This post services as notice that I'll be trying, yet again, to write on a consistent basis. Also as a way to get Amir to do the same. Apologies to all the readers of this blog (are there any?) who will have to witness this little experiment, although on the other hand, you guys get to mock me mercilessly if I fail. You're welcome.
I think there are a couple of reasons why I was unable to maintain consistency in my prior attempts:
- Scope. I have a tendency to be too grand with my posting ideas, which leads to a lot of interesting thinking, but not a lot of writing. This time around, I'll attempt to be brief and modest. Right now you're a post entirely about my attempts to write better and more regular posts, which is probably pretty boring. I'll work on minimizing the meta in the future.
- Tools. For the past couple of years, this was my laptop. It was structurally unsound. "Flaccid" according to my roommate. Writing requires technology as much as it does a mindset, neither of which were readily available to me on my old machine.
- Time. When I was in school, the notion of writing recreationally was absurd to me. That's because I associated all writing with the rigorously worded bullshit typical of most undergraduate academic work. I preferred to spend my time doing more important things like becoming the single most dominant Super Smash Bros player on the Eastern Seaboard. Now that I have a day job, it will be important for me to view blogging as leisure and carve out a certain amount of time per week. This will require discipline, which, as a lazy fuck, is something I definitely lack.
On a more positive note, here are some predictions about the topics I'll be covering. Expect a focus on TV shows, most recently The Newsroom, which will hopefully be the subject of a forthcoming blog post. Also, Breaking Bad, and although I will be out of the country during the premier, I will definitely be following the liveblog that Amir graciously volunteered to write. I'll be covering some movies too, if I can ever get over the glorious mindrape (n.b.: mindrape is autocorrected to mandrake) that was Prometheus. And finally, expect a smattering of pretentious high-minded observations about culture, technology, and ethics. Because I know you secretly like it.
