Thursday, August 7, 2008

Good Night, and Good Luck.


Kindhearted readers, I bear sad news.  Earlier this week the highest of the higher-ups at my place of employment released a memorandum officially decreeing it against company policy for employees to maintain blogs such as this one (to be clear: blogs of the semi-anonymous, semi-personal, link-heavy, sometimes opinionated, current-events-driven, politically mouthy, and generally frivolous variety).  In the days and hours since its distribution to all employees, the new policy has been republished on several industry sites and has been the subject of much internal and external discussion. Prior to this, blogging guidelines at my office had been vague at best; it seemed safe to assume that my particular brand of bonhomie was a low-risk recreational endeavor.  Several months ago, however, the controversial(-ish) personal blog posts of one worker bee on my floor brought the issue to the fore. The perp was promptly fired, and ta-da: A new no-blog bottom line emerged.  What I'm getting at is that in the interest of bread and butter, I've decided it's best to not attempt to have my cake and eat it too, or something like that, so to speak. Until circumstances change, I'm putting this menagerie of friendly curios to sleep.  But in the meantime, fear not -- I'll be channeling the energies that once made their way onto this page into raucous emails to the likes of you, old-school pen-and paper diary entries, and a couple of creative projects I've been meaning to get around to for some time.  (And, I suppose, my "day job.")  At any rate, be well, do good work and keep in touch.

6 comments:

Mr. Bones said...

So sad! Let's sue!

Meera Rao said...

I will miss it terribly-- but then your creativity will flower elsewhere :)
Meera

Julia said...

Sadface! Your blog is a jem! But, I can't wait to see what percolates from the whirling of your amusing and extraordinary mind in other mediums.

jamesandemilyaregettingmarried said...

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

leah said...

I will miss your curios muchly.

s said...

depressing news rao! maybe i will peruse the archives to make myself feel better :(