Well – it’s been a while. Like, over three years in a while.
Yikes. That’s what some might call a serious lapse. That’s what I’d call a serious lapse.
Which isn't all that uncommon, I guess, blogosphere-wise.
Defunct blogs litter the gutters of the internet like so many Styrofoam cups on
the roadside. (Or those funny orange garbage bags one sometimes sees on the
freeway.)
Some bloggers run out of time to dedicate to their blog.
Others run out of ideas. Or passion. (Or financial resources, if they’re
seriously dedicated bloggers bent on advertising, etc.) I kind of gave in to all
of the first three.
I started the blog back ’08. Back then it was called “The
Random Arts Blog”, and I had the crazy notion that I would post multiple time
per week on topics strictly tied to the arts. I had a bit of free time on my
hands, shall we say (in other words, I was unemployed), and figured that I was
up to the challenge. Yee-haw, right?
Problem was: I soon got a job. Free time got rarer. And –
lough and behold – I suddenly realized that that goal of “multiple posts a week”
on artistic topics was a hard thing for one guy to keep up in the wee hours or
the morning and night. So the posts dwindled in
frequency. And creativity. (Go ahead. Take a look. The last few months before
the extended hiatus in ’09 are creatively paltry. And I’m being kind on
myself.)
And yet, given a little time, the ideas started percolating in
the old noggin’ again. News stories would occasionally crop up that interested
me, or I’d encounter a book or a movie or some other issue within life’s tangle
that practically begged for a blog entry.
So, here I am again.
I have learned a little something, anyway – at least about
deadlines. This time out, I can’t promise multiple updates per week. Rather,
the update ‘schedule’ (if I can call it that) will be as random as my blog’s
title suggests: specifically, whenever I feel as though I have something worth
saying. Whether that will be something you deem worth reading, though, I leave
for you to discover.
