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Not sure if anyone really cares at this point, but I wanted to let the few readers I have left that due to some “life changes” - work, family, etc. - I simply haven’t had the time and focus to put into this blog. I am not really sure how things are going to develop in the future either, but more about that later.

On top of that I am having some problems with my hosting service and the new MT I installed. So things have been slow around here.

I do, however, have plans to post this week so don’t despair (very unlikely, I know). I have some reviews in the works and maybe even a podcast or two. Just thought I would throw up a post to that effect, in case you were wondering.

Sorry about the radio silence around here yesterday. Busy, busy, bee. It is hotter than a snake’s belly in a wagon rut. Plus, I can’t seem to get rid of this nagging scratchy throat - need to quit smoking menthols.

I, however, hope to have a review up later today. And I am working on bringing to life a podcast that has laid dormant for too long.

Need some entertainment? Why not bid on the books noted in the post below. So far they have gone over like a lead balloon.

A couple links related to two people whose writing I always enjoy:

- Paul Cella, fellow Red State blogger, and all around good guy has an interesting article at The American Spectator: The Right Variety By

It is by now almost a truism to say that a society’s celebration of diversity appears to be inversely related to its actual respect for it. America under the tyranny of political correctness has become a place of deadening uniformity, coerced at times, but more often than not chosen individually under the pressure of convention. People actually prefer to annihilate the variety that is in them. I work with a considerable number of bright young women, blessed with that wonderful accent of the American South, who outlay large amounts of time and money to obliterate it — through speech classes and the like. It is a deliberate dispossession in the service of stultifying sameness.

One thing that will immediately strike anyone who takes the time (and it will be time well spent) to engage the older literature of American conservatism, is the marvelous variety of these characters. Here you will find real diversity. Here, if you are a person of sensitive and critical intellect, you may be purged of the unthinking prejudice of our age, which tells you that diversity consists in the superficial - in matter and not in mind.

- Tony Woodlief has always been one of my favorite writers and I still think a publisher out there ought to snap him up with a book contract. While not quite a book contract, Tony is now available in paper form. Raising Wild Boys into Men: A Modern Dad’s Survival Guide can be ordered from the The New Pamphleteer. It would make a great Father’s Day gift!

Some folks are coming over to our house tonight, so I am not sure how the evening will go. Let me post this now for the lonely folks who might surf by:

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

I wish you and yours all the best in 2007.

I hope all of you are having a joyous Christmas with family and friends. Lisa, Ella, and I are enjoying a small rather quiet Christmas together (except that Grandma got Ella a 10th anniversary Tickle Me Elmo).

I will leave you with this quote from Tony Woodlief. I am not sure I would have put it this way, but I understand the sentiment and I did get a chuckle out of it:

I hope you all have a lovely Christmas. Notice that I didn’t wish you a “happy holiday.” I’m wishing you a wonderful celebration of the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who was crucified, descended into hell, rose from death, and ascended into heaven, where he sits at the right hand of the Father, waiting until that blessed moment when he descends once again to separate the sheep from the goats, to slay the false prophets, and to judge the quick and the dead. So all of you politically correct, watered-down ecumenical types can bite me. And anyone who thinks the false prophets are just in the other religions can bite me too.

Those of you who don’t share my faith know I love you anyway. But it’s Christmas time, and I hope you have a merry one. I also hope you consider that first Christmas gift, which was given to you too, whenever you choose to unwrap it. Merry Christmas.

I have had a hard time getting in any kind of rhythm or mood for blogging. I am not sure why this is exactly. I find that once you get used to not writing it becomes harder to pick it up again.

Perhaps it is a form of writers block. When I sit down to write a review I seem to freeze up and the temptation to procrastinate wins out. Just about the only thing I have been able to post, however, have been reviews. I have lost any kind of day to day blogging of links, opinions, and such. Ironically, this is really the meat of most blogging. Lately, I have just felt like I have little of interest to say.

I think I have come to a decision about potential changes to Collected Miscellany. I think what I will do is have a blog and a separate site just for reviews. That way if people don’t want to read my rambling thoughts on sports, or culture, or politics they can avoid them. And if people are looking for the reviews they will all be in one place. The Collected Miscellany site will host the reviews and the Kevin Holtsberry Dot Com domain will host the blog. Sort of like the Complete Review and the Literary Saloon but less extensive and less high brow (or intelligent).

Bloggers block or no, I have some reviews to post in the coming days as well as some thoughts on my reading strategy for next year (yes, I think about such lame things). I figure the only way to get back into the habit is just to dive in and start writing again. Whether it is worth it or not, I will leave up to you.

I am considering making changes around here for the new year. These include some radical ideas (new blogging software, site redesign, move it to the main url, etc.) and some not so crazy ones (clean up the design and tighten content focus).

For those cherished actual readers who don’t just surf in here from Google, please feel free to let me know what you would like to see and why. Heck, if you did just surf in here randomly and want to offer an opinion feel free.

What kind of web site would you like to see here in 2007?

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