Another more substantial post was posted on Tuesday under The Music Curmudgeon banner with its new avatar image. This had all the goodies - a music link, some news and some helpful song suggestions for Richard's Chris's Robert's band. Four comments came in on this post.
Wednesday's post, 'Waiting ... Waiting' was more literary and could have gone under either The Literary Curmudgeon or The Darker Curmudgeon banner. It still received three valuable comments though.
Thursday's post was simple but important as a lesson on the use of sarcasm. It was a bit ambitious though as in The Lower Hutt Valley the residents think that wit and irony is the name of the new laundromat in Petone. Only one comment was received.
Another tack was needed so, on Thursday again, I wrote a post in the old favourite format about what I'd been up to during the day. This is always popular and although the post only received two comments, the one from Richard was long and very complimentary. An excerpt from it is published at the start of this post.
And that brings us to Friday, the last day of the week.
RICHARD'S BASS BAG w/c Saturday 4th November.
There was no Saturday post.
Sunday's post, 'Quiz of Abuse' was a strange outpouring in defense of his alter ego Phillip Wuss. It read like an angry mother protecting its off-spring. Careful reading (always advised with this blog) showed that the allegations made, in the way that Donald Trump does when attacking others, are a thinly veiled admission of his own sins, crimes and misdemeanours. The post received five comments mostly written by himself.
There was no Monday post.
Tuesday brought a very bizarre post mainly about him talking to his dryer. I know, I know, he has in the past talked to his other home appliances like his washing machine and his stove (which blew its own door off in an attempt to get away) but this one was really bizarro. It reminded me of this:
I think that Richard would get on very well with Bernard Byron. It would I guess remind him of his conversations with his brother Robert. This post drew eight comments including a couple from Scotland which luckily were in print as, if spoken, would have been as incomprehensible as those alien languages.
There was no Wednesday post.
On Thursday Richard, the now leader of a blog simply known as 'The Bag' in a post titled 'Here's Something I Don't Really Care About' complained about Ornette Coleman. This was done in a peevish manner and it was clear that he was pissed off not only that Robert knew things about Ornette Coleman (well, everything but his name) but that I have a couple of his albums - 'The Shape of Jazz To Come' and 'Change Of The Century'. A bit childish really. The post received 13 comments but most were written by himself with one from a delusional Scotsman.
Which brings us to Friday with a post titled 'The Grass That Grows Closest To The Tree Is less Likely To Get Cut'. He should have just left the long title as the post because, well, it was just about the only interesting thing about it and would have merited that other title 'Here's Something I Don't Really Care About'. The post was only saved by reference to and a cute picture of his grandson.
All in all a pretty ordinary week for 'The Bag'.
There was no Saturday post.
The first post of the week was I think on Sunday. It's hard to tell with Robert's posts because his blog settings are all over the place like a mad woman's shit which, I know is a gross and scatological but it is funny. The date stamp doesn't seem to work.
The post, Sunday's I guess as it featured an outtake from From the Gospel according to Matthew - actually that's the entire post- didn't make a lot of sense and was full of grammatical errors but it did generate four comments one of which was from himself asking "Haven't you ever widened your phylactery or lengthened your tassel?" I think he's taking lessons from Richard or a Scotsman.
He wrote another post on Sunday titled 'Who Owns the Cricket Bat?" which wasn't up to much but did have a picture of my old Hillman Super Minx in it, my cricket bat and Richard's violin tutor Sue. There wasn't a lot of substance to it but it still drew four posts but most of these were some band administration memos between him and Richard.
There was no Monday post.
There was no Tuesday post.
There was no Wednesday post.
Robert's Thursday post 'Of Jazz And Music' was a bit of an improvement but you will recall that this one got Richard all jealous and snippy. It was OK and had the tremendous advantage of having no outtakes from Gospels, sermons, prayers or reports from obscure and deranged long-dead brothers and nuns. Things are looking up although frequency could definitely be improved.
All in all, like with Richard's 'Bag' , it was a pretty ordinary week for Robert's long-titled blog.
* An approximate rendition of his comment.
5 comments:
I think you got a bit muddled between posts and comments.
"There wasn't a lot of substance to it but it still drew four posts but most of these were some band."
This is why proofreading is important.
"...administration memos between him and Richard."
Sorry, I missed the rest of the sentence.
You should sit down when you pee as well.
Don't get your hopes up for many comments.
Five is above average for me.*
*I'm talking about comments.
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