General interest…

So that wraps up the first installment of From the Mailbag. I don’t know if it was good for you, but I enjoyed getting away from my normal ranting and raving for a bit. So thanks to those who sent requests, questions, and suggestions. You guys always hear whatever happens to be on my mind, so it’s been interesting gleaning a little insight into what you’re thinking about too. I think the mailbag is probably something that I’ll revive from time to time since the metrics are telling me that people liked reading it as much as I liked writing it.

As far as what’s on tap for the rest of the week, I don’t have any really firm ideas yet. Thursday I’ll try to flesh out What Annoys Jeff this Week, but other than that it’s a wide open canvas. From the Common Market hovering on the edge of the abyss, to the President Clinton poking President Obama with a sharp stick, to dingoes finally getting the credit they deserve for eating babies, there’s plenty going on in the world that should keep me occupied for a few days… and if none of that interests you, well, tough. You had your opportunity to decide what topics show up around here and now it’s back to whatever warped version of reality pops into my slightly addled brain. Smell ya later.

Taking requests…

There are about fifty of you who are going to get this delivered to your inbox. Another thirty or forty will see it on Facebook. A handful will be suckered here directly from WordPress because I used the magic keywords. For a blog with no theme other than whatever happens to be on my mind on any given day, I’m pretty happy with those numbers. Unfortunately, that also represents one of the real challenges for a blogger. Unless you’ve got an extraordinarily engaged group of readers it’s a bit of a one way conversation. Well tonight I want to change that up a bit and I need your help to do it.

For a limited time only, jeffreytharp.com is taking requests. If there’s an issue you want me to weigh in on, something rant-worthy that I’ve missed, or a topic you just want to see me ramble on about for a few hundred words, leave me a message down in the comments box. This should be fun for everyone, right? Look, I can’t promise that I’ll write a thesis on everything, but I’ll do my best to give whatever ideas you have the patent pending Jeff Tharp treatment.

So come on and help a guy out… Because if you don’t this is going to look like the douchiest post in the history of the internet and I’m sure none of us want that.