So, this is my final blog for WBEZ.org. There are many reasons for my decision to give up my space on this great site, but I’ll share with you just a few of them.

• Mistakenly thought I’d get same reaction as Car Talk guys upon retirement
• Couldn’t be on the same site with a blogger who doesn’t understand the genius of Springsteen
• Want to spend more time with my kids, as that involves no mental energy
• Going off to write the Great American Novella
• Going to put all my writing energies into live-tweeting from Graham Elliot restaurants
• Want to be able to regret a decision three months from now
• Got access to a friend’s HBO GO account
• Going back to RedEye after they promised to extend column length to 28 words
• Reader comments made me cry
• Devoting all my time to using expiring Groupons
• Ran out of opinions
• Lost ability to write in complete sentences; hope to be dubbed “The Steve Sax of Bloggers”
• Also apparently lost ability to include references to things less than a decade old
• Not much going on in the U.S. this coming fall to blog about
• Spent more money in getting over to WBEZ than they paid me
• On deadline to write a blog entry; only idea I came up with was “Why I Am Quitting the Blog”
• Think the Internet is a passing phase
• My typist quit
• It’s so hot outside
• Hired by Mel Gibson to be Jewish friend
• After Alec Baldwin shut down his Twitter account, what was the point?
• Opening a high-end donut shop or Auntie Anne’s franchise
• Hate blogging
• Like quitting
• You’re looking at the new Mrs. Tom Cruise

Thank you for reading this space. I appreciate it. Meanwhile, the next Interview Show is Friday, Aug. 3 at The Hideout. If you want to join the mailing list for updates, please shoot me an email at mebazer@yahoo.com. Thank you. And a big thanks to WBEZ for this opportunity.