Spooky

Typepad has been linking to my posts more often recently -- maybe three times in as many months. This suggests to me that they are short on people to feature, as if all the people with Typepad blogs have let them go dormant. "Who's writing something? anything?" says the intern in charge of new links on the Twitter feed. "Oh, Jamie's talking about lentils again. Lentils it is. That lady sure does love lentils." They tweeted out that post I wrote about killed lettuce salad, only they called it Killer Lettuce Salad. "Which one would you rather eat?" the tweet chirped. "Killer Lettuce Salad or Murder Mystery Salad?"

You can tell that intern is not from Kentucky.

One wonders how long a subscription blogging service can stay afloat in this post-blog era. I guess it's not so much that blogs are dead as that everyone migrated to Wordpress and Squarespace and switched to podcasts and vlogs. I use a Squarespace interface for my church blog and I hate it. Give me my nice 2004-era three-column format, thank you very much. 

I miss the days when my feed reader filled up every day with chatty posts from women all around the country. I don't really know of many bloggers out there who are still doing the old-school blocks-of-text here's-what's-on-my-mind-today kind of blogging. Sunday is the first day of what used to be NaBloPoMo, but if there are any hardcore dinosaur NaBloPoMo-ers out there, they are not in my feed reader.

I am still thinking about doing 30 posts in 30 days for November, but I promise I will not write about Killer Lettuce Salad. Because I might give a recipe the improbable name of Murder Mystery Salad, but Killer Lettuce Salad is just plain spooky.