Hello, new friends
For whatever reason, my blog numbers have more than tripled in the last week. (Sadly, I had to use a calculator to figure that out.) Where are all these new people coming from? It's great, of course, but now I feel the pressure is on. I have to be entertaining. So, um, did you ever hear the one about the priest and rabbi trapped on a raft in the Atlantic Ocean? Yeah, me neither.
I think this would be an opportune moment to solicit your advice. Here are some of the features I regularly include on this site. Which ones do you like best?
•BBI: Boring But Important
•Bipolar Made Me Do It
•Special Effexor
•Headlines: national
•Headlines: international
•Song of the day
•Video selections
•The rare photo of a cute animal
•Updates on my sugar gliders
•Celebrity revelation
•Least surprising headline of the week
Do you have any other requests? The lines are open 24 hours a day. We have operators standing by.
[This is a drawing of me by the great Jim McHugh.]
Comments
How about some information about the city of Philadelphia?
Posted by: Peter Mills | May 25, 2006 02:46 PM
I'm interested in depression and ethics. Like, should the chronically depressed have children?
Maybe also a daily "Liz-meter," showing how high/low your spirits are. Crass? Cheesy? Yep, and neat-o. You're on stage, baby.
Posted by: Delirious | May 25, 2006 10:34 PM
To play the Socratic method with you, and turn your question into a question...
Which do you prefer reading: interesting bits of news or someone complaining about their ailments?
I don't mean to make light of your problem, and I can see where writing about it probably is theraputic and a help to others with similar issues. I look at your blogs on mental illness as someone trying to unravel their own personal DiVinci Code.
To be quite honest, it's not the bipolar babble that brought me back to your blog. It's your intelligent writing, your painful honesty, self-effacing sense of humor, and spot-on insights into the world around us.
Posted by: Steffie | May 25, 2006 10:38 PM
How about more BBI (great acronym...is it yours or did you get it somewhere?) and I am interested in hearing more about the effects of effexor. Not only is your pharm chronicle fascinating, but Rx candidates now have some idea of what to expect.
And you can never go wrong with pics of Katie Holmes!
Posted by: Joe | May 26, 2006 12:58 AM
Hey Liz,
Please tell me more about your links to the right>>>. Whadya know about all these people? Why should I click 'em when I could be admiring your sugar gliders? LOL
Posted by: Moira | May 26, 2006 09:45 AM
What I would love is if you indexed your sections so that, for instance, anyone wanting to read all of the Special Effexor posts could just click a link.
Posted by: --susan | May 26, 2006 10:50 AM
I found your blog thanks to this link on MetaFilter. I'm glad I did - I love it!
http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/38923
Posted by: John | May 26, 2006 11:39 AM
I think you've got a pretty good mix going on.
A subject personally I would like to see blogged is the matter of celebrity bipolars.
My question is ARE these people really bipolar? I lie awake at night wondering about Sting, Cheryl Crow and Ben Stiller: what sort of symptoms do they have? What medications do they take? I'd like to see a STAR magazine vibe around here, but I suppose if you're smart, you won't listen. Besides which, they may not be talking.
Other than that, I like your international coverage. I also like seeing all the far flung sources you garner info from.
Posted by: beagles | May 26, 2006 04:57 PM
One more quickie, regarding the links on the right. Can you get your webguy to add some space between each of them? Its very hard to read, to distinguish one from the next
Posted by: Delirious | May 28, 2006 11:04 PM