On Deleting Typepad
Maybe I should do a chart, a layered graph that somehow illustrates via very clear lines, the direct correlation between my blogging, writing and my life. A year or two ago, I even wrote an entire post positing that there is a direct inverse relationship between the happiness that someone has and the artistic output that they have. Do happy people make good art? My guess is, not most of the time, but that seems like something that should be more in the realm of Malcolm Gladwell and not something necessary for a once a year blogger like myself to explore.
Never mind, I’m getting completely off the topic of what I was intending to do. Which is to explain, for posterity, why I’ve closed my typepad blog and revised this former movie review site.
I think it was all too fragmented. All too much over the place. Now I’m going to just try and stick everything here in one place. Furthermore, I’m trying to capture automatically all of the things that I’m doing elsewhere anyway. posting pictures on flickr, bookmarking delicious, google reader shared items.
Why do you care? You probably don’t.
I’ve gone through my old posts, deleted all the dumb shit that said “Oh, hey, I haven’t posted for ten years, and I’m not going here. Just here to say hey.” Links to reviews elsewhere have also been deleted. You know, that kind of thing. So what exists here is a record of the kinds of posts that I enjoyed writing over the past seven years or so (YIKES).
A few things, I’ve noticed in reviewing the 1200+ posts that I filtered through, edited and deleted. (Which incidentally took probably 30 hours of work. It was an unbelievable amount of time to go through that much writing and decide what was worth saving.)
1. I, among many others I’m guessing, was doing a “proto-twitter” kind of thing where I would write one line as a blog. I’ve kept a handful of these in the archives, but deleted some.
2. I was sorry to delete some of the more lively comments. This was because the posts that invoked said comments were lame.
3. I was stupid. Jeez, some of the posts I did were very dumb, especially early on. I’ve kept these.
There will be more to come. More writing, more fun. Maybe a new movie review here and there. A personal post about being a new parent. You know, that kind of thing.