In a moment of distracted boredom earlier this afternoon, I stumbled across this article from the Guardian back in April, in which 3 bloggers talk about why they do it.
Ignoring for a second the slightly surreal but probably-seemed-better-in-context-in-an-issue-edited-by-Franz Ferdinand quote at the bottom, “Franz Ferdinand say…”, the article is worth reading if only for the following quote: “What tends to happen with me is that I’ll meet up with someone I haven’t seen for a while, attempt to make casual small talk about what I’ve been up to, and get stopped in my tracks as they tell me that they’ve already read it all. “Yeah, I know,” they’ll say, disinterestedly. It’s like starting a joke and having the punchline inserted by someone else.”
Yes! That’s exactly what happens to me. It’s rather disconcerting, actually, as I realise that I only have a limited number of anecdotes, and I’ve already used them all up.