Parachute

I need not bother confessing that it's been well over a year (I shudder to think how much longer) since I've updated the blogroll links on this site. Who knows how much longer still it will be until I do? That's exactly the sort of task that I tend to spend far more time regretting not doing than it would take me to actually do it.

However, I've become enamored with a new blog in the past few weeks, one that I suspect some readers of this blog might like quite a lot as well . . . though, I will confess that I'm never really sure why it is that most of my readers like my own blog enough to peek in from time to time. Be all that as it may, Parachute's good stuff, I think. The writer is a smart--a sharp knife, one of the sharper ones in the proverbial drawer. She's alternatingly self-deprecating and self-absorbed--which I probably only like so much because I relate to it. Perhaps most importantly, though, I like the writer's candor. Unless a blog is a niche blog--devoted exclusively, say, to political commentary or basket-weaving or whatever--I don't have much use for coyness or distance. Maintaining some anonymity is fine, of course. But a blogger can, if he or she wishes, obscure his or her identity without sacrificing intimacy. Use a pseudonym; omit identifying facts. But give me some glimpse at who you are and how you think or I'll probably lose interest rather quickly. I haven't lost interest in Parachute yet.

I know the writer "for real," but I don't know her very well. We share a good number of mutual friends and acquaintances, and I have met her. Yet, because she entered that scene in San Francisco after I had departed it, I know more of her than I know her directly. So, reading her blog has been a curious little experience. I suspect that were the writer of Parachute and I to live in the same city & run in the same circuits, we would quickly either murder one another or fall violently in love with one another. Perhaps both.

In any case, if you've got a moment to explore something new to read, I suggest you check it out.