This is about my fourth attempt at starting a blog, and with two magnificent posts in two months its going swimmingly, in a lead fish kinda way.
C'mere and let me recount the history of my attempts.
First off, back in pre web2.0, I had a domain I bought for a cool email address which came with a free bit of hosting so I wrote random rants and stuck them up there and also got people I knew to write me stories of drunkness and cruelty, which I also published. this was all pre-wordpress, in fact the word blog wasn't invented and also I remember dinosaurs pulling cars.
But that petered out fairly quickly, there was no encouragement really, no tracking, no comments, so it felt a bit like talking to the wall, or Biffo. Actually it was exactly like talking to Biffo except the internet didn't then call me a cuntybollix and try to jump the girl I was into.
Then ages after that, only a couple of years ago, I discovered and read a load of blogs around about. And it brought out the frustrated writer in me, so I cast about for something to write about and settled on my great passion (outside of music and drunkenness); hitting people really hard.
I've been studying martial arts, the punchy kicky kind, for donkeys years and I thought I'd do a bit of an auld blog on the mechanics and theory behind hitting people. It was shocking dull stuff, and worse, the more I wrote and thought about it the harder it became to write anything that I could stand over. The subject matter was just way too complex, the human body in motion is pretty much impervious to even the most simple stripped down physics generalisations.
I've just checked and its still there, I thought wordpress would have trashed it ages ago. It has a good start but introduces a faulty concept almost from the very beginning, so its probably a good thing that I didn't spent any more time writing posts that would have to be totally revised.
I might even go back and see if I can bash it into something useful one of the days. Very enthusiastic today for some reason.
My third attempt is still current, if not updated very often. It started as a weird post-modern self-referential recursive thingy - that's about as many redundancies as I can think of, if you have another way of saying self-referential then let me know and I'll edit it into this bad boy. The blog was a blog about using the blog layout for the Joomla CMS and the posts were there to give me something to work with, while also scratching that writery itch.
I experimented a good bit with that blog, at first it was all just technical stuff, but when there was nothing to say I just prattled on and it turned into a personal blog. Then I tried a tiny bit of fucked up dream fiction, which I never finished and its better that way because it freaked me out and I had no idea what I was doing or what I wanted from it.
This blog is for things I can't write on the other blog because the other one is not anonymous, there's probably family and everything throwing the occasional eye to it. Not that the lousy bastards would deign to comment. fuckers.
And memories. I've a head full these snapshots, moments that felt like moments at the time and stuck with stories hanging off them. If I could just drag them out, when they float up from the murky.
