It’s been a while, eh?
I used to feel like I should have a blog. My first site popped up some time around 2000, before ‘blog’ came into parlance, and I’ve had stop-start relationships with self-expression on the internet ever since. I thought it would be good for me to have some site where I posted the many brilliant things careening through my capacious brain, but at some point in the last couple years, I lost this hubris, and at least as I type this post, it seems to be gone.
Ironically, now I feel like I want to have a blog. It could be a dangerous thing to have (you can read ham-fisted warnings all over the internet from HR types), and countless people have sanitized their Facebook pages, but that’s not something I have to worry about with my employer, and apocryphally, also rings hollow to me. There are things I think I want to share with the internet, gears to grind, opinions to share, and I’d rather do it from my own domain than through something like Facebook or Twitter, which are constraining, limiting, and exist to profit off their users (this doesn’t stop me from having accounts, though). Wordpress, which I’m using right now, seems to function as a utility, so I have no beef with it.
So, here’s what to expect:
1. A less godawful header graphic (what was I thinking?)
2. I’ll continue on with the 100 Sentences project (and maybe retitle it to something sexier — if you’ve got an idea, feel free to comment. Thankfully, I don’t have trolls the way better bloggers do.)
3. More opinion, provided I don’t give a painfully diplomatic presentation of my subject (always a risk, with me)
4. Visual art? We’ll see. I like to draw, and every once in a while, something turns out not-half-bad.
That sounds like a lot, given past behavior. We’ll see where this goes.
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I didn’t know you draw! See, I’m already learning stuff. You should definitely blog more.
I want to blog more too, but I’m not quite sure what to blog about, and time is more of a factor these days. I want to post more pictures (when I remember to take them) and I hadn’t considered putting up some artwork, but that isn’t a bad idea.
I was enjoying the 100 Sentences project, so I’ll be glad to see that resume. Not sure what else to call it… “Between the Covers”? “Pick-up Lines”? Because they’re supposed to encourage you to take the book home?