Sunday
(3)Alice Bachini has decided to bring her blogging career to an end. At least for now.
I really have got to the end of the blogging phase that started a year and a half ago when I created this blog under the old title you can still see if you look up the stats. I've said everything I wanted to say here, met lots of interesting people and had a huge amount of fun. And now my creativity is going into new demanding projects and as a blogger I've run out of anything original to say.
I am sure she has not run out of original things to say because people like Alice seldom do. However, operating a solo-blog is a demanding and time-intensive business and, if there are other things that she wants to do with her life then I can sympathise with the need to boldly prioritise.
She intimates that she might return to blogging at some point in the future and I certainly hope she does. The blogosphere, particularly the British end of it, needs all the voices of reason it can get.
As a parting gift, her final (if indeed it proves to be 'final') entry consists of a fulsome and righteous rant:
It's fine to blow people up if your cause is anti-Americanism. Only capitalists should be pacifists: because that way, they will lose the war. Evil fucking hypocritical bastards. Every single one of them should go and live in a country whose values they actually support. But I suppose they don't want to strap pretend bombs to their kids, give them machine guns and parade them in the streets.
In the traditions of good performers everywhere, she has left us all wanting more.
Oh dear, the nicer people are, the worse I feel about stopping... but it had to happen, for now at least.
Thank you so much for the kind words, David. I have a suspicion they will be a big part of my inspiration for a return some time in the future.
Posted by Alice Bachini at April 18, 2004 05:16 PM
Hopefully as Alice is also a Samizdatista, when she gets the blogging itch, we will see the occasional Alice Gem appear here on Samizdata.net. Don't be a stranger, Alice!
Posted by Perry de Havilland at April 18, 2004 05:58 PM
Excellent news! She will not be missed by me that is for sure.
Posted by Andrew Ian Dodge at April 18, 2004 05:59 PM
Oh dear, that anti-animal post will live forever... thanks for making me feel better by reminding me some of why I'm taking a breather, Andrew. (Btw, I like your blog quite a lot).
Posted by Alice Bachini at April 18, 2004 06:55 PM
Heh, Alice, thanks for taking it so well. It was just a tad catty and wasn't exactly meant to be as nasty as it reads. Anyway thanks for the kind comments about my blog and I hope you "hiatus" will re-charge your blogging batteries.
Posted by Andrew Ian Dodge at April 18, 2004 08:02 PM
Goodbye Alice. Your blog was that rarity, a direct rendition of thought to words. No doubt we'll see your moniker on the odd post to the circuit. Best of luck.
Posted by Dave F at April 19, 2004 01:00 PM
As one of commentariat who came post Alice B. I don't really have much to comment other than it is a shame that one feels the need to feel they have said it all. Sometimes the essence is in the repitition. As the world has not become a libertarian paradise we each envision (in our own ways) people speaking their peace is still obviously necessary. I guess a blog can be used as both a means to vent one's spleen, and to attempt to propagate 'memes' into the mass culture. But as the former, one can certainly burn out and feel that the energy spent is for naught. But one shouldn't forget the latter in that what they have said, and might say, will hopefully have some impact on a reader. One by one, agonizingly slow maybe, but we libertarians don't have many other option to spread concepts and ideas.
Many of my comments, here and some others that I have frequented, have a reputation as being pedantic and heavy handed. That is, to some degree, by design, as I hope to have some impact by what I say, as a layman, with no inspiring credentials, having opinions and attempting to get those opinions into a medium for others to see. There is a certain level of importance in the process. It's the great thing about the internet, average lunks can formulate (half-baked?) opinions and hope to share their perspective with others.
Posted by toolkien at April 19, 2004 08:48 PM
