Old blogs never fade away.  They just die.

I read somewhere once upon a time that 95% of all blogs in existence have less than five entries, ever.  That’s close to my own personal average, actually; I’ve started close to a dozen different blogs over the years; a blog for NARN show prep, several special-issues blogs, and my favorite, “Scandalmanac”, a short-lived production during the Bush years that chronicled would-be “scandals” that the Dems tried to foist on the people (which, in retrospect, I wish I’d have not only carried on with but expanded; tracking Sarah Palin’s various “scandals” and their respective denouements would have been a fine public service, if only to contrast the productivity and fecklessness of the Democrat smear machine.

When most people stop blogging, they just…stop.

But Marty Andrade – an excellent writer, former talk show host (at KYCR and St. Cloud’s KNSI) and a conservative intellectual who in a less-imperfect world would be working full-time as a policy wonk, somewhere – has managed to neither die nor fade away, blog-wise. 

The story could have been familiar enough; Marty the writer’s life got more complicated (or so I surmised from his blog), so Marty Andrade the blog started, he thought, to suffer.

So Marty (writer and blog) seemingly repurposed themselves.  Marty Andrade morphed from a stream of original (and excellent) writing into a peripatetic stream of links to other peoples’ interesting stuff.

Like this:

Centuries later, lost Shakespeare ‘found’? – Yahoo! NewsQuote:”Some scholars believe Lewis Theobald’s “Double Falsehood,” first performed in London’s West End in December 1727, was based substantially on the Bard’s “Cardenio.” “There is definitely Shakespearean DNA,” said English literature professor Brean Hammond, who has worked since 2002 to determine if “Double Falsehood” has Shakespearean roots. Arden Shakespeare, an authoritative publisher of the Bard’s works, has released an edition of the play edited by Hammond — a decision the publisher acknowledges is controversial.

Arden’s general editor, Shakespeare scholar Richard Proudfoot, agrees with Hammond and says there is no absolute way of knowing if “Double Falsehood” is based on Shakespeare’s work, but he argues it is a “sufficiently sustainable position” that it represents the play in some form”

Sorta like Instapundit with less “heh”ing and “Indeed”ing.

I’ve lately found myself visiting MA just to give my brain a random trivia jumpstart.  I like that kind of thing.

And so should you.  Make Marty Andrade a stop on your daily prowl about the Minnesota Organization of Bloggers.

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