The Disappeared
So where the hell has everyone gone? Cate and Z are amongst the most recent exits, just two in a long line that have disappeared. They’re two of my favourites – who have been with me since the first post – along with the inimitable Ms I, and a few others. Those that are here (including myself) refrain from posting HNTs in the same quantity nor quality. Thursday used to be a wankfest for me, now some weeks are non-events altogether. I wonder if this mass loss of libido is caused by sunspots… or maybe everyone else’s libido is being sated and it’s just me who’s left thumb-twiddling…
My US trip was good, although not in terms of anything I can describe here. My pleading post (my shame at which almost caused me to delete it) yielded no results, as did an entirely frustrating foray into Craigslist. That said, I was roundly entertained by my colleagues, and friendship can go some way toward relieving a lonely heart (although not a lonely cock, it has to be said). There was one small moment that I very much enjoyed – sitting in First, with the economy-class passengers slowly shuffling by, I saw a very pretty girl that I’d been eyeing up in the terminal. As she waited by my seat I gave her my best “I’d like to fuck you” smile (read: inane grin), and to my surprise she shot a wicked smile and twinkly eyes right back at me, holding my gaze until she was out of sight. I thought about hanging around at baggage reclaim when we landed, and asking for her number, but I had other colleagues to contend with and a car waiting. Shame.
The 22-y-o is not starting her job until early next year, so she (and I) will have to wait. So I need to put my energies into something or someone else. I will try to start writing again, but inspiration is hard to find.
It’s tempting to disappear too, but I think I’ll stick around and see what/who turns up..
July 13, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Z, too? Wow. It’s like some Literary Libido Ice Age descended.
I blame Twitter and Facebook status updates and similar microblogging technmologies. Developments where the focus is on brevity and speed create a form of adult ADD, which means no one can bloody well pay attention to blogs anymore. Or maybe it’s just that all this time sitting on one’s ass in front of a computer seems to reduce libidinous urges. Or perhaps make that ass less appealing so we all have nothing to write about. Never mind.
But never forget the first law of thermodynamics: energy can never be destroyed, only transformed. So – hopefully – everyone’s all busy channeling that energy and sooner or later we’ll resurface in some new transformation.
Doesn’t help with that hard-on, though, does it?
July 13, 2009 at 8:24 pm
I can’t say i’m not guilty of this, I’ll blame lack of privacy at home and general busy-ness! But don’t disappear! We’ll miss you!
Xxxx
July 14, 2009 at 6:27 am
it’s all crap.
I feel like the kid at school who flunked her ‘A’ Levels and has to stay on an extra year at school with the ‘wrong’ year to get the grades. There must be some cool kids in the new year but I just can’t be arsed at the moment to get to know them.
July 14, 2009 at 7:14 am
Well, yes, you could put it like that.
Although maybe there will be fresh meat…
July 14, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Well, I thought I had a bit of perfection happening and was absolutely poised to vanish….and didn’t after all….my point is, I am still blogging, so that is reason enough to remain in the blogosphere, isn’t it?
CW
July 15, 2009 at 8:43 am
I am still here and reading so don’t you dare pack it in! I felt it was a good time to go because I really do need to focus on my kids and my career but I am obviously not being as well-behaved as I planned.
So please entertain me!
Cate xxx
July 20, 2009 at 7:13 pm
Still hanging around here too. No one else leaves….understood?!?
July 25, 2009 at 8:58 pm
As far as I can tell, Z hasn’t disappeared either …
August 9, 2009 at 3:46 am
Sorry I couldn’t help you out in NY – I’ve been out of the loop a bit or I might have passed on your call for applications to a friend! Well, she’s been kind of less up-for-anything lately, anyway… probably wouldn’t have bit. Not that you require biting, I assume?
Anyway, M, maybe I’ll pass you a consolation picture.
kisses, P
September 17, 2009 at 8:46 pm
So do we need to add you to the disappeared list? Or are you having a sabatical?
Damn these slack bloggers!
October 31, 2009 at 7:25 am
Blogging comes in waves. We post when something tickles our fancy and some stop when life gets too damn hard or difficult. But they come back, if the urge to write and express oneself existed prior then it cannot be extinguished and just needs a gentle breeze to fan the flames once more. I stopped one of my blogs because it felt too hard to keep going but I regret it. Days come along when I would just love to add to it and instead the thought or picture just fades to nothing.