The Interwebz is Overwhelming Me!

Hey former readers!

I've recently decided that I'm overwhelmed with the Internet these days.

Have you ever gone to the grocery store to get something simple like mayonnaise or butter? (mmmm....mayo and butter! yum!) and then when you get to the store there are like seven billion varieties? Regular Mayo, Light Mayo, Kraft's "mayo", Canola Oil mayo (a healthy alternative?), Olive Oil mayo (a healthier alternative?), the weird kind from a local company (I should be buying local?).

Yesterady instead of making a formerly simple mayonnaise decision (Hellman's Fool!) I walked out of the store.

Too many options for ole Daisy here does not equal a good thing.

Unfortunately,the once lovely and hallowed interwebz has become the same thing to me: Too many options.

Remember when the only news show came on at 5, 6, and 11pm? You got a local paper everyday and a national paper on Sunday.

There.
Done.

Your information gathering was complete. If you were a real info junkie then you subscribed to a magazine or the Wall Street Journal or god forbid, read a book about your chosen topic.

But now we junkies have too many sources. On a daily basis I read: Wall Street Journal (in print! a leftover from my old roommate who forgot to cancel his subscription), New York Times online, Washington Post online, Huffington Post, Talking Points Memo, Slate, Salon, People.com, CNN.com, DesignSponge, Treehugger, various friend blogs, Facebook, and several other speciality blogs.

I'm overwhelmed. If I don't read these sites then I feel like I'm missing some massive news nugget and thusly am a terrible person for not being well-informed.

What if they have found some cool breathable fiber that makes tents that biodegrade in the ocean? What if the actress who played Brenda's mom on 90210 has met a tragic end? What if a guy I kinda knew in high school ate a taco for lunch? I MUST KNOW!

But the sad truth is that even though I read all these information sources every day I only skim through to the articles that look interesting and then I skim through those- skipping sentences or paragraphs that don't hold my 1 second attention span and then I'm off to the next.

I have developed an insatiable need to stay on top of current events, the financial markets, celebrity gossip, my friend's intricate lives, my friend's children's intricate lives, new ways to save the environment, new ways to design a room, different options of letter pressed stationary, different ways to cook lasagna, oooohh who ate lasagna in that one movie that one time?! Let's IMDB it and find out.

The interwebz has allowed my brain to become one big boring stream of consciousness that hits refresh every five minutes.

Sooooo I've been wondering where Let's Blog it Out fits into all this internet space junk floating around in the ether and I'm not quite sure.

On the one hand I like being able to talk about my random observations but on the other I feel like I'm just wasting time and space by pontificating silly thoughts in a public forum..Plus, after I left New York, funny observations declined by 85% while serious thoughts rose 60% and I never wanted this to be a serious blog.

Oh well- just what ole Daisy here is thinking about from her computer.

Cue Doogie Howser music. Good night moon.

Ask Aunt Daisy

We finally have a writer! Here is Ask Aunt Daisy's first question: Dear Daisy, I have a serious issue: my friend Lauren's blog is boring. I mean horrible. She never updates and I suspect her of secretly re-dating her ex-boyfriend, both of which make her a suspicious character, in my mind. Either she's hanging out with that guy or she's dead. Either way, her blog has taken a nose-dive. How can I help her? Sincerely, Self-Righteous South of the Mason-Dixon Well SRSMD (that sounds like an unfortunate medical condition), It sounds like your friend has changed her priorities. On a day not so long ago, she believed that writing her blog not only passed the time, but was actually as entertaining as making out with this ole boyfriend. And that was all fine and dandy when you celebrate waking up alone, taking new language classes, and reading thought provoking novels at night. But now that OB (ole boyfriend) has come back to town he has probably convinced her that, in a fight, making out beats writing a blog any day. Annnnd he might have a point. You can always write a blog- but you might not always get to kiss (we still don't know the affects of DuWop Lip Venom ten years from now) But! while I begrudge no one the right to a little grubbin' - I have a suspicion that your friend Lauren is a very talented writer and people ( many people) happened to read her blog even as she never posted for months at a time. Her stories are witty, entertaining and thought provoking- something this blog may never achieve. So the best that you can do, Self-Righteous, is get out there and pester her into writing- remind her while drinking coffee, sitting in the teacher's lounge, while shootin' the shit on a hay bale. Just break up the kissy kiss party for thirty minutes even if it means you have to physically shove a computer between their drooly faces and command her to type. She needs to reconnect with her talent and come up for air every once in a while. And we probably all need to remember this: A man may claim to love you- but is that really better than the adulation of millions of anonymous readers? I think not. Hearts and Puppies, Aunt Daisy If you'd like your own problems solved in a short blog post send all question big and small to drunkdrawler@gmail.com