Every week I transfer posts here from the Virtual Pint archives.
On the InterWeb where time is flexible, we have nearly reached the end of 2006. That means there are only a couple more weeks of Friday pints before we are magically back in real time (whatever that means in the virtual world…)
- Never (November 2006) — It’s a big word, one I don’t use often. But I mean it here.
- More naked (November 2006) — The continuing conversation on where the writer is, and isn’t, in the work.
- The conversation (December 2006) — Nearly 21 years of talking, so far. I hope for another 50 or 60 at least.
Enjoy your Friday.
I’m going to miss the Friday Pints. I like looking back at how you got to here – even if I have already read them, it’s been cool to get your little comments on them and read them again.
I’ll miss them too. It’s nice to be nearly caught up — I can turn out the lights at the virtual pub and stop feeling guilty for leaving it half-dismantled. But it’s been fun revisiting those conversations and thinking about them anew. I can see how self-annotation could become recursive.
Virtual Pint/this blog are the closest things I’ve ever done to keeping a journal. I’ve always found my own journaling really artificial on some level, but because I know that this is interactive, I work harder to be honest. Funny, really, since private journals are meant to be the place where we we most feel able to tell the unvarnished truth.
You say, “because I know this is interactive, I work harder to be honest.” See, we don’t only depend on you to be a great writer, but want you to be a fount of attention and wisdom too(as you often are).
I’ve never kept a journal either. My attempts never seemed real — I think I know what you mean about artificial.
I think your honesty brings out honesty in us – I know it encourages me to respond in kind. And I appreciate the dialogue here very much. Even when I don’t comment, I am commenting in my head and asking myself questions, I just don’t get always get around to responding here.