So, I'm at it once again. And once again, the good times will likely be short-lived. To wit, a short recap of my blogging history:
Blog #1: Unremarkables
Reason for name: It was the most self-effacing thing I could think of in the heady few minutes after I decided that the answer to all my problems was as simple as airing them out on the internet.
Length of blog: About 8 months.
Topics discussed: Red Sox' Miracle Run of '04 (I called the win after Game 4 of the ALCS, mind you), John Kerry's Debacle of '04, Loneliness, Inept Attempts at Dating, Favorite TV Shows, Harry Potter
Readers: Adam (once a day), me (dozens of time an hour)
Reason for deleting it: My old boss was sniffing around it. He was one crazy sumbitch.
Blog #2: Gilmore Girls as Cats
Reason for name: While still on The Daily Show, Stephen Colbert made a joke about all blogs being about Gilmore Girls, cats or a combination of the two. I loved everything about that.
Length of blog: I took it down after about a year, but I only posted about 9 times total.
Topics discussed: The Real World (the irrelevant tv show - I know!), Harry Potter, Loneliness, Deja Vu Encounters with That One Guy at Fubar, A List of Songs I Liked? (yeah, I really had nothing)
Readers: Adam for a couple of weeks before he became a blogging juggernaut and got bored with me; me for a couple of weeks before Adam became a blogging juggernaut and the whole concept of blogging horrified me
Reason for deleting it: If there was such a thing as wasting space on the internet, Gilmore Girls as Cats would have been one of the worst offenders.
Blog #3: Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying
Reason for Name: It's one of my most favoritest Belle & Sebastian songs. It's about getting me away from here because of all my dying. I related to that and (SPOILER!) I totally am almost possibly going to do something about it if things break the way I need them to. But maybe not, because really, what's so wrong with dying? And here's totally as good a place as any to do what we're all destined to do, I suppose.
Length of Blog: It was online for about a year.
Topics Discussed: My first post was a long list of reasons why I was kind of excited to get back in the blogging game. There were no more posts.
Readers: I created it while drunk and forgot it existed. Eventually, I got drunk again and decided to start a new blog and saw this one was there.
Reason for deleting it: Despite its great title, it really had nothing going for it.
Blog #4: This is not a blog
Reason for Name: I was drunk, and apparently not listening to a good enough song to gain inspiration. I know: lame!
Length of Blog: It was online for three months.
Topics Discussed: Blogging and how boring it is. Wow. My last three blogs have all started in a very meta-y fashion. That does not bode well for this one!
Readers: Me, once.
Reason for deleting it: There's only so many one-post blogs that can live on the internet at one time.
Blog #4: 6 Foot Tall, East Coast Bred
Reason for Name: Andrew Bird is a sexy musical Jesus-like figure. This is a line from his song "Fake Palindromes," which has the best crashing violins you've ever heard. It mostly applies to me, if you add two inches. I really wish I wasn't so immature that the word "inches" automatically makes me think of penises. But I'm not.
Length of Blog: For all eternity, or until I inevitably delete it.
Topics Discussed: Hopefully, a successful move to San Francisco...
Readers: I am totally going to send a link to Adam. That will instantly allow me to recapture the vast audiences that Blogs #1 and #2 boasted.
Reason for deleting it: We'll all find out together.
So, you are almost certainly not asking yourself, why am I back? Because it's easy, The Wire doesn't come On Demand for another 20 minutes, and I don't want to update my resume right now. I don't know. You don't care. Don't come back! I probably won't.
