Friday, December 3, 2004 |
10:06 - Nice day for it
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Everyone else seems to be falling into a bit of a lull in posting lately... and I guess it stands to reason why. I'm feeling the same urge. Or if it isn't the same urge, it's one with a similar result.
Now that the election's over, I've found myself thinking back over these past three years (wow, my third blogiversary is coming up), and realizing how the tone and focus of what I've written about has changed. I started out primarily writing naïve and heartfelt tracts about Apple and screeds against Microsoft, with the occasional pointer to some silly thing or other found on the Web. Ever since about eighteen months ago, though, I found myself focusing on politics to a degree that would have horrified the me of the halcyon days, as halcyon as the weeks immediately following 9/11 can have been.
It's because it all seemed so crucially important—there was always the feeling that it was leading up to something, to such an extent that I couldn't drop my guard or let up on the offensive for even a week's vacation. And it was. The election's over now, and it's let out all the stress. All of it. Far from taking months to cool down, it's like the overinflated balloon of desperate verbage has deflated in Internet time—less than a month on and the campaign and the election already feel as distant as Monicagate. So, frankly, does all the urgency of the need to post more political stuff. Now, it's like, the world can take care of itself... and now it's time to watch some movies and look for cool Mac gadgets and other techno-coolness.
I don't imagine I'll be materially changing the content of what I write here, permanently, or very much... but I do imagine that at least for a couple of weeks there won't be a whole lot of big substantive juicy stuff. I need to rebuild my energy first.
Of course, it could also be that I'm embroiled in the new book, which is already available at Amazon, rather laughably, since I've only written a quarter of it so far.
But I guess that's Internet time for you.
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