Fear and Loathing on the Internet: Redux (Part 2)

Part two of the three part series Fear and Loathing on the Internet: Redux (Part one here)

GPod Radio host Joseph Matheny moderates a roundtable discussion on the subject of Myth on the Modern World, with guests: Wes Unruh, James Curcio, John Harrigan, Lucy Allin, P. Emerson Williams and Anna Young. (Note: When I recorded the intros to part one and two, I forgot to mention Wes as a participant in the roundtable. He is however introduced in the actual roundtable piece and is a major contributor to the conversation. My omission was simply due to being overworked with too little time. Hopefully he will not hate me for this oversight. )

Also, the first installment of In Your Ear, some tidbits about the Y project and some ranting and raging in response to the mailbag.

In part three we will introduce another regular segment to the GSpot, A Concise Guide To Setting Yourself On Fire

with Kara Rae Garland.

Part Three coming in about 2 weeks. Enjoy!

Yeah, yeah. Anarchy, rules suck, chaos poetry, blah-blah-blah. Good Got it all out of your systems now?

So, way back in the stone age (2002) I started a personal blog called sTaRe, which eventually grew into a moblog and then a network and it was like herding cats. Endless squabbles between writers about who went “above the fold”, ex-girlfriends trolling the site and so called freethinker participants looking for the next yellow journalism style scandal (including encouraging the exs), coupled with a workload that had me rising at 4am to start scavenging through newsfeeds, looking for the next story, always trying to top the last big story to take the traffic to the next level or at least maintain the crazy numbers we had attained and BLAM! I was tired, done and bored shitless. It had become a job. Bleh. Besides, because I chose to run the blog on my server, incunabula.org the blog was forever doomed to be trafficked and critiqued by the paranormal-conspiranoia-occultist-tin-foil-hat-crowd. Double bleh.

So, I killed sTaRe and ran a bunch of other projects which were goal oriented, such as using blogs to write a new form of a novel (el centro), audio/video and torrent distro (greylodge, incunabula audio, Alterati and some others I have yet to step forward and take credit for). Plus, I went back to work in the tech industry and had less spare time.

I also neglected keeping my personal website current, so finally I decided to open up a personal blog, slowly integrate the elements of my personal website and update it with things that I have a closet full of that have not yet seen the light of the Internet. I will do this all as time allows. On my own time on my own terms.

Which brings me to another reason I stopped personally blogging  years ago. I grew tired of the whining and moaning that erupted if I skipped a day or a few days between posts. Hell, speculation would even arise as to the “real reason” I had stopped posting. Whatever. if you post a comment bemoaning my lack of chop-chop-punctuality in posting every 5 minutes, talking about my hemorrhoids and the behaviors of my dog, your comment will be deleted. Yes, that’s right. Deleted and then ignored. I will post what I want, when I want, how I want. Period.

Any questions? I thought not.

Have a nice day.