Bloggy Blog II By Producer Jack.
Unforeseen by us all ‘The Wrong Passage’ has sort become the team’s new little baby. It’s like an illegitimate digital child that’s been emailed to our conscience. Suddenly we’re all aware that it needs feeding with words and pictures… and tickling on its tummy with the tapping of keys.
But now we’ve got our little cyber kid we want you to know that we’re determined to become good parents. Late nights and football will now be exchanged with hyperlinks and wet wipes. We hereby pledge to feed him naturally, as God intended, with insight and humour. As I write I assure you he’s clamped on to my teet guzzling away on mouse clicks and space bars.
It is a bit tricky though because while ol’ Russ is a bit of a whiz, I have the technical know how of Willy Fogg. However, since our new arrival appeared I’m trying to change. I got responsibilities now. Which is why I thought I’d succumb to Twitter.
Now in the past, my moto (to not just the internet) has been: “blindly rubbish anything unless you discovered it first”. A healthy attitude you probably won’t agree. Which is why, at least I hope it is that I’m now prone to missing various social events due to my resistance of Facebook.
The problem I felt with all the MyFace stuff was the disposable nature it introduced to documenting our lives and the element of competition it placed around your number of ‘friends’. Amazing how quickly I leapt from that moral high ground. Not only are we now spewing out untold material for the website, but I am now literally glued to my Twitter for any pellet of interest I can gather. I’ve become a proper sucker for it.
Now, all of the above text was written this morning before we left for an interview. Unbeknown to me in this time between then and now Russell has posted on my Twitter. I have just returned to my work email which is now stuffed with over 500 mails notifying me of new followers. Suddenly my cute little toddler shaved his head, slipped on DM boots and is punching me in the face. Funny thing is… I like it.
im pleased wiv ur progress in the online unknown!
lovely writing jack, makes it seem ur not so far away. xx
I agree with the person who said you don’t seem to tweet much, for someone addicted to Twitter! Why tweet at Russ when you see him all the time? Answer some of the rest of us who are interested in talking to you guys. :-)
Seriously, though, thanks for keeping up with the blogging and for posting interesting new material every day. I know Russell said this is the “temporary” website, but it’s already about a million times more interesting than the old site ever was. Interactivity and frequent updates are the key.
Love to all of you!
And like all new parents, I trust you savour the feedback from us interested aunties and uncles who periodically drop by to cuddle your little one, coo at how beautiful it is and what a good job you’re doing, then swan off to live our lives, leaving you with more expectations to live up to, more hard work to do to keep it growing and thriving, yet with the affirmation that you’re doing it right so far…
…just hope it doesn’t give you sleepless nights and pooey nappies..
Lovely little blog, Jack. Keep ‘em coming as they help to allay the tedium of my current chained-to-desk condition! Ten weeks and counting until I am back on the road! Itchy, itchy.
Have a question though.
Why ‘The wrong passage’? What’s the thinking there? Seems a bit value-laden, like normal vs. not normal. There’s what we do and what we don’t do. All of it can lead us somewhere productive, I believe. Maybe y’all are planning to break down the idea that anything like a ‘wrong passage’ actually exists. Smash it down along with the system that promotes the fallacy. That’s a revolution I could get behind.
Watch out for those mossies in India. They’ll get you.
xo
I really prefer the blog over the twit.
But I thought I’d give twitter a go today so I set one up.
I really have no idea what I’m doing, but I did find another friend I know from another site, and now I can twitter with her. Sounds attractive.
I love yer baby. Keep him happy and chubby.
Ich bin schon lange sehr zufrieden, will jedoch im grunde gedanklich folgen. Und obwohl ich eine voellig andere Meinung habe!Es ist voellig richtig und ich vergleiche das wie folgt, seit ich alte Ersatzteile fuer unser Auto kaufen kommen wir mit unserem Geld besser aus
Thank you Mystique. I like yours too. Was going to tell you that, so I will say it now. Unfortunately or not so I’ve been convinced to keep it short as tiuqne. Sometimes I interchange implying belle as a last name though.xxoo