Wow. I’ve been doing a piss-poor job of updating the blog here.
Yeah, yeah, all the normal reasons. Job really stressful. Busy with stuff at home. But ultimately it really is about prioritization: I’ve doing plenty of stuff with my quotations blog, and even my gaming blog has been getting some love.
What I usually do here has traditionally been “my life” (boring), “my pop culture stuff” (uninspiring of late), and “my politics”.
Aha.
Politics has been — a wildly stressful hot mess. Trump & Co. are simultaneously terrifying and fury-inducing in their smug proto-fascism and very direct threat to people I love (and, hell, to me under certain not-necessarily-the-worst-case scenarios). Biden’s problems filled me with existential dread (since somewhat alleviated by Harris — but that’s a whole other set of posts). And, with everything else going on, it’s just hard to write about and face that terror and dread and fury in a way that isn’t just incoherent keyboard smashing.
Sigh.
(And, yes, feel free to mutter “Trump derangement syndrome” … and keep walking on.)
Can’t promise I’ll be more active here, but it’s bubbled to the top of my attention again, so … let’s hope for the best.
This is a stressful time, even for we Canadians. I’ve noticed that as your country swings right, so do we, so I have my fingers crossed that doesn’t happen in either of our countries.
Amen.
Also — MARN! Good to hear from you (even if over troubling topics). Hope you are well!