New Blog for a New Year

I’ve decided to archive Blue Streak and start a new blog (a. whole. new. blog.) at WordPress. 

You can find me here – http://neargh.wordpress.com/ - while I figure things out. 

Blue Streak will be archived at http://bluebelle.wordpress.com/, just ’cause I couldn’t get my head around the idea of losing almost 5 years’ worth of something I spent my limited creativity on, and took the trouble to move to three different platforms in that time.

My solution to the Blahs – start a new blog. 

Please update your blogrolls if I’m on ‘em – once I contact TypePad, they’ll delete this entire thing.  I’ll be doing that after the New Year. 

Thanks for your kind attention and support, and Happy Holidays!

Yeah, yeah

I know, I know.  I still suck.  I’m a busy bee out here in homelesspeopleland.  Anyway, I changed my email again, for those who care.  Accessible via the Email Me link up top or within the ‘About’ section.  Be of good cheer, Blue-Staters – mid-term election coming up, let’s hope for some blowback!  Peace.

Ch-ch-ch-changes. Maybe.

Last night I wrote long post about changes, the new year, my world, my work, etc. etc.  I hit Post and Typepad came back with a message telling me they were undergoing maintenance and I would not be able to access my account.  Bleh.

The gist:  the two main things in my life are my relationship & my work.  I don’t blog much about either, leaving me with very little to say.  I’m looking to change that, as otherwise there’s little point in keeping this site.

Last night’s was better, but this one’s more succinct.

Let me tell you …

… how not online I’ve been:  Yahoo closed my email account.  So now I’ve got a new email for this blog.  If you’ve been trying to reach me (and what are the odds, really?), I’m sorry but I haven’t gotten any messages.  Nor will I.  Apologies & a pox upon my house.

How how how?

How do they find the time to blog so frequently?  One, two, three, ten entries or more a day every day?  I just don’t know.

For me, it’s a banner week if I get in one.  And manage to actually READ the new posts on my Bloglines list.  Which I have yet to actually do – I mean, there are always a few blogs left unread …

Perhaps I need to increase my caffeine intake. 

I’m up way past my bedtime.  Nighty night.

occasionally embarrassing, but sometimes better than i thought

I just took a little walk down memory lane. 

When I read my old blog posts, I’m often overwhelmed with embarrassment or shame over how naive, uninformed, clueless, badly written, did I say naive? I can be.  But every once in a while I read one and say, "Hey!  That’s okay!  It almost sounds like a different, better writer!"  And that’s kind of cool.

I used to write longer, more introspective posts.  Nowadays, it’s a short reference to something someone else said, or a feeble attempt at irony.  I enjoyed blogging more when I was yammering on idealistically.  But I was out of work then, and had more free time.  But then I wonder how it is that so many gainfully employed, clearly very busy, clearly very active, bloggers out there manage to post CONSTANTLY and with a fairly high quality of writing (and content) – some days even a dozen longish posts on Very Important Topics – to my one half-assed post in a month.  I can’t even come up with one sentence on Johnny Carson (God Rest His Soul & damn, he was good).

I’m back. After a fashion.

Dear Blogdom,

My old site (talkabluestreak-dot-com) is dead. Comment spam conspired with a non-responsive web service provider to commit murder of one wonky geek’s dreamy bloggy dreams. I’m giving Typepad a try, but forgive me if my blogrolls have not yet followed me.

I want you to know I’ve never stopped loving you, reading you, admiring your turns of phrase. You may have forgotten me, but I have never forgotten you.

You rock.

Love,

Devra

Is the English dead? Looks dead.

If anyone was wondering, you can tell them the comment spam killed me.

Actually, I was locked out for a while thanks to a problematic MT upgrade which has been temporarily reversed. But that’s just July. Prior to that it was just embarrassment, pure & simple. God, I hope this gets cleaned up and straightened out before the election. I’d at least like to be able to gloat online when Kerry wins.

If you don’t hear from me until then, blame my web guy.

Open Letter to Stale-Thread Commenters

Dear Commenters to posts from 2001 through 2003 who must have your say NOW in 2004,

Thank you for googling something unrelated and clicking on a link to a post I wrote one year, two years, or three years ago. I want you to know I really really appreciate your interest in something I said a long time ago to which you are responding with your present-day knowledge of events. I also want you to know I really really appreciate your insight into my psyche, political leaning, and/or spiritual beliefs based upon some throwaway comment I made about an article on Michael Jackson in 2002 or a little bit of navel-gazing I shared in 2001. Really, you couldn’t be more helpful.

Thank you, spammers, for making random, nonsensical, hyperlinked comments to stale threads. It certainly keeps my inbox lively. Nothing but hours of deleting fun for the whole family. Maybe I can save you some time: I don’t need any Via*ra, cheap Tram*dol, Phent**mine, S*ma, Pax*l, Proz*c, Ci*lis, Prop*cia, Lev*tra, or access to online g*mbling. But I really really REALLY appreciate the THOUSANDS of offers. Really.

I’d like to thank a few folks personally.

To Micah: Thank you for posting to a dead thread. I really appreciate your half-assed, uninformed mouthing-off about what I do or do not do about the environment based upon 15 month-old musings about my local zoo.

To Cannanore: Thank you for coming all the way over here to piss on Teresa Kerry a year after I mentioned her. You’re a class act.

To Sam, Michaela, Jesse, ‘HES THE BEST’, and all the other fun kids posting to that Michael Jackson news item from 2002: Thank you so much for clicking on every single link Google has regarding Mr. Jackson. How many hundreds of pages did you have to scroll through to find my site? You do realize I didn’t WRITE the news story, don’t you? Go back to your Neopets and leave me alone.

Best regards and have a very newsworthy 2004 when you get around to it in 2006,

Devra

Perhaps I spoke too soon.

I may not be going anywhere, after all. And comments may return.

At this rate, might we see the return of Blog of the Week? Who knows …

Damn. I really do miss comments. *sniff*

Update: And there they are.