the (dispencer): the fog of work. (1st in a series).

perhaps you have heard of the fog of work? it was tuffy's blog.
i'm sure the title is some kind of play on words on a classy/poignant phrase or old-timey jive-lingo.
who knows? and, who cares, really?

the facts are simple:

it was a relatively decent blog that managed to cover a small array of overly-researched topics fairly thoroughly, and;

tuffy killed it.

but before he did, it was almost to the point of interesting, with lots of actually semi-useful tips, and a bunch of crap about "other" "sports", like baseball. (yawn).

take this sage advice from tuffy, for example:

Words I've been living by:

1) "All good things must come to an end. Thankfully, so to must the bad things."

2) "Something good will come from this. It always does."

3) "A poor man is better than a liar."

i don't know if he's still living by these words, but he should be.

and where did he get this stuff?

(this was a caption contest. can anyone think of some more captions for it?)

of course, it wasn't all top-notch reporting...
there were a few instances of fluff during the course of the blogs run. but given the minimal staffing at thefogofwork.blogspot.com, and the well-documented fact that the editor spent 90% of his time triple-checking comma and hyphen placement, the occasional fluff piece could be over-looked.

cycling was not the only topic, but was by far the favorite with regular readers, who consider cycling vastly more interesting and entertaining than say, tuffy's fantasy college basketball lame-fest, or some coming-of-age story about mauer's sideburns.

and ultimately, it was a cycling debate that became the final nail in 'the fogs' coffin.
in the end, tuffy decided the logical thing to do was to yank the handlebars hard to port, and veer wildly out of the pack, off of the smooth-paved road of free press, and into the ditch of non-bloggery, high school social studies, and contempt.