Hi all.
I doubt there are very many regular readers here anymore, if any. I’ve been shamefully neglecting this blog. I’m just too busy to put myself into regularly updating a project like this. I still write plenty, but it’s either for publication somewhere else or in much looser form, on Tumblr.
The more I think about it, the more I think that Tumblr is what blogs were when they started: a mishmash of things. Responses, links, pictures, personal stories and obsessions, portraits of the artist as an Internet Whatever. Sometimes I write things on Tumblr; I’ve written three today. Other times I just reblog pretty things that come across my dashboard.
Marisa Meltzer wrote about Tumblr for the Prospect; I loved a lot of what she had to say. Like this:
At its best, Tumblr is a sort of modern-day zinemaking. Zines, self-published do-it-yourself magazines (often featuring photos and text cut from other magazines and photocopied) with limited distribution, have always been a part of underground culture, both as a product and as a galvanizing part of the community. As in the zine world, activists and weirdos alike thrive in their Tumblr microcommunities, posting photos of signs that read “Feminism Is for Lovers” or collages of child stars. Blogs have been accused of killing off zines (though they are still being produced), and tumblelogs seem to channel the spirit of zines more so than any long-form blog.
I keep up with the Internet differently now; I get more links from social media than from RSS feeds. I read bits of things at a time; I get news reports on Twitter.
All this is to say that while Tumblr is in much looser form than this blog is, it’s where I do most of my less-formal Internetting at this point in time. I won’t delete this blog because I love a lot of what I’ve done here, even if I’ve changed a lot since I started this blog. I learned here, met people here, made friends here, started shit here.
I’m still hellraisin’, it’s just elsewhere. Come play.