I Pray You All Forgive This Shameless Self-Promotion
Mar 23, 2019 14:07:21 GMT
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I finally finished setting up a new, more clean and respectable Wordpress blog. It's designed as a medium to store my writing, so as a result it's a bit varied in terms of topics (politics, media/film analyses and random offshoots). If you enjoyed my posts from EH and PSF you might like it. If you didn't get a chance to see some of my stuff from there, I'll reupload some of it here.
If you were among those who followed my previous two blogs, I apologize for abandoning ship soon after starting them. The reason I did not keep up with my previous two attempts is because I hated Blogger itself. It looked cheap, I couldn't edit things I wanted to and the domain itself doesn't carry much respect. Beyond that, I feel like those first two attempts I was only just figuring things out and I made a lot of mistakes as a result. I made too many tags, my posts were too long, I used an image for a background, etc. I figure it was simpler to just fold those flawed, early attempts and do it right the third time around.
This time I'll update a lot more reliably--I have to, in order to justify shelling out for that domain name
Speaking of names, the name of this blog comes from a phrase out of The Empire Strikes Back I always thought sounded cool. I didn't go into this in the blog itself, but that image of Han Solo, defeated and vulnerable, after being the one who saved Luke and Leia countless times up to that point in the story...that had a profound impact on me. As far as Im concerned, it's one of the most tragic images in all of film, the cinematic equivalent to O'Brien's "boot stamping on a face forever" speech. To a young adult who grew up on good Star Wars and came into adulthood as the country succumbed to authoritarian surveillance, that scene and what it stands for was an emblematic call to arms. (Forgive me for getting topical for a moment.)
I'll still try to post here too from time to time. I really appreciate making a new forum and everything, it's just that I'd like to do something more with my writing going forward than sharing it on an ill-fitted outlet like a Beach Boys forum. (And, as often as not, get heckled for my efforts )
I finally finished setting up a new, more clean and respectable Wordpress blog. It's designed as a medium to store my writing, so as a result it's a bit varied in terms of topics (politics, media/film analyses and random offshoots). If you enjoyed my posts from EH and PSF you might like it. If you didn't get a chance to see some of my stuff from there, I'll reupload some of it here.
If you were among those who followed my previous two blogs, I apologize for abandoning ship soon after starting them. The reason I did not keep up with my previous two attempts is because I hated Blogger itself. It looked cheap, I couldn't edit things I wanted to and the domain itself doesn't carry much respect. Beyond that, I feel like those first two attempts I was only just figuring things out and I made a lot of mistakes as a result. I made too many tags, my posts were too long, I used an image for a background, etc. I figure it was simpler to just fold those flawed, early attempts and do it right the third time around.
This time I'll update a lot more reliably--I have to, in order to justify shelling out for that domain name
Speaking of names, the name of this blog comes from a phrase out of The Empire Strikes Back I always thought sounded cool. I didn't go into this in the blog itself, but that image of Han Solo, defeated and vulnerable, after being the one who saved Luke and Leia countless times up to that point in the story...that had a profound impact on me. As far as Im concerned, it's one of the most tragic images in all of film, the cinematic equivalent to O'Brien's "boot stamping on a face forever" speech. To a young adult who grew up on good Star Wars and came into adulthood as the country succumbed to authoritarian surveillance, that scene and what it stands for was an emblematic call to arms. (Forgive me for getting topical for a moment.)
I'll still try to post here too from time to time. I really appreciate making a new forum and everything, it's just that I'd like to do something more with my writing going forward than sharing it on an ill-fitted