A Brief History of this Blog,
of Its Life and Death,
and a Declaration of Its Zombie Future
Dear All,
The, um, landfill that is/was/is this blog was started back in late August of last year as a place to bury some of the writing that had begun to stink up my desk, but things quickly went awry. As many of us did, I got swept up in the 2004 election, thought I could change people's minds with my words. No sooner than I began posting in this blog did I begin posting poor-witted, semi-informed, politically-leaning crap in this blog. And articles, for chrissakes. I would link to all these progressive articles, telling people they have to read them when I barely skimmed them myself. So it's fair to say I didn't even know what I was writing about half the time. Can you believe that?
Blogging was new to me, and when a fish is out of water its main concern should be whether or not the people around it are entertained, not who they are voting for in the coming election. In short, I wasted time last autumn, yours and mine. I wasted air.
It was sometime soon after the election results came in that this blog died. I was tired, sick, bitter, dulled, etc. Posting things online required an energy and imagination I was sorely lacking. And it required either confidence or indifference and I was operating with something in between the two. When a friend asked me how I could be comfortable writing stuff that anyone, if they wanted to, could read, I told her I wasn't. I said not at all. And it was true, I wasn't comfortable, I don't think ever. This bothered me and so I stopped writing things that anyone could read. And then I stayed stopped for quite a while. Over six months. But, I guess these here paragraphs prove that stopping writing is easier written than done, don't they?
The fact of the matter is, my desk is starting to stink again. And this webspace is already paid off for the next two years. And my girlfriend's on the other side of the globe right now and won't be coming back for three and a half more weeks. What the hell else am I going to do?
I'm bringing the blog back. It's back. Back like a zombie. For how long? No idea. I guess until someone shoots it in the head. This time around, however, I will try not to stray too far from my original goal: To post only the ineffectual, the inconsequential, the unambitious, if that's a word. No more will I pretend to know the way the world should work. Thus, no more will I complain when it doesn't work the way it should. If a visit to this blog changes your mind, if it makes you a better person, it will be through no fault of my own.
Enjoy,
