What are blogs about?

I could link to a hundred different blogs right now. Off the top of my head I can think of blogs that kick my country in its ass or that make tunes on demand, or, like my longtime favourite, are dedicated to life in Sweden. (Cautiously I'm leaving my friends' blogs unmentioned here.*)

In my brief hiatus I've been wondering what this blog is all about. Because the canon that is Help! Bats! Everywhere! is not about what I eat for breakfast, how much laundry I have to do, or the cute thing my cat did this afternoon.** And it's not about my feelings (unless they are annoyed feelings). Occasionally it's about books. No one clicked comment to respond to my plea for good history books to read, so maybe my Stumblers are not very bookish.***

Well, maybe this will be the post to tide my guilt over until the next one. This is my long-winded way of saying I don't know what to say. There's so much happening in the world right now and my first instinct at times like this is not to talk, or rant, or fight, but to listen.

I'll leave this on one note: my favourite line I've written in the last six months:

"That woman trying to get her attention. Waving with four fingers."

There's a whole story behind it.

Notes:
* friends' blogs: well okay.

Krista: Needs More Dogs

Adrian: The Abbatoir

Mason: Propeller

Adam: The Exposed Brain

Nathan: Kaiser Nathos Polychronopolous

Billie-Ann: Perpetually Hungry

**what I eat for breakfast, how much laundry I have to do, or the cute thing my cat did this afternoon: If this was that kind of blog, the answers would be as follows:

cereal

less now that it's in the dryer

drank from a cup!

***maybe my Stumblers are not very bookish: Even if I am. Have all of you seen me? I look damn bookish I think. But when I worked at the library I never got mistaken for a librarian. Maybe it was the miniskirt. But if any of you are bookish, come say hi. And did anyone else out there read If on a Winter's Night a Traveller?