Comments on: Layer Eight Wants Chicken Pot Pie

By: barbetti

barbetti — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:18:44 +0000

I’m really awful with the comments, like Manda said. I probably only comment on 10% of the posts I see in my reader and, well, that’s kind of pathetic on my behalf. I’ll work on it!

By: jennifer in sf

jennifer in sf — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:28:29 +0000

Those first couple layers are pretty much why I don't have a blog (except the making a living as a writer part). But I'm glad you do. (And if you want info on traffic, etc... design sponge had a number of posts about promoting your website, advertising, seo, blah, blah, blah.)

By: Carly

Carly — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:02:53 +0000

I love your blog too! I’m very much looking forward to blog entries about your upcoming dog adventures. (Wait, blog and dog rhyme. Let’s try this again:)

I’m very much looking forward to entries in your blog
About your upcoming adventures with your new dog

yay!

By: Teej

Teej — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:11:35 +0000

Noooooo! Don’t goooooo! The blog world would be less sunny without you in it.

By: Bethany

Bethany — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:56:20 +0000

Your blog is one of my favorites, and you constantly make me think and re-examine the parts of myself that I want to work on as well. (Which sounds like a negative thing, but it’s not — like today, with the switch from “I” to “you” — I do that too, and never realized it until now!) I am not a frequent commenter, but I always look forward to your new posts.

By: nicolien

nicolien — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:50:51 +0000

Ha! And here I am deleting my comments every time I start writing one just because I think it cannot possibly be worthy of your incredibly well-written posts.

Your blog has been one of the few that never even came close to ‘delete from reader’. Which means I LOVE IT. Thank you for writing here!

By: frank

frank — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:45:52 +0000

My excuse for not commenting on your posts is mainly down to the fact that each of your posts is complete and needs any addition.

From feelings to food, (especially the FOOD!) you cover all the bases, so stop beating yourself up!

Frank x

By: Jess

Jess — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:30:53 +0000

Your blog is one of my favorites! I do more lurking than commenting, however rest assured that all of your posts are appreciated.

By: Kavita

Kavita — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:28:21 +0000

Hold on to Layer 7, and keep blogging, and lazy though we might get about commenting, we’re still reading.

I’m here, simply because you have a way with words, and it’s a great refresher from the mundane numbers I stare at most of the day.

By: Moose

Moose — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:54:56 +0000

Thanks, everyone! I really appreciate it.

It’s not even about the comments – especially since I am the WORST COMMENTER from here to Jupiter. It’s more about how easy it is to focus on external factors that mean nothing. If your head’s a mess or you don’t feel good about yourself in some way, you can get nine zillion comments and it doesn’t make any real difference. Well, I assume. Obviously I can’t say for sure. Does anyone know Dooce? Can we ask her? Maybe getting nine zillion comments makes you feel like you can flap your arms and fly to the moon. I’m straying from my point. Which is: it doesn’t matter how many comments you get – three or three thousand – they’re all awesome and anyone who blogs appreciates every one of them. But the head noise, dude. That has to go.