Becoming Whatever

One and Three Chairs, Joseph Kosuth (1965).

I personally recommend reading this in conjunction with the “About” page, but feel free to engage with this blog in whatever way brings you the most joy and fulfillment. That is, at the end of the day, the ultimate guiding principle for reading and interacting with this blog.

If you expect to find a common through-thread among the posts on this blog, then do not expect to be satisfied anytime soon. I am someone who thinks about many different things for sporadic amounts of time. Rather, perhaps read the “through-thread” as being simply, things that I am thinking about at the time of writing. Or, more likely, by the time I am actually writing a blog post about a thing, I am probably mentally beyond that thing. So instead, perhaps read these posts as things that I was at one point in time thinking about.

Click all the hyperlinks. It is a toss-up between whether they lead to an explanation, or a joke, or a niche reference. But regardless, I put them there for a reason. The links are just as much a part of my writing as my writing itself. Ignoring the links is like ignoring footnotes or endnotes. And if you respond to that with, “well I always ignore footnotes or endnotes,” or something to that effect, then please consider: 1. you are wack, and 2. this blog is likely not meant for you.

Who is this blog meant for? Those of us in this world who care deeply about the mundane, the niche, the oft-overlooked. Those of us who want to know, simply for the sake of knowing.

Relatedly, I highly encourage interaction. Please, comment, share, review, critique to your heart’s content. I welcome all, positive or negative, kind or mean-spirited, and everything in-between!

Perhaps there is nothing more self-centered than publishing my writing in this way. It hinges on the belief that my thoughts are worthy of the audience’s time, uniquely worthwhile. I will accept this folly and write and publish nonetheless. If you shall aim such judgements at me, then I have no choice but to submit. However, I will also say, that maybe there is no escaping these trappings, but maybe also we should not need to seek escape. Maybe this self-centrism is merely the price we must pay for participating in creative society, a toll that we all always pay as we are all always engaging in the act of creation… but I digress.

Welcome to my blog. Enjoy your stay. Come again.