Query

Question: is this blog defunct? Quite possibly. It's all relative, but I set the mark awfully high by going a straight month plus making, approximately, on average, a post a day. Now, broadly speaking, there are two sorts of blogs, those devoted to navel-gazing, autobiographical, public diaries--inward looking. Then there are those which are devoted to a particular subject, news, commentary, and humor on a specific topic or more broadly popular culture or world events--outward looking. Either type will typically have a distinct element of the other, but I think the dichotomy I've set up is basically valid, or, say, a useful framework.

Anyhow, in these blogs of self-obsession (which I think really they are, I'm not a fan of the concept) for there to be gaps of weeks or even months is not basically problematic. It just determines the level of focus the blog fixes upon its subject...a thrice-daily exhibitionism or a thrice-yearly one? To belabor the point, that is not the sort of blog I wish to produce. I am supremely capable of it, being one inclined towards self-obsession and self-examination. However I recognize these to be flaws that ought not to be wallowed in (yes, even self-examination, if it is taken to an extreme as it is in my own case--it can be deceptive and crippling as to taking real actions). Most fundamentally a blog is public, and I can only suppose that individuals who keep even vaguely self-revelatory information in convenient reverse chronological order for their friends and peers to gaze somewhat disgustedly on possess a sort of solipsism that prevents them from really believing that what is posted on the internet indeed can and frequently is read by others. Oh enough of this. I've gotten across my distaste in a general sense at least.

If our dear Meth Caucus is instead a place meant to chronicle Your Correspondent's take on news of politics, world affairs, phenomena of popular culture, occasional pretentious application of critical theory to perceived sociocultural trends...that's more of a thing one ought to keep up with. If one's goal were nurturing a blog which had a humble or humongous following, consistency in reportage would be essential. But I don't really have any such ambitions. If I found myself in that position in some sudden and miraculous fashion I'd be glad of it, but it is not such a goal of mine that I have any interest in doing the legwork necessary to gain such a following...self-promotion, diligent networking, and so forth.

The true facts are that half of the visitors to our dear Meth Caucus come here via Google image search, to borrow from it a fine vintage image of Ice Cube with jeri-curl and a half-empty forty ounce bottle of malt liquor. But a handful of people do show up here somehow or another, and will at least skim what is written...do I find that gratifying? No. I have had work published. Vastly more eyes see what I have written when I comment upon an article on Gawker or their associated blogs. Why then to proceed?

I see no reason. However occasionally I suppose I will feel compelled to make some comment on a news story, and when that happens, I suppose I will do so.

Obviously I just like the sound of my own written-voice.

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I have to come up with something to say after a lull in my blogging other than "Oh noes! I've been neglecting my blahgging!" That shiz iz stupes, yo. I apologize, the things I type are sometimes stupifyingly inane because I was born during the eighties, which makes me a member of Generation Y, as depicted in the Diablo Cody-penned film Juno in a somewhat exaggerated form.

So...we had an election and stuff. But the nation still appears to be on the highway to hell (ac/dc roolz), so I guess I'm just ambivalent. As to personal life, the good news is I'm feeling great. The bad news is I'm coming up from a two week or so period of lethargy, anxiety, and blahness...and I'm somewhat hypochondriacally worrying that I'm having some sort of late-onset bipolar disorder. Honestly, if that's the case, I think that totes beats just depression period. Hoo nose.

I skimmed this article saying that Obama's election represents the death of hipsterism because sincerity is replacing cynicism among the youth of the nation. It makes a good point, but I think hipsterdom could just be entering into a transistional phase where their ilk becomes less dominated by the cynical Gen-X influenced people who are growing up and moving to the suburbs and are being replaced by the Gen-Y types who are coming up and are plenty postmodern and ironic, but are still sincere and care about helping people and doing good things and stuff. It's like, y'know, postmodernism is about local, small, concrete action whereas modernism is about a grand narrative of revolutionary change...so the crest of hipsterdom is yet to come, but it will be politically active in a small-scale, volunteerism, Jesus-y service way whereas hippies were about marches and revolutions and manifestoes and grand theories and power complexes and shit. Like if you're going to tear down a wall, it's more effective to make tiny little chips than it is to just push really hard on it or yell at it.

Some one should beat the shit out of me for writing those last few sentences. That's so fucking jejune, speculating about critical theory and generational change and political action. Don't actually beat the shit out of me, but I deserve to be, in theory.

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