Since I've started to blog [many thanks to Nikola for getting a blog started for us] I have been wracking my brain about what to write about. What is the focus of this blog. Is it music and culture. Is it day to day observations and opinions. Is it turning drama and gossip into parody. Is it a social commentary on the obtuseness and folly of humanity. Or is it going to be a whatever the fuck you feel like blogging today blog.I personally feel there have to be some focal points which we must use to help guide this blog towards some purpose. I don't want it to be potpourri. B/c it would be easy to say this is a bullshit blog so who cares what we write about. I don't want this to be blog #3,445,222 I want this grain of sand to be a scroll among crumpled up pieces of typewriter paper. [Very quickly: we all know i.e. or id est is Latin for that is well I am starting r.i. or related and interesting] (r.i. Jack Kerouac, a fast typist at 100 words per minute, typed On The Road on a roll of paper so he wouldn't be interrupted by having to change the paper. Within two weeks of starting to write On the Road, Kerouac had one single-spaced paragraph, 120 feet long. Some scholars say the scroll was shelf paper; others contend it was a Thermo-fax roll; another theory is that the roll consisted of sheets of architect’s paper taped together. (Wikipedia, Typewriter)) Don't judge me for copying and pasting from Wiki. I admit lameness.
So, what is my topical agenda you might ask? Specifically and yet broadly: Music, Nature, and Politics. These are the roots. How interesting or entertaining my posts are all depends on the species of the plant. If it is a night blooming cereus they could all be strange and dull except for one spectaular post in the middle of the year. If it is a sundew it could be entertaining year round as each post lures the most intriguing information and digests it to become pure enlightenment.
I don't know how this blog will evolve, but I at least want to start it as a blog full of ideals before it becomes another blog full of whatchamacallits. B/c after all doesn't the word Blog already sound vomitous (vomitous is not a word apparently, yet vomitously is. I don't get grammer).
Blig, Blag, Blug... Blog.
you are way smarter than you give yourself credit for.
ReplyDeletecheck it out, the kerouac scroll was on exhibit at columbia college in chicago. my friend worked on the exhibit for a class.. although this article doesn't specify what type of paper it is, i bet one could find out..
ReplyDeletehttp://www.chitowndailynews.org/Culture/Kerouac_manuscript_on_display_at_Columbia_College,17217