16 Grumbles

I’d really been hoping to announce on the blog’s birthday a couple of weeks back
that it would finally be returning to a regular flow of content.

That last word has devolved into a rather hollow one, with page impressions crucial
to ad revenue and much of social media — be it a business model unto itself or engagement in support of personal or corporate branding — driven by a mantra of continuing to feed the beast lest attention slip. I remember when it was a marker of value and productivity: “This boxed set / omnibus / deluxe edition is chock full of great bonus content!” I’m optimistic that the aggregated material here provides value to anyone who stops by and pokes around even if my productivity took a serious dive
years ago.

I recently got back to cleaning up old entries and lining up enough new ones that it made sense to me to celebrate at least a soft revival in some retrospective posts. You can guess how that went by my tone right now. Which doesn’t mean the aforementioned stuff won’t see the virtual light of day once I’ve proven to myself that a reliable, consistent schedule can be achieved. I hain’t given up yet.


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