Brief Revival

Since I have yet to succeed in the “wait for someone to offer me a terrific, enjoyable job” vein of garnering gainful employment, I am going back to school. As my last class before completing my AA degree, I am enrolled in Emerging Technologies at Ozarks Technical College. These opening statements are probably moot, since I wager the only ones reading this blog which, heretofore has been idle and stagnant lo these four years, are my fellow students in the class. But, pretending I have an actual readership, creating a blog is part of the assignment for the week, so I thought I’d just put in a new post on this old friend here.

I maintained a blog in some form or another for probably three years (I started it on My Space, if that tells you anything) posting something almost every day. The reason I quit is that I felt I was in real danger of becoming irrevocably self-obsessed and one of those people who believed, despite all evidence to the contrary, that their opinion is somehow valuable. After doing this blog for so long it just started to feel like self-indulgent navel-gazing, and I had to give it up. Well, it was that, and the fact that I started going back to school, got married and bought a house, so the endless hours of vomiting random thoughts into the internet interspersed with marathon sessions of video games pretty much went the way of the Dodo.


While I don’t particularly have the time nor inclination to do a blog any more, I am very glad I did it. It felt good to actually create something, albeit something of questionable value, that at least a small segment of the population seemed to enjoy and find amusing. And there are few things better than getting positive feedback from something you’ve posted. It also gave me a vehicle to vent things that I found frustrating. As a politically progressive person, you might understand how the years 2004-2008 were especially frustrating, and left me with a feeling of liberal outrage fatigue. This blog game me an opportunity to point out the things I found unfair, outrageous, and just downright wrong. It gave me, in some small way, a feeling like I had somewhere to put all the indignation I was feeling.

They weren’t all political, topical posts; probably not even most of them. In looking back here I found several of which I’m still really proud. The “K-O’d” post (11/20/06) and “K-O’d; Round II” where I go all crap-house on John K. You might remember him as the creator of Ren and Stimpy, but you probably don’t know that he’s also an incredibly arrogant curmudgeon who clearly Googles himself regularly, because I actually got a response from him over those posts.




Another good series was my rant over the whopping turkey of a movie The Island, and how it was an obvious rip-off of the low-budget Parts: the Clonus Horror. Here’s a link to the series. I actually got a response from the producer of Clonus, Robert Fiveson, commending me on the article, and informing me of their ongoing litigation with the studio that made The Island. I recommend checking those out, if you have the time.

I do still write down my thoughts and events that transpire in my humble little life, but now I do it offline. In what would be recognizable to historical generations as a “private journal.”