Do you promise not to tell?
Whoah...Closer
Kevin thinks he's on to something. Unfortunately for him, Nordeaster and I have both been at Keegan's at the same time and we were both at the last blog bash. Nice try, youngster. (Irony alert. I used Nordeaster's real first name in this post until it occurred to me to go check and see what name he posts under.)
But, everyone loves a mystery, no? This entry about Secret sites at kottke caught my eye. Apparently there's a whole lot of anonymous blogging going on. Now, I don't use my last name here. Some friends know about the site. (Not that they actually read it mind you. Don't you find that some people are just into the web and others aren't? That, or we've all staked out our own little piece of it....a favorite game site....deviant art...things like that.) However, I don't generally tell people I work with that I have a blog. Not that I write about work.
I do feel constrained in what I write here though, because I would never feel comfortable invading someone else's privacy by writing about them on the web. For the most part, not even my kids. It just wouldn't be polite. Maybe it's too much time under the influence of Minnesota Nice. That, or my parents were successful in some areas where they attempted to raise me with proper manners. (With failures marked for "learned ability to write thank you or Christmas cards.") Just as it would be foolish to write about my work. It's not like my identity is a secret when I'm showing up at trivia or blog parties after all.
Who are these people in the comments of this post. Some not only keep blogs, but multiple secret sites? How can they possibly have the time?
Writing a totally anonymous blog has occurred to me. A place where you could vent about anything and anyone. I can see the attraction. It would suit my naturally super-secretive nature. ("What's for dinner, Mom?" "Wouldn't you like to know.")
But reality is that I came within a hair's breadth of abandoning the M.A.W.B. in the last couple weeks. I even sent an e-mail to the rest of the Squad to notify them of my retreat to our bunker at the Undisclosed Location, (the back booth at Keegan's.....oops!) So far though, I Just Can't Pull the Trigger. I guess you're stuck with me for now. (Don't worry though. We'll never abandon our plans for world domination, even if they do underground temporarily.)
If you want to blog anonymously, but it's just too much effort, someone else has done the work for you. You can post at Anonyblog. Go ahead. Tell the world your secrets. Everyone else is doing it.
Let me whisper in your ear........
