people who know how to write
I pride myself on knowing how to write. This says more about my poor impulse control with regard to personal pride than it says about my writing. I am even more convinced that this pride is misplaced when I read the following two blogs. These two can write about anything at all, and you can tell betwixt it all is an occasional sense of desperation and anxiety. But does that stop their amazing writing talent from shining through - no! Even the dreariest of posts brighten right up. Somehow, the drearier the brighter in fact. Proof that you have to suffer for great art.
Take faster pussycat, for example. The thing I laughed out loud about, and still dwell on for some reason, is the idea of "attending a morale event in her usual way, driving in her car, towards home, in spirit." Now, that's good writing.
Then there's Rory, who is in the tech world so some of you might know about this already. Today he cracked me up talking about volcano barf. It doesn't sound very funny when I say it. I guess you had to be there.