this is why blogs are so awesome

i am a little sensitive after spending two weeks around friends and family who love and support me (mostly) but think that my blogs are at worst a waste of time, or at best just kind of weird. so to everyone in my life who makes fun of my blogging addiction i say kiss my ass! blogging is such an interesting and effective way to communicate, meet people, share thoughts, etc. anybody who thinks that people who read and/or write blogs are a bunch of socially inept nerds can suck it. bloggers, i know you get me here. i am just so loving blogging right now.

earlier today i posted about the cincinnati post that chicago carless wrote. i liked his post so much that i checked out the rest of his blog. then i came across this post with some of his thoughts on living in, and leaving, new york, which totally resonated. then we had the following comment exchange:

liz // Jan 9, 2009 at 2:53 pm

hi again. i just posted a comment on your cincinnati post. before i moved here i spent 3 years in new york. you have once again totally hit the nail on the head. i just spent new year’s there and couldn’t get over the depressed way i felt about my friends’ lives who i visited there. now i get why… they have, in the past 2.5 years, moved completely into the box of fear. did i mention that i love your blog. i’ll stop gushing/stalking now.

Mike Doyle // Jan 9, 2009 at 2:59 pm

Thanks liz! Where would you like your steaks sent?

For me, the people make–or break–a place. That’s why my heart belongs to warm-hearted Lisbon, Portugal instead of aggressively bitchy Paris, France.

That can also explain my affinity for Chicago and Cincinnati over Gotham. And when I spent summer 2007 going back and forth to my hometown considering a job offer there (check my backstory and NYC and me categories), I had the EXACT SAME FEELING of woe for old friends and the boxes they inhabited as you did.

I hope you stick around and subscribe. Going to check out your site, too.

liz // Jan 9, 2009 at 5:14 pm

i’m totally google reader-ing you. i can’t wait to read your thoughts re: NY. seriously, this has been a huge thing on my mind for days now and it could not come at a better time to have someone else’s perspective… most of my friends who have never lived there don’t get it, and most of my friends who have lived there still live there.

ok, i am sorry blog haters (none of whom will ever actually read this), but this is so much different than a bunch of creepy 42 year old men pretending to be 13 year old girls jerking off in a chat room somewhere. blogging is an amazingly dynamic way to connect with all kinds of awesome people with interesting perspectives who you might never have otherwise spoken to. ok, blogging love fest over.