This Pleasant Slavery

October 10th, 2005

Oh, that Michael McGorty. If you don’t subscribe to his weblog, you are missing out on one of the best writer-librarians in the business. I’ve met Michael twice, at the two most recent ALA conferences (Yes, Walt. I know the one in Boston was technically a meeting). He is a humble, quiet man with a love for humankind. Since our initial meeting, he has sent me a few postcards with pictures of flowers adorning the front, with beautiful notes inside. He always asks about my family, especially my daughter, and I can tell that, even though he hasn’t met Hallie, he has a fondness for her that overshadows those who have.

Michael recently wrote a essay on weblogs. Read the whole thing, but here is a snippet:

“Weblogs that last, (whether their content has significance or no) will doubtless be those whose authors are possessed by that need which makes otherwise normal people sit down and write with the regularity that other folks eat dinner. In other words, writers will continue to be writers, out of a need which we need not consider altogether laudable; those who never create blogs, or who make them up only to abandon them will only be expressing the tendency for normal people to pursue amusing new outlets until the toy becomes boring or something else comes along.”

Bravo Michael. Until San Antonio.

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