An Open Letter Regarding My Lack of Updates

Dearest readers,

I am very sorry for not updating my blog more often. I was busy and denied you a new post for almost a whole week, and for that I throw myself at your feet and beg for the mercy we both know I don’t deserve.

I can’t even imagine how disappointing it was for you to check my website hour after hour, day after day, desperately hoping for a new post, only to realize I had abandoned you. Here is an artist’s rendering of you after just one day.

Here is day three.

And day five.

All I can say is that I’m sorry. Really truly deeply sorry. I know that can’t take away the tears shed, clothes torn, hairs pulled, or the Gods forsaken, but please believe me when I say that hurting you also hurts me.

But it goes even deeper than that. It’s not just you, the reader, I hurt, but the entire Internet because if there is one thing the web needs, it’s more blog posts. There is a serious dearth of self-important, inane ramblings on the web, and for almost a week I was the problem instead of the solution. So Internet, please accept my apology.

Though now that I think about it, I also owe the world an apology. Thankfully, world somehow survived without new blog posts from me, but surviving is not the same thing as thriving. Isn’t it possible that if I posted just a few more times last week, Israel and Palestine would have established real, lasting peace; GM would have rolled out a successful line of fully electric cars, thus ending global warming; and Bono would have found a way to feed the world through self-righteous music? I very well could have blown a once in a lifetime opportunity to save the world, and for that I will be forever sorry.

There comes a time in every Internet reader’s life when they realize their blogger is not perfect, and I think for you that moment is now. I am not perfect. Sometimes I make mistakes. Other times I go to Ottawa for an animation festival. But even other times I stand here as a blogger, asking you, as a reader, to forgive me, because isn’t forgiveness (and sharing data) why scientists invented the Internet in the first place?

Sincerely,
Adam

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Tags: Bono, Edvard Munch, Francis Bacon, Global Warming, Israel, Odd Nerdrum, Palestine, The Scream, updates

Art, Internet, Thoughts Of, Writing | Adam | October 19, 2009 12:13 am

5 Comments

By J., October 19, 2009 @ 7:18 am

OMG, where did you get those pictures of me, Adam? I am so ashamed. (Hanging head.) I thought if I checked your blog from different locations I could hide from Google Analytics. But you found me out. Busted.
By A., October 19, 2009 @ 10:45 am

Adam, you have no idea how accurate this actually is.
By Adam, October 19, 2009 @ 10:52 am

Of course I know how accurate it is; I wrote it. I wouldn’t write lies. That would completely destroy the “scientists sharing data” point of the Internet.
By Christina Rodriguez, October 19, 2009 @ 12:56 pm

A light has rekindled my life, now that you are back to posting.
By Remon, October 26, 2009 @ 4:10 am

You are forgiven my son…