Am I back?

Maybe.  I'm not sure.  I feel like I have something to say even though I know no one is really listening.   Blogs are dead and Twitter killed them.  I know.  We're in a 140 character world and I'm not doing that.  I first heard about Twitter when it launched and I was intrigued.  Now I think its shallow, vapid and far, far worse than the blogosphere ever was at its nadir.  I'll stay here and grind it out in The Outer Darkness of the internet.  I've never garnered a following worth anything and for good reason.  My content has mostly been half assed and dashed off stuff like this. 

If you're reading this, I'm wondering why.  Anyway.  I've been thinking about this for a long time and the reason I could never really get any traction here is that in order to do so I'd have to have some exceptional insight into politics (I rarely do.  If ever) or I'd have to tell a compelling personal story.  I'm too much of a private person to open those floodgates but if I were to write it, it would probably be pretty good. 

To that end, I think I'm going to take the middle road (how boring!) of talking about politics where I have something to get off my chest and try and talk about personal stuff in a more broad sense.  That is, I'll talk about parenting, but not my kids specifically.  Maybe that'll work. 

Comments

Jeff the Baptist said…
Well I look forward to hearing from you either way.
10:42 AM
The Last Ephor said…
Thank you. I expected this post to go unread by humans until the last days of the universe. I do miss the old days of the DE blogosphere.
8:14 AM
Jeff the Baptist said…
I miss the DE blogosphere too, although I haven't written anything on my blog since my son was born over 8 years ago.
9:51 AM
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