Twenty Major has stopped smoking
The great bloggers, like all great artists, are magicians. So it was in the case of Twenty Major, Dublin's most perceptive and scatological commentator. He could take a bunch of words and always conjure up a laugh and an insight. Just like that. Whereas many of us type, Twenty wrote. However, he has decided to hang up his keyboard. In a final, majestic post, he outlined his reasons for quitting. Snippet:
So why stop? Well, for one thing I think every non-subject specific blog has a limited lifespan. I mean, if you're writing about politics or football or tech then you've got new content every day now and forever. When you're making up stories it's more difficult, it becomes harder to think of things you haven't done, jokes you haven't made, and so on. It gets to the point where if you were a sitcom and your brain was the team of writers somebody would eventually say 'Hey, I know! Let's get a guest star in, that'll keep things fresh'. I didn't want a guest star. This blog does not need a Charlie Sheen cropping up to open up new avenues. I don't want it to be like that.
Favourite Twenty Major post? Well, there was Impeccable Reasoning. Then, there was Dear The Vatican. And on and on. He was a big fella, Twenty. Ireland mourns his abstinence, er, absence.
