A blog year-in review December 29, 2007

year-in-review as seen at See Jane Compute:

The rule: post the first sentence of the first post for each month. Here are the ones that appear at docublog.

March: Crime shows are one of my dirty pleasures.
April: I am shocked…a little. A little stupefied…but more importantly I don’t even know how to respond to Brorape
May: So many of my concerns about not having things to do, people to see and archives to discover was a much ado about nothing.
June: Well, I am not in Charleston yet… I leave Los Angeles on Saturday and re-enter the cornfields of central Illinois in the early evening.
July: Back from Hawaii and brother’s wedding was beautiful….
August-November: I went silent like the Buddha
December: It has been a while since my last post…approximately 22 days and 4 months.

I live for moments like this… December 18, 2007

It has been a while since my last post…approximately 22 days and 4 months. Sometimes, one needs to go silent…like the Buddha.

In a lot of ways, I have been lost… in thought, teaching, finishing up a textbook, contemplating my career, assessing my priorities in life, thinking about the reality of procreating, training a dog, and thinking about buying a house with my partner.

But in the mean time, I have been found. I just finished all my teaching obligations for the semester, service obligations have come to a temporary halt, and email traffic has diminished. This is the moment I live for…sitting around in my PJ’s and catching up on all that really bad TV I missed. Heavenly….

Stayed tuned for a virtual cornucopia of media criticism coming your way….

We feel fine…the greatest website ever… April 7, 2007

You must go to this website…it monitors blogs all across the world searching for “I feel…..” statements. You can monitor the emotional pulse of the whole wide blogging world! Make sure you check out all the qualitative and quantitative ways you can visually measure how freakin’ sad everyone seems. Cheers!

http://www.wefeelfine.org/

The importance of being…. December 10, 2006

Earnest. This is why I have been avoiding my own contributiuon to the blogosphere. And I wanted to be certain I had something interesting to say about the world. Or a part of the world. I have been passivly gazing at blogs for the last six months…trying to figure out what made me come back to a particular blog or what made me fall alseep while reading another. In the end, I gravitated towards blogs that reflected the essence of the author, addressed a particular audience, opened a space for the interaction of ideas and alerted me to snapshots of our crazy world not on my radar. To be honest, I am a little uncertain about where this blog is going and why I feel an impulse to create an online space of expression. One thing I have learned to count on is my instinct…I’ll just follow that for now.