Why I Blog
Welcome to the second coming of "THIS JUST IN!!!" Well, actually second coming and second home... I "restarted" this on LiveJournal last month and now it has two homes for the moment...
Some four years ago, I was writing what I called an "Internet column" by the same name. The term "blog" hadn't been invented yet. I wrote weekly about whatever was on my mind, which was usually pop culture, politics, and sports. I had a decent number of readers and occasionally I even received a response or two to what I had written. I wrote 116 columns over two-plus years. However, I gave it up around the end of 2002.
I had a bunch of reasons at the time: I felt that the column had become something I "needed" to do, rather than something I wanted to do. I had to come up with something to write about and then actually write it by every Friday, and it got to the point where if nothing big came up in the news, I was back to the same things I'd talked about time and time again. To put it bluntly, I'd run out of steam to vent.
I've thought about resurrecting the column in recent years, but my job at the time made me a little uneasy about having the opinions I used to give connected to my name. Well, that job (and that career, really) are both in the past. I recently thought about things I had wanted to do in life and put aside, and the column was one of them. I came to a realization that I certainly have a gift for writing... and frankly, I think the world needs to hear from my sorry ass again. Oh, and writing letters to the editor is not an effective form of release... especially when they don't get published. Ever.
So it's time to come back, but with a couple changes to preserve my interest in doing this and, for that matter, my sanity. This won't be a weekly thing. I've got a lot to say now so I may just be posting daily for a while, but soon enough it will slow down and I may go a couple weeks between posts.
I'm looking at this as a continuation of what I started in August 2000 with the original "column". I won't number these like I used to, but really this could be #117 and it would fit just as well with anything else I've written.
Bear with me as it may take me a couple posts to get back to where I used to be in terms of style points (and also I've been sick lately). That being said, away we go...
Some four years ago, I was writing what I called an "Internet column" by the same name. The term "blog" hadn't been invented yet. I wrote weekly about whatever was on my mind, which was usually pop culture, politics, and sports. I had a decent number of readers and occasionally I even received a response or two to what I had written. I wrote 116 columns over two-plus years. However, I gave it up around the end of 2002.
I had a bunch of reasons at the time: I felt that the column had become something I "needed" to do, rather than something I wanted to do. I had to come up with something to write about and then actually write it by every Friday, and it got to the point where if nothing big came up in the news, I was back to the same things I'd talked about time and time again. To put it bluntly, I'd run out of steam to vent.
I've thought about resurrecting the column in recent years, but my job at the time made me a little uneasy about having the opinions I used to give connected to my name. Well, that job (and that career, really) are both in the past. I recently thought about things I had wanted to do in life and put aside, and the column was one of them. I came to a realization that I certainly have a gift for writing... and frankly, I think the world needs to hear from my sorry ass again. Oh, and writing letters to the editor is not an effective form of release... especially when they don't get published. Ever.
So it's time to come back, but with a couple changes to preserve my interest in doing this and, for that matter, my sanity. This won't be a weekly thing. I've got a lot to say now so I may just be posting daily for a while, but soon enough it will slow down and I may go a couple weeks between posts.
I'm looking at this as a continuation of what I started in August 2000 with the original "column". I won't number these like I used to, but really this could be #117 and it would fit just as well with anything else I've written.
Bear with me as it may take me a couple posts to get back to where I used to be in terms of style points (and also I've been sick lately). That being said, away we go...
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