Recently I have been contemplating blogging more. Granted this one post will be something like a 1,000,000% improvement over the flood I of recent entries, but I digress.
The reason why I ask this question to myself is to decide if it is really worth the time. To have a good blog requires freqent posting. Something that I obviously have been keeping up with. (Yes, that last sentence provided more than the USDA’s daily suggested serving of sarcasm. I’m sorry if that blows your sarcasm count into the stratosphere.)
Since banishing cable TV from my apartment, I should have the time to post more, yet one problem remains: what in the hell do I post about????
My fantasies see me being one of those widely, I’ll even settle for semi-widely, read political blogs like Talking Points Memo , New Donkey , Political Animal , The Bull Moose , or Wonkette . (Wonkette might not be the best example given the author’s penchant for drunken anal buggery. Then again, we all need goals to aspire to.)
In the political realm, I do have experience and insight from working in it for six years. I just don’t know if I have anything more to add to the discourse. Granted that has never stopped people in the past.
Part of my reservation probably stems from my lingering negative feel towards blogs. Yeah, I know how hypocritical of me to say this on a BLOG!!! I still cringe whenever I hear someone say that a blog is the cure to everything. I heard that talk many times over from Howard Dean supporters. All of his supporters’ blogs didn’t help him win the Democratic nomination. They did create a community of like minded individuals, which is a good thing, but it still didn’t get their boy into the White House. (The scream didn’t help all that much either. Sidebar: Why the scream didn’t help was, yes, the constant replay and talk of it by the media. It was also because moments before Dean let out that noise, Rep. Richard Gephardt gave a heartfelt concession speech not only acknowledging the loosing of an election but also the end of a long and proud political career. It is hard to not savage someone for acting like a fool on a night when a Congressional giant goes quietly into the night. :End Sidebar)
Another aspect that gives me consternation is comments on the blogs. Many times I hardly even look at them, because they remind me of an e-mail list I used to be on. This list was basically hijacked by an opinionated few, who wrote long winding treatise on all manner of things. Granted the comments tend to be shorter than those e-mails, but they also tend to be much more pointed.
I’m really starting to get sick and tired of all of the negativism on the net. Granted not everyone acts that way, but you tend to notice it more.
Sure I have comments on here, but that is more of a function of allowing me to know if people are actually reading this or not. So far two people have read this, Awna and Arthi. THANK YOU.
Given all I mentioned above, why would I want to keep doing this? Well that is a good question, one that I’m actually asking myself as I type these words. One reason would be to serve as an outlet for thoughts that I don’t want to keep to my personal journal. So, yeah, the occassional political post will be on here. Another might be just to put up some random stuff. Sure it sounds kinda like the first reason, but it’s different, honestly.
The other idea I have for a blog relates to another hobby I getting ready to take up, writing a novel. I have a couple ideas for novels that I plan to write at least the first drafts of this year. My hope, obviously, is to get them published. I’m thinking of creating a second blog and using that as the place to publish a third novel in hopes that it will get me noticed and hopefully attract a few legimate book deals. Well a boy can dream at least, right?
For the time being, I will continue to post every now and then. I’ll probably also make some updates to the site in the way looks and so on.
Hopefully one of these days I’ll think of something to say.
