Lina: do you think i should make a separate blog about food
Lina: and just have this one about my misery
Patrick: no
Patrick: just add more misery
Patrick: more misery and a pinch of sage
I've been debating this one because I get the sense that the majority of the people on here who find me through foodie sites probably don't want to hear about my ongoing struggles with clinical depression and shitty boyfriends, but loyal readers of the site don't really have any interest in Vietnamese sandwiches.
So what's a girl to do? New blog? Old blog? More food? Less food? More depression? Can't offer you any less, 'fraid to say.
I like the bits about your shitty boyfriends. AND all the pictures of food.
Laura | March 3, 2009 3:37 AM | Replyit really depends on what your food blog would be like. if it were just straight up reviews and photos, then i say do a separate blog. but if its in the style you've been doing it in, which seems to be your life + food, then its more interesting to keep as i.
now read my blog.
sheila | February 20, 2009 6:19 PM | ReplyJan, that's very heartening. Thanks. Will be forging ahead with the food and the misery.
Lina | February 20, 2009 5:51 PM | ReplyWell, I found you (several years ago, as a matter of fact) because of the paper you wrote on Overeater's Anonymous Graysheet diet.
I stayed for the misery, though.
Jan | February 20, 2009 12:55 AM | ReplyI think food and emotions are so intimately linked that they are inseparable. Two blogs would be redundant. We are what we eat. Trashy corporate food creates physical depression and a sense of disconnection. I wonder if the French gradually embracing Americanized junk food is related to their increasing intake of psychiatric meds. I also feel that we absorb the suffering of the people and animals that create the food, so we will feel better if we eat stuff that is more ethically raised. I know I do. The sense of mental despair(in addition to the abdominal torment) after finishing off a jar of Cheez Whiz echoes down the years.
rachel | February 18, 2009 10:33 PM | ReplyPlease write more about your impressions of the differing food cultures you've seen. How the people look and act, how it relates to how you experience their food.
FOOD BLOG WHO SAYS FOODIES DON'T LOVE MISERY
Liz | February 14, 2009 10:06 PM | Reply