Onward and Upward!

My family is nothing if not brutally honest. “Don’t get us wrong, Dad. We love the blog, but we think that you may be flooding the zone. People have other things to do. They need to mow the lawn and get their colonoscopies. They don’t have time for five posts a week.”

I personally think that they’re crazy wrong. I’ve spent my life bottling up my opinions, and I finally have a chance to let the meatballs fly. Apart from that, I want to be famous. If I don’t let you know what’s on my mind every day, there’s a chance that this blog will never catch fire.

But I’m a reasonable man and I try to listen. I began to write on January 30 and, with the exception of Shabbat, Sundays, and holidays, I’ve tried to pump something out each day. If you have counted obsessively, this is my one hundredth post. Not a bad record for a novice blogger.

But the time has clearly come for an experiment. Unless there’s an emergency, I’m cutting back—a little. Expect to hear from me three times a week, usually on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. It will give you a chance to relax a little and digest every one of my golden words.

But please don’t imagine that you are off the hook. If I pull back, you have to up your game by reading every single post, even the ones that look bad or boring, or have nothing to do with your lived experience. Then you have to respond in the comments section.

And then, most especially, you have to mention all of this to your friends. Send them a sample post. Quote me in conversation. Say “You have to read this pithy note from Marc Fitzerman. It really helped me nail the anti-Zionism/anti-Semitism issue.”

The deal is that I’ve got only so much time. Ten years, max, and then I’ll be dead. Won’t you help me get famous before then?

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