Anyone who has spent even a minute with you knows that you are far too erudite to utter “um”, especially in your always wonderful writing. In keeping with your profound style and rapier wit, you should channel Buckley and replace that guttural “um” with a more genteel “ah”.

Otherwise, a perfectly wonderful piece, as always.

Unfortunately, I won’t see you in Chicago. But let’s sync up soon. I’d like that very much.

@Simon, thanks for stopping by and staying tuned in.

To weird — [or did you misspell wired?] — I suspect that we’ll see more people circling back to mainstream blogging. I’ve come to the conclusion that being an island-blog is better than drifting on choppy waters chummed with tweets and link bait.

Bottom line, blogging is just plain weird. Some folks want the exposure and notoriety. Some folks fill my inboxes with constant reminders about who they are and what they do. And then, some folks like you actually write interesting, thoughtful, stuff that is worth a damn. If your voice isn’t heard here I’m sure it will be heard elsewhere. I’ll keep your RSS feed in Google Reader.

Cheers!

Simon