The perfect kiss: the endless obsession of music blogging

Anyone who obsessively blogs about a topic year after year with little to show for it other than a bigger and bigger back catalogue of largely unread posts would probably agree - blogging is itself the ultimate aim, not communicating. It's some kind of compulsion. A disorder, I suppose. Or - to put it less negatively - just an enjoyable past-time. A fun activity (I'm using fun in the loosest sense). Anyway, having in a recent post said I'd dodged a bullet by discovering that I didn't need to renew every single one of my 950 posts if - as I did - I wanted to change all the fonts, I then promptly found that in fact I did. I did need to go back to each individual post and manually change the text. This was because, in my infinite wisdom, I decided that whereas the new text looked nice in a Courier typeface it also looked too small and it needed to be enlarged. So yeah, like a moth to a flame your obsessive blogger has been obsessively enlarging the text on nearly a thousand posts. Fun times! Only a true obsessive could own up to this and almost glory in it. Even get a small frisson of pleasure at the memory of doing it. Yeah man, forget your fireworks, your overflowing glasses of spumante and your wild all-night NYE parties, I brought in the new year by enlarging the text used in a lot of old writing I bunged up on Niluccio on noise years ago. Also, as I said in a post about the obsession of doing a blog a couple of years ago, any large-scale excercise in revisiting your old stuff naturally leads to the minor agony of noticing yet more discrepancies and inadequacies. And more, and more ... Hmm, so I've been sucked into the businees of enlarging and centring photos, correcting ten-year-old typos (very sloppy), even - whisper it - making a few quick changes to the text when my glance fell on something that looked maladroit or more than averagely stupid. It's bloody endless. I could probably retire from my job and devote myself full-time to maintaining the Niluccio on noise blog and still not have enough time to get it into decent shape. Actually, good idea, I think I will do that! At least I can try. Try to perfect the imperfectable. Yeah, why not? It'll be like searching for the perfect kiss ...