Time Out

For the next couple of weeks, I plan on only occassionally making use of the Internet, largely because I can no longer differentiate between my own ideas and the web's. I need a break from blogging and Tweeting and what has become a desperate, semi-daily search for something of note about which to write. (Early morning check-ins with Google analytics have grown tedious, and tedium, it's been said, is the worst pain.)

There are, you'll be happy to know, still tons of wonderful and timely and hilarious subjects or public misadventures and humiliations still waiting to be found online, but I'm not particularly interested in finding them. At least not now.

I knew it was time to unplug when my friend John tried his hand at writing 30 posts in 30 days. Though he's off to a wonderful start, the idea of undertaking a similar exercise here, frankly, exhausts me. My eyes cross at the thought. I'm simply not up to the task, which is I why I'm going offline.

I leave you with My Morning Jacket's "Circuital," the eponymous first single off the band's forthcoming album.