Saturday, February 18, 2012

For Karen....I Want To Thank You For Something.

It'sNotAllInMyHead
MrTweedyVille


Have I told you what I really like most about blogging?

And it is the thing that hooked me before I even started this little F-troop list affair back in the mesozoic era of the pixel-word diary.

Give up?

Well.

It is the comments.

Anyway.

I reckon we've had about 14,000 of them around here.

And almost all of them have been great.

But none, I think, has been more wonderful than the one that 'karen' left at the bottom of a recent post that was really nothing more than my way of saying how very proud I am of my musical daughter.

Here is what Karen had to say:

"I love this blog!

I get good and mad at the political stuff and then I get all teary and proud and happy for you when you write this stuff.

I wish you and yours all the best. Thank you. From the bottom of my touched heart."


Now.

If you write POV pieces and little personal vignettes pretty much non-stop, for no real reason at all other than the actual doing of the thing, can there really be any better payback than that?

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Thanks so much Karen.

You just made my month.

And now I will try to repay you with some Tweedy (but in G instead of D because that's best for my current harpoon configuration)....



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2 comments:

paul said...

I second Karen's comment, and add that you changed the way I blog. I started posting columns so the papers that ran them could get a copy if they lost the emailed version. And that's pretty much all I did, except for very rare exceptions. (A plug for the The Mountain Goats in 2005 and for the TV show Intelligence in 2006.)
Partly, I was wrestling with the idea of writing for free when I was earning my living as a freelancer.
But things were just too interesting here, from politics to busking to science, and I had to join the fun.
Thanks for that. (From Copan Ruinas, as the sun sets on a good day cleaning the new place and Jody plays accordion on the little terrace outside the apartment.)

RossK said...

Thanks Paul--

I didn't know that.

It was a two way street you know - you helped me see the equilateral tension on a mass circulation daily.

Now.

Regarding much more important things....Sneak a peak at Jody's sheet music and give me a tune or two I can lay down a bed track too that I can then send you as an MP3 to layer the accordian over...

Or, even better record her playing something that I could sneak over top and then send back...

(I'm assuming she doesn't often get deep in the weeds of the comments).

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