...aaaand jump
Everything smells like zeitgeist. I'm not hitchhiking anymore, folks. I'm riding. Jason is blogging.
For so long I resisted. Which would seem strange - I'd written journals privately for years but steadfastly refused to start an online journal. I'd say ham-handed things liks "My journals are my own conversations with myself...they're my personal exorcisms." Seriously.
So what happened? I was thinking narrowly. I was able to finally let go of the LiveJournal stigma I'd carried sinceI'd been exposed to "LJ" early on and had a negative reaction to much abject manipulation through public embarassment. I mostly saw young people using thinly veiled innuendoes to influence situations or emotions and to do it publicly in a kind of kabuki-style bold stroke information sidestreet theatre. It ran counter to what I felt my journal were, and what I thought journals should be. And I held on to that shit for a couple years until some of the really innovative blogs came about and css became the standard.
Totally by chance I came across an old friend Marc North's blog - and it was so attractive, reflected his personality, and the resonanted with his particular tone perfectly. Many of them do now. I've seen enough blogs now that transcends the chaff that I'm more comfortable putting myself out there. I still see a lot of what annoyed me earliar, but I'm different now and blogging has become so ubiquituous. Unsavory behavior seems more a part of its own language, or development library, or all those bizarre abbreviations we'd cultivated over 10 years of IRC. If I don't tune out, I'm sure I will do all these things at some point or another.
Parenthetically, I don't mean disrespect to the LiveJournalers out there. I've since read many mucho supercool LiveJournals.
And so this is my blog. There are many like it but this one is mine. I'm finally over the goddamn obstacle.
For so long I resisted. Which would seem strange - I'd written journals privately for years but steadfastly refused to start an online journal. I'd say ham-handed things liks "My journals are my own conversations with myself...they're my personal exorcisms." Seriously.
So what happened? I was thinking narrowly. I was able to finally let go of the LiveJournal stigma I'd carried sinceI'd been exposed to "LJ" early on and had a negative reaction to much abject manipulation through public embarassment. I mostly saw young people using thinly veiled innuendoes to influence situations or emotions and to do it publicly in a kind of kabuki-style bold stroke information sidestreet theatre. It ran counter to what I felt my journal were, and what I thought journals should be. And I held on to that shit for a couple years until some of the really innovative blogs came about and css became the standard.
Totally by chance I came across an old friend Marc North's blog - and it was so attractive, reflected his personality, and the resonanted with his particular tone perfectly. Many of them do now. I've seen enough blogs now that transcends the chaff that I'm more comfortable putting myself out there. I still see a lot of what annoyed me earliar, but I'm different now and blogging has become so ubiquituous. Unsavory behavior seems more a part of its own language, or development library, or all those bizarre abbreviations we'd cultivated over 10 years of IRC. If I don't tune out, I'm sure I will do all these things at some point or another.
Parenthetically, I don't mean disrespect to the LiveJournalers out there. I've since read many mucho supercool LiveJournals.
And so this is my blog. There are many like it but this one is mine. I'm finally over the goddamn obstacle.
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