If you’ve noticed a slight lack of inspiration round here recently then you’re not alone. I’m off on holiday soon anyway, but I think it’s time as well that I took a short break from blogging. Or maybe not so short. We’ll see. I started doing this on impulse so I suppose I’ll start doing it again when the impulse returns.
Google Analytics tells me that around 3,000 people visit B&T more than fifty times a month; which is nice, as the chap off the Fast Show used to say. I’m only sorry that I’ve got nothing for you right now, apart from this:
“The top layer was Burroughs” writes Miles “the distinguished scion of an Old St Louis family. Below that was a nervous, possibly Lesbian English governess, with a prissy, self-conscious, simpering personality. Below that was Old Luke, the tobacco farmer, with the personality of a psychotic Southern sheriff. Beneath them all was an implacable, silent Chinese sitting starving and skull headed on the banks of the Yangtze, with no ideas, no beliefs and no words…
See you round.
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Enjoy the break. Send us a postcard.
Posted by: Chris Williams | November 07, 2009 at 12:19 AM
What a shame! Good luck with the sabbatical.
Posted by: Marc Mulholland | November 07, 2009 at 01:16 AM
Shane!
Come back!
Posted by: Darius Jedburgh | November 07, 2009 at 02:18 AM
Aw, flip. I hadn't noticed any lack of inspiration. Fare thee well but be back soon.
Posted by: Justin | November 07, 2009 at 08:12 AM
Well thank God for that. When I get back after being away for the computer for a few days it takes me hours to get through all the postings and comments that I've missed. I could use the break too.
Posted by: ejh | November 07, 2009 at 09:41 AM
But the wild things cried, “Oh please don't go —
we'll eat you up — we love you so!”
(But Max said, "No.")
Posted by: Chris Brooke | November 07, 2009 at 09:42 AM
"If you’ve noticed a slight lack of inspiration round here recently"
Can't say that I have, but you deserve a break. Hope you come back.
Posted by: David Weman | November 07, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Brb!
Posted by: BenSix | November 07, 2009 at 05:44 PM
I haven't noticed a lack of inspiration either. Hope you have a good break and that you're back & refreshed before too long!
Posted by: Malcs | November 08, 2009 at 04:05 PM
This better be a short break, or you're going to cause an MGI right here.
Posted by: alle | November 09, 2009 at 04:58 AM
What everybody else said.
Posted by: Richard J | November 09, 2009 at 08:14 AM
Missing your posts already
Posted by: Brynley | November 10, 2009 at 10:15 AM
If it isn't fun any more, it's time for a break.
Btw, this wouldn't count as a good holiday viewing recommendation for most people, but I think you would enjoy 'Waltz with Bashir', if you haven't seen it before.
Posted by: Dan Hardie | November 10, 2009 at 04:34 PM
Enjoy the break!
Posted by: Acai | November 11, 2009 at 03:13 PM
see, Jamie, even the spammers love you.
Posted by: dsquared | November 12, 2009 at 03:34 PM
Mmm. Stealth update to the delicio.us sidebar. Interesting story too.
Posted by: Richard J | November 16, 2009 at 07:38 PM