{"id":615,"date":"2001-11-16T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2001-11-16T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/16\/losing_my_touch\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T18:36:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T23:36:29","slug":"losing_my_touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/16\/losing_my_touch\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing My Touch"},"content":{"rendered":"

You people are not getting your money\u2019s worth from me.<\/strong> I was just looking through my oldest entries from this site, and I realized that I have totally given in to pointless, banal chatter. Hell, it\u2019s not even funny anymore around here. I\u2019ve totally lost my touch. Or maybe I\u2019m just too mentally exhausted, or finding myself thinking about too many things that would be inappropriate to mention here. Maybe I\u2019ve gone back to taking the funny, quirky things I see and do for granted. Who can say? Probably me, if I thought about it, but who has time these days? I\u2019ve been so busy the last two weeks that I\u2019m looking forward to tonight\u2019s flight to London just so I have a chance to sit still and read magazines or daydream for a while. Maybe I\u2019ll get some clarity with my honey-roasted peanuts and thimble of soda.<\/p>\n

Check out this little nugget I wrote a while ago<\/a>:<\/p>\n

So here is my pledge: I\u2019m going to try and stop pulling punches. I\u2019m going to try and resume getting to the meat of things, instead of just carefully dashing off pithy asides and generating my own spin. I don\u2019t intend to put my whole life on display here, since nothing helps out a story a like a lot of judicious editing. I\u2019m not trying to play the exhbitionist, and I always want to leave more levels and facets unrevealed so that there\u2019s a difference between me and the public face I maintain on the site. But I want to get back to the spirit with which I began UltraSparky \u2014 the spirit of shameless self-indulgence, coy confession, and light-hearted insight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Y\u2019all have totally been swindled. I stand ashamed.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m going away on vacation tonight, and looking forward to a few days of q.t. with friends, relaxing and wandering, and curling up at night with sexy boys that make me smile. Maybe the change of scenery will make for better copy. We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You people are not getting your money\u2019s worth from me. I was just looking through my oldest entries from this site, and I realized that I have totally given in to pointless, banal chatter. Hell, it\u2019s not even funny anymore around here. I\u2019ve totally lost my touch. Or maybe I\u2019m just too mentally exhausted, or … Continue reading “Losing My Touch”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71877,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions\/71877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}