Bringing back the blog

I took down my blog for a variety of reasons. My boss found it, and began looking at me differently. Slightly askance. I got bored with the pressure of blogging, to write something interesting that would make people want to fuck me--people I really didn't think were out there or cared. It lacked focus. People do the whole "snotty faggot making fun of fat popstars" much better than I ever could. I was bored of looking at it. I was writing less in other genres that were more important to me. Work got incredibly busy. And part of me just wanted to prove to myself that a blog wasn't this almighty important thing like an extra limb or something that other bloggers make it out to be. Mine was never going to bring down a Dan Rather. Or even a Tim Sherno. Plus my job got all funky and I was like, "I just don't have time for you."

But a funny thing happened on the way to obscurity. People started asking me what happened to it. The doctoral candidate who read it every day. Brian, the ex boyfriend of my ex boyfriend Brian. The guy from the gym. My uncle in Seattle. Could it be true? Could I have had real readers...people other than the elijah wood fans who filled my inbox with their tween vitriol?

So I've decided to bring it back.

Expect things to be a bit more anonymous, and a bit less scattershot. My boss is no longer my boss, so that's a start.

The first attempt at a blog never got me laid; I pray nightly that by cleaning the slate this poorly track record will end. All my old entries have been deleted except for a few choice ones. You can read those starting here. This chain of old entries starts at the end and moves toward the beginning. It's rather sad and roughshod, really. I kept the ones that I liked the best. We had our moments, didn't we. Awwww, capris!

My critical faculties will be coming back online little by little in the coming weeks. I have been rediscovering the pleasures of coding. Late at night, listening to Interpol, fiddling with css, skipping down the steps of my tabs. Back to you dear reader. I mean me.

In the meantime, I have many things to share with you...

make graffiti out of moss; a couple tracks from negativeland; an old abandoned buoy depot in duluth; this ph.d. student is a real bitch; visualize your torrents with this mac bittorrent client; download the amazing anti-bush song bright eyes performed on jay leno for free at the itunes store via this link; elijah wood likes older men.