Well, my devoted Cake Eater readers, I'm going on hiatus.

I was actually going to start my hiatus next week, but you'll have noticed the dearth of posting lately, it's probably just as well that I do this now.

Now, now, don't be despondent, my devoted Cake Eater readers. Think of all the crap posts I'm sparing you in the meantime.

There are two things that have led to this decision. First, I am just not interested in blogging right now. I'm tired of this vain little world the blogosphere has become. I'm sick of the preening, the posturing, of the bottle of success only opening and filling the glass of the best link whores. I'm sick of it. I know it shouldn't bother me; I've tried not to let it bother me, but you can only churn out content for so long without any payoff.

Second, I have other things I want to expend my energy on. Yes, that means another manuscript. After the last one spontaneously combusted, leaving only a smoldering pile of shit in its place, it's taken a bit to work myself up to it, but I'm readying myself for another go-round on the Novel Carousel (TM). Now this is the same carousel where---ahem--- if you suck, you're forcibly ejected! I haven't the time or energy to expend on blogging if I want to---ahem---actually write something that will sell. I'm tired of writing novels that don't make me any money, because, my devoted Cake Eater Readers, I want to be sitting on a beach sometime soon, being fed bon-bon's by Javier the thong-wearing, well-greased, cabana boy---and that's not going to happen unless I've got lots of coin.

So, I bid you au revoir, my devoted Cake Eater readers. I will be back.

Sometime.

Probably in the summer.

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1 "Probably in the summer"?? aaargh! Anyway, wishing you great success,

Posted by: Fausta at March 27, 2006 12:49 PM (lFcc1)

2 I'll miss you, Kathy. And I don't think its been crap lately. Best of luck with the book and I look forward to your triumphant return!

Posted by: RP at March 27, 2006 01:10 PM (LlPKh)

3 The blogosphere is a fickle creature, and it will always be here, should you feel the need to grace us with your snarkiness. Go forth and be brilliant, dahling.

Posted by: sadie at March 27, 2006 03:21 PM (xV63t)

4 Damn. Well, I'll miss you. I suppose somebody else will become my first click of the morning. I understand what you mean about the blogosphere. Sometimes it doesn't really seem worth it. I hope you are so inspired by the muses that you write a best-seller in record time. Take care,

Posted by: Phoenix at March 27, 2006 06:10 PM (t385r)

5 Take care.

Posted by: caltechgirl at March 27, 2006 06:23 PM (jOkK0)

6 Good luck with the writing. I'll check back in periodically to see if you post anything. Hopefully, you'll have a burst of creativity & then you can come on & blog about the new book (just like Instapundit).

Posted by: Russ from Winterset at March 27, 2006 09:37 PM (y6n8O)

7 Best of luck to you! Thanks again for inspiring me to make my first turkey some time ago!

Posted by: George at March 27, 2006 11:18 PM (O1SOG)

8 You'll still on the list for MOB wine tastings. Hopefully we'll have another one when the weather is nicer. Enjoy your break! I didn't post one word while I was in Mexico and I'm glad I didn't.

Posted by: Tracy at March 28, 2006 12:14 PM (q0Pd2)

9 may the appropriate muse strike your fancy, kathy. best of fishes, and pardon me if i check now and again to see if you've returned. ; )

Posted by: amelie at March 28, 2006 02:36 PM (J0CVQ)

10 Best wishes to you, Kathy... May you indeed produce that Great American Novel. Margaret Mitchell, look out!

Posted by: Psycmeistr at March 28, 2006 06:09 PM (QkuZA)

11 Oh, Kathy, heard and understood completely. With your talent, brilliance and wit you *will* be published! Hope to see you around, my friend. AND, I'll be talking to you!! ; )

Posted by: Chrissy at March 29, 2006 08:41 AM (I3pml)

12 Have a wonderful hiatus

Posted by: Ith at March 29, 2006 09:21 PM (tE+EJ)

13 Greasy Javier's bonbons ain't all they're cracked up to be (and neither is that thong up what's his crack). Just the same, enjoy the break and please let the muse lead you back to us.

