State of the Union – David Ford
It won’t have escaped your notice that posting around here is quite a bit less regular than it once was. The sheer number of posts hasn’t changed much but they tend to come in bursts these days. It’s largely a function of a grad-student week. Monday-Wednesday I’m sufficiently busy that I can’t really justify to myself spending time writing stuff for the blog. Which leaves four days at best where I may or may not write stuff. That’s not likely to change, but I figured it was worth making that explicit.
It also won’t have escaped your notice that I don’t write about music nearly as much as I once did. So it goes… I’m not going to stop or anything, but the pace probably won’t pick up too much either. Things I will try to do in an effort to remedy this include 1) committing to writing one full-length review of an album per week and 2) being more willing to post short-and-sweet reviews of tracks without feeling obliged to discuss the whole record.
Finally, I’m going to write a more short political stuff over the course of the whole week. I can knock that stuff out in 5 minutes and will feel a lot less guilty than if I was spending an hour or two on an album review. I regularly have like 15 tabs open of stuff I think it might be interesting to comment on but haven’t wanted to overload things here. So I tend to let them sit for weeks until I finally close them. Well, no more. It’s not going to be five posts a day or anything, but I’ll probably actually post on those sorts of things a bit more often.
If the political stuff isn’t your thing…well, sorry. But it’s my blog and I’m going to write about what I’m interested in. The music stuff will tend to be from Thursday-Saturday if you just want to stop by on those days.
For everyone, leave a comment if you get a chance. What would you like to hear about? Is the blog jumping off the rails and getting totally lame? Was it ever cool in the first place?