Not A Blog™

So a week into my return things seem to be going pretty well. I can’t say anything about the long-termed-ness of consistent writing, but I’ll do what I can. It’s that exact problem which has been bugging me since before I relaunched this. How to pace myself? How, indeed.

What I’d like to do is take the weekends to write a majority of the material for the upcoming week. I’d also like to get on a more regular schedule so you, my four readers, will know when to expect things. As it stands, I update almost every day. My goal when I started this almost two years ago now was—I absolutely am not making this up—to post “almost every day”. Naturally, the subjectiveness of this goal meant that “almost every day” changed from meaning “an average of five posts per seven days” to “a post once every couple’a months”. It didn’t work. Or rather, it did work while I had momentum which turned out to have lasted a surprisingly long time.

In a step toward this eventual destination, I decided to do something about the weekends. On weekends, I like to have the option of slacking off 100% of the time. This means not writing a word if I don’t feel like it, Not A Blog™ included. On the other hand, even when I do write over the weekend, I like to use that material later in the week, as a contingency plan in case there is a horrible emergency of some sort and I’m unnable to write some evening. Horrible emergencies include: drinking, going to the bar, and drinking.

So here’s what I’m going to do, and if you’d be so inclined, I’d like the four of you to help out. Also, if anyone else reading this has read older stuff that was around in the past years of do-it-myself web design, you can help, too.

Despite what I said earlier this week, I’m going to start bringing back old posts, one at a time, over the weekend. The biggest upside to this is that I don’t have to write any new material over the weekend, but I still get to fill out the cool calendar at the bottom. The second biggest upside is that I only have to bring back the good stuff, and let the flops disappear into the Google-cache aether, thus raising the total level of quality on this blog. (Besides, I need it to offset the new crap I’m currently writing.)

Starting this weekend I’m doing reruns. So I’d like suggestions of where to start. I’ve got personal favorites, sure. But I want to know what you guys liked. (Presuming, of course, that you liked any of it.) Let me know, preferably in the form of lenghty lists, so that I can put off making actual decisions as long as possible.

Then enjoy the same old blather over the weekend that you read a year and a half ago. Hey, it’s all Hollywood ever does, right? So why not us?

-Ted