Wednesday, July 29, 2009

No Muse is Good Muse

As you may have noticed, the blog muse has deserted me. So much so that I have nothing to say about this. I do feel strangely better for it.
Posted by Bryan Appleyard at 10:18 am

35 comments:

  1. BritJuly 29, 2009 10:24 am

    Funny, I was just thinking that you'd be an excellent guest on the new Radio 4 discussion show You Say Potato, I Say Starchy, Tuberous Crop from the Perennial Solanum Tuberosum of the Solanaceae Family.

    You could start by complicating the question: "Are there any aliens?"

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  2. Gareth WilliamsJuly 29, 2009 10:52 am

    Palate jaded, eh? There's a lot of it about.

    Novels, for instance, having mined out the subjective interest of human beings, should be handed over to other species and their ghost-writers to have a crack. First up: chimp lit.

    Could also be taken in other directions, corvine, delphine, etc.

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  3. Big Chip DaleJuly 29, 2009 10:59 am

    Don't worry. The same thing happened to me and it only lasted a year.

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  4. AnonymousJuly 29, 2009 11:01 am

    Take a month off, does wonders for one's sense of self, plus you get lots of crazy ideas in the interval.

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  5. AnonymousJuly 29, 2009 11:02 am

    By the way, George Steiner is publishing his New Yorker essays - no excuse for you not to do so with your various articles.

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  6. BritJuly 29, 2009 11:02 am

    Anyone else want to plug their blog here?

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  7. AnonymousJuly 29, 2009 11:02 am

    And i'm not Chip, even though we seem to be posting at the same time.

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  8. AnonymousJuly 29, 2009 11:03 am

    Nor am i Brit, we're just all on at the same time.

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  9. Ludwig WittgensteinJuly 29, 2009 11:04 am

    You're not me either.

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  10. AnonymousJuly 29, 2009 11:04 am

    Who?

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  11. Ludwig WittgensteinJuly 29, 2009 11:04 am

    You, Elberry.

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  12. AnonymousJuly 29, 2009 11:05 am

    Yeah, i know. Weirdo. Get a haircut.

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  13. Steve JobsJuly 29, 2009 11:05 am

    Tossers.

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  14. JudyJuly 29, 2009 11:10 am

    I'm definitely not Elberry. I'm not even here, really, I'm just looking for my trombone.
    TRRRRROMMM-BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE!

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  15. Gareth WilliamsJuly 29, 2009 11:14 am

    Whoosh. Nature abhors a vacuum.

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  16. AnonymousJuly 29, 2009 12:19 pm

    No surprise you lost the muse just after that post on Lovelock. Once you figure out that everything is connected to everything else, there isn't a lot more to say. You should never have let Nige slip through your grasp. He knew when it was time to talk about butterflies.

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  17. MarkJuly 29, 2009 12:19 pm

    Time for a trip?

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  18. BritJuly 29, 2009 4:02 pm

    No, Mark, he shouldn't be resorting to drugs for inspiration yet.

    Not until he's at least exhausted the Guardian comment pieces.

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  19. MarkJuly 29, 2009 7:59 pm

    Ah but Guardian comment is a drug, Brit. The drug of discontent!

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  20. Michael SmithJuly 29, 2009 10:17 pm

    I'll play my harmonica mournfully until something more interesting happens.....

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  21. maltyJuly 30, 2009 8:37 am

    No muse is good muse.

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  22. maltyJuly 30, 2009 4:23 pm

    Just a passing thought, dragging one's blog behind one like Linus's blanket can lead to all sorts of unlooked for complications.

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  23. James HighamJuly 30, 2009 5:23 pm

    22 comments to date say you're doing the right thing, Bryan.

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  24. Gareth WilliamsJuly 30, 2009 9:23 pm

    Bryan, I know theatre often (usually?) disappoints but I'd recommend a trip to see Jerusalem. May provide some blogspiration.

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  25. Rus BowdenJuly 30, 2009 9:35 pm

    Hi Bryan,

    Haven't you been wearing your cowboy boots?

    Yours,
    Rus

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  26. Susan B.July 31, 2009 11:40 pm

    Hello. The mind abhors a vacuum. Cats also abhor vacuums. Bryan abhors cats.

    My stomach hurts. Cheerio(s)

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  27. Uncle Dick MadeleyAugust 01, 2009 11:40 am

    And can I recommend the dancing monkeys?

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  28. AnonymousAugust 01, 2009 2:30 pm

    Secretly, you want to hand over your blog to Richard Madeley.

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  29. Uncle Dick MadeleyAugust 01, 2009 5:33 pm

    Actually, Elberry, I would like to apologise for my early link to those ridiculous monkeys. This is the link to the dancing monkeys I meant to post.

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  30. Ms BaroqueAugust 02, 2009 10:26 am

    Well I hate to be pedantic in the face of such a thing, but surely within the construct of the transcription of 'n' to 'm', you should be saying 'Mo Muse is Good Muse' Chip's got the right idea.

    Having said that I'm a bit blogweary myself. Maybe it's the summer. The effort on our immune systems of fighting off swine flu. No... maybe time for a cup of tea.

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  31. Uncle Dick MadeleyAugust 04, 2009 3:30 pm

    This blog has now achieved a Zen-like state. I find that I come here to relax and to rake your pebbles.

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  32. BritAugust 04, 2009 3:42 pm

    Yes, this is now my all-time favourite Thought Experiments post, beating even The Guns of Norwich.

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  33. Big Chip DaleAugust 05, 2009 10:28 am

    I'm happy to stand here shaking my moneymaker as long as this silence continues.

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  34. Uncle Dick MadeleyAugust 05, 2009 12:59 pm

    I don't know if it's the silence getting to me but I have now started to hang around Ed Hardy's socks.

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