March 2, 2004

  • The lingo of lingering and lost friendship is an interesting one. To 'de-friend' is to cease contact — perhaps because you fear the person is really a 'frienemy' (veering from a friend to an enemy), or because of a reduction in 'mutual chatisfaction' (conversational enjoyment), but usually because, consciously or unconsciously, you just let it happen. To 'contract Palzheimer's' means to let a great pal drift from the mind, as a result of the passage of time, lack of time, relocation, a new 'friendscape' (field of acquaintances) and/or changed values.

    —John Hind, "What's the word?," The Observer, December 14, 2003

     

    Relating this all to blogging, is a subscribpoor a blogger with a subscription who just doesn't seem to come around much, if at all, anymore?  And might I not call the 90 or so peeps on my subscription list who haven't  blogged in at least a year xangones ? 

     

    But I'm still here.  I still be here when this transforms into a sanatorium for those who have heard the Sirens and have crashed on the shore.

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