Riddle Me Middles

A Fork in the Blog

April 20th, 2008 at 1:31 am (Unaussprechlichen)

I’ve come to a fork in the blog.

Part of the difficulty I’ve always had with this particular vehicle for my voice is that it’s attached to my real name; which is attached to my resume, my past, and my future, and to the stories I write, and the places they are, were, and will be printed.

And the thing is, I have no problem letting my ideological views out into the open, or certain quirks of my life with them: these are things people are going to find out anyway, and ones pretty central to my life. Other aspects are a little more problematic. I don’t want every last little detail of my experiences to become so public. And that’s been nagging at me lately. There are things I’d like to have spoken that I didn’t because my name was in the way.

Furthermore, in connection with an exciting announcement I’m going to make soon, my public life might begin to get more attention than it used to.

When I first sat down to write this thing, I sat down to write a blog that’s primarily about microcosms and macrocosms; about personal lives and grand sweeping theories. A captured train of thought, a sort of meta-calling-card — something people could click on when they saw my name in a comment, and visit to find out a little bit more about the author of that comment.

But different areas of interest are pulling my posts in different directions, and I don’t want to give either side short shrift. So, from here on out — my participation in Ye Blogospheric Pub Brawls is going to take another form. The name and nature of that form is confidential, because that’s part of the point, but if you’re someone I’ve participated with in said pub brawls, it won’t be too hard for you to figure out.

So what’s going to be happening along this side of the fork? Basically, a serious change of subject. My first posts were about writing. I’m going to be focusing back in on that. It’s the core of my reason for being here. I’ll be de-linking a lot of people who will then get linked on the other blog, and linking others who haven’t been listed before.