Posted by: Bob at March 30, 2006 10:45 AM (yMzz+)

14 Can't wait for you to recharge your batteries and get back in the fight. Thanks for the blogging pointers when I was left alone at The Llama Butchers while Steve-O and Robbo were goofing off.

Posted by: LMC at March 30, 2006 01:40 PM (61/Yb)

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So, I'm supposing everyone knows that tourney time is upon us?

You do? Ok, good, because I've got a surprise for you, my devoted and Big-XII-Conference-Basketball-loving Cake Eater readers. Rabid commenter and occasional guest blogger, Russ from Winterset, is heading down to Dallas tomorrow to drunk blog the Big Twelve men's (and women's, too, I suppose.) tournament. While he's on official duty for Cyclone Nation, he's agreed to throw up a few posts from the tournament here at the Cake Eater Chronicles, which means he is the---ahem---OFFICIAL CAKE EATER COLLEGE BASKETBALL CORRESPONDENT.

Because we really needed a college basketball correspondent.

{Insert much blatant winking here}

Tune in this evening for what promises to be the first of many entertaining and beer soaked tournament posts.

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...because suddenly we have a social life again. Amazingly enough, most of it was blog related, too.

On Friday, I had the opportunity to chat with this lady, and this lady, and this lady and this dude, who it appears was the only XY chromosome carrier in residence at Casa Feisty this weekend. They weren't too deep in the margarita pool when they chatted with me, but I could tell things would be going downhill shortly. I'm glad everyone had a fantastic time and I wish we could have been there. Sigh. But I'm glad I got to participate, even if it was in such a limited way.

On Saturday night, Tracy and his lovely wife, Julie, hosted the inaugural MOB Wine Tasting at their gorgeous home and the husband and I were in attendance, along with Bogus Doug---the happiest of the happy drunks---and his wife, Ellen; The Millers; David Strom and Margaret Martin; and Jim, who also writes for the Anti-Strib and his wife Joey.

We were tasting pinot noirs, which I will freely admit I have little to no experience with, but fortunately for me, I wasn't the sole taster. We were all required to bring a bottle of pinot, our hosts brown bagged them and then we completed a blind tasting of eight wines. The winner was a 2002 Vampire Pinot Noir that was quite tasty. Afterwards, we smoked cigars, (yes, kimosabe, I'm included in that "we") drank cocktails, and chatted for what turned out was a good long time---the husband and I were surprised to see it was just shy of eleven when we left, and we'd all arrived (quite punctually, actually) at six-thirty.

It was a lot of fun, although, in one memorable exchange, I was accused by my otherwise-gracious host of snubbing the Anti-Strib because it's not on the blogroll. Hmmph. If I was snubbing you, Tracy, you'd know. Trust me on this one. But because you throw a good party, I made the HERCULEAN effort and added you on there---and because you let me raid your gin stash, well, here you go....

Tee hee.

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A couple of things...

• I need to extend a large "thank you" to my assorted guest bloggers who filled in for me while I was gone. You people are fabulous.

  I also need to explain why I did not buy cheap Mexican trinkets that I promised my guest bloggers. Because I think some of you are counting on them. And I'm sorry to say that I wanted to buy you stuff but, damn, I just didn't have the time. We really were in Mexico for only a half-hour, and by the end of that half-hour my anal-retentive, obsessive-compulsive (there ain't no "borderline" about it) father-in-law was vibrating so badly at the thought of walking around further in dirty downtown Nogales, replete with beggars and salesmen saying, "I need your dollars!", one would have thought he was a Magic Fingers bed and someone had inserted a roll of quarters into the coin box. He couldn't handle it, and we couldn't handle him, so we left without the requisite schlock.

  Sorry about that, but hell, you didn't really want a tile frog or something like that, did you?

• The Oscars are this Sunday and, yes, I will be liveblogging them. Coverage will start with the preshows at 5p.m. CST. As per usual, I'll keep updating with snark galore if you'll keep refreshing.

And there was something else, but I've completely forgotten what it was. Oh, well. You'll just have to live without whatever bit of information I was going to jot down, aren't you? Somehow, I think you'll manage.

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