I recall one night in Ireland a decade ago when the six of us packed ourselves tightly into a tightly packed bar. Probably fifty people in the joint when an ageless fellow wearing a brown sports jacket introduced himself (in lore he's now simply 'brown coat' since we've forgotten his real name) and he proceeded to banter until asking if we'd like to sing with him. I think it was a question but it was more of a statement because he began singing, at near the top of his lungs, and he became the center of attention. There is something of the ham in the Irish isn't there? How else to explain O'Reilly, Hannity, "Fightin'" Bill Donohue, et al? But blogs have opened up "ham-ness" to the masses - not just Irish tenors - and I think we're all grateful.
So let's sing Hank Williams Jr.'s classic song Family Tradition with slightly altered words:
They get on me wanna know Hank
Why do you blog?
Why do write prose?
Why must you post every thought that occurs?
Stop and think it over
Put yourself in my position
If I write poems and blog all night long
It's a family tradition.
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