Tag: Cantankerous

Way back a week ago I got a couple of comments that made me do something impetuous. I started another blog called Cantankerous Old Coots. You can read the story of its birth here.

Well over the past week it has grown a bit and developed some traction of its own.  Our patron Coot Ralph has posted the manifesto of Cantankerousness and has several great ideas ready to roll.  He has also shamelessly plugged the site here.

We are working on getting together a Consortium of Coots to post sage wisdom and general discontent.  As Ralph put it in his plug: ” Don’t expect to learn anything or develop your lifestyle.  It won’t make you a financial powerhouse or a software guru…..   But if you do decide to drop by, beware,  you might just find out that you are a cantankerous old coot too and then there is no turning back.”  (edits by me, go read the real post) Be warned, any sort of cantankerousness or ranting in a comment will earn you a guest post that must be fulfilled.

This blog is not about all of the typical crap that we blog about.  That is important on Catharsis of the Bogue so there will be no tolerance for anti blogging propaganda.  The Coots however….

The Coots will be fun.  It will be spearheaded by the Great Old Coots led by Ralph, as long as his fingers and his temper do not run out on him.  It will be filled with English and not modern slang.  It will not be a site to get all fluffy and tender with.  We will tell it like it is.   We will vent and say pretty much what the FCC and the First Amendment will let us.

So, head on over to Cantankerous Old Coots and take a step back from political correctness and fluffy feelgoods to get a laugh with a bunch of old coots spouting off about whatever comes up.

Leave a comment here and head over to the Coots and see what is happening!

-Justin

Well folks I did something very impulsive last night.  I was sitting here trying to come up with some topic to write on.  I am tired and only partially fueled by caffeine.  My wife said I had that “look” and tonight’s post would be a doozy.  She has seen the writing frenzy that exhaustion and caffeine has wrought.

The problem was this.  Carlos sucked all of the ideas out of me during the PreWriting Challenge! Ok not really but it has been a day of writers block for post titles. I have a couple of story ideas though.  I had a thought this morning after taking the kids to school that I hope I was not running dry of ideas.  I am almost at my 3 month mark and ready to push past it.

I know there are more ideas, I just either need more sleep or more caffeine to make them flow.  Or some good inspiration.  I went and read some blogs, left some comments and tweeted a bit.  After that I went back to look at my comments just hoping there was something there.

And there was!  My internet buddy and purveyor of many life experiences Ralph(http://ralphcarlsonblog.com/wordpress/) had left a comment.  The discussion was about niches, and fitting in, when Ralph says,

“I am not sure that there is any market for cantankerous old coots but if there were, I’d claim it.”

I laughed and replied that I would sign up for the RSS feed of that.  I didn’t think much more about it until Dave Doolin pipes up with his sage advice to go claim it.  So I did.  Coming in the next week or so, I will have a bunch of work with another blog at www.cantankerousoldcoots.com.

I think I am going to fill the blog with the wisdom and rants of  those older than me, even though I am getting up there myself.  I hope to get Ralph to fill the first guest post with something profound, and later Dave with something that would be totally inappropriate on his site.

I need to create a badge….crossed Preparation H and Ben Gay over a grouchy old guy’s face….   Our motto could be “Whatever”  and our niche is “Advice for life from old coots.”  We of course would have to adopt a Red Green type lodge…  Hmmmm  there are many possibilities.  I would love to hear suggestions.  We would have bylaws too…if you are under 40 you need to have an old coot persona or you can’t be published.  Only rants on things that were better in the past could be posted.  Any bowel problems are better off on your own site unless they have a really funny punchline and a cute nurse involved.

Wow I must be tired.  This is going to be huge amounts of fun.  Let me know what you think in the comments and sign up for my newsletter, I will keep updates in that as well!

Thanks for reading!

-Justin

PS.  Ralph, this is a Kettlebell: