I've decided to try an experiment. As of today, I'm going to start posting something on Brian's Culture Blog every day.

All the talk amongst my blogging friends is of how they don't want to get burned out and blogged out and exhausted and depressed, and of how necessary it is for them to take a week or two off from blogging from time to time. But I've been asking myself which depresses me more: Having to put something up every week day (the rule I've set myself and so far stuck to over at my Education Blog)? Or: My infinite powers of procrastination here, which result in nothing going up here at all for days and days? No contest. It's the total absence of any posting rule here that has failed, while the one-per-week-day rule at BEdBlog has worked well. This is where I have temporarily become blogged out, not there. To be sure, there have been days when rather feeble posts have been stuck up on BEdBlog ten minutes before midnight. But often quite good posts have been stuck up there, ten minutes before midnight, and now I'm going to try the same thing here.

Be warned though. I am liable to allow myself seriously feeble postings here, rather than merely the rather perfunctory ones I sometimes commit over at BEdBlog. To put it another way, Brian's Culture Blog is liable, on some days, to resemble the kind of blog that this brilliantly funny blog (count the comments) is extracting the piss from, only for real.

The only other caveat is that this rule is not set in concrete the way the BEdBlog rule is. Or if it is set in concrete, it's in the rather crumbly, cheesy concrete that Russian communism was made out of.

So. Some culture. I am now listening to Brahms' Violin Concerto, played by Gil Shaham, accompanied by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado (DGG full price). It is very nice. It is all the nicer for me having got it at half price at my favourite second hand classical CD shop, Gramex in Lower Marsh, just the other side of Waterloo station. Strange how cheap potent music is.

There. You see. Dead profound. It's working already.