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The 700th Post

This is my 700th post on Tumblr, which means I’m Tumbling considerably faster than I’m blogging and very much slower than I’m Twittering. (Which is no shock — I tweet too much.)

I don’t know what’s customary to do for one’s 700th post, but all I’m going to do is this:

If you’re one of my 50 followers… thank you! I appreciate your attention and your patience, real or imagined. Thanks for sticking around.

Some days I will fail to tumble much of interest, and sometimes I’ll break down and reblog something without proper attribution because I’ve gotten drunk on the comedy (or the beauty, or the heady momentum) of the Internet. Thank you in advance for pardoning me on those occasions.

The purpose of this tumblelog is unclear, once again. I call it “a casual notebook I keep on the web.” I use it primarily to stay connected with the Tumblr culture, and to post little snippets of things I find online. To stir the stew, if you will. I’ve used it to write a few hundred haiku. But I don’t use it as a notebook, like I intended, because I’m too wary to share my roughest notes and ideas with you. Everything needs polishing and pruning before it’s right for your worthy eyes. You know how it is.

But I’d like to do more. I’d dazzle you with brilliance, if I only had the knack.

What else can I say?