Hello, hello! Yeah, I know this blog is six feet under, but I thought I’d see if the ol’ mojo is somewhere in these fingers. I celebrated, nay merely observed my 52 year existence this January. Wasn’t as depressing or upsetting as 50, for sure-but the body’s going to shit and I gotta do something about it soon or I won’t see 62. Mentally, I suppose you could say I was doing well in that I am not psychotic nor have I been since last spring where I went to two different hospitals while I came back to earth. I’m taciturn, but typically in a decent mood. I am trying to get back into politics step by step and if I concentrate, I may be able to get this piece of shit blog to turn over and whir back to life-I look back and I was readable, perhaps not the most original thinker or the most prescient analyst but I had fun and a few others did. I started her when I was 38, when the wheels had not quite come off the caboose yet. Come off they did, and basically I swerved from politics to madness in a way that at some point I thought was saleable. I began to piece some of it together in the hopes it would be a small volume, but I eventually realized the politics were dated and the madness too spare.
I said fuck it. And ever since then, the keyboard doesn’t sing. I haven’t been able to put together any good semi-longform blogging like the kind I had churned out in the past. At turns I felt sorry for myself and posted total crap for the sake of posting anything(this is hopefully the last time I do that). I wonder, now that Zuck and Elon have sucked all the fun and relevancy from their respective platforms, will blogging make a comeback? Like it or not, these spaces are all you got left as far as true free speech goes. Here and Substack. All you are missing is that audience. That may be the reason you still cling to your stale accounts. That dopamine hit when someone likes your shit. That’s easy to find in a world where friendships are a mouse click away, but here you have to do more work. The blog is the nether world between social media and journalism.
There might still be a future in it. For me. When I stop being shy, I will return to Substack. For now, I’ll hide here until I got something to say.
The Illogical Seminary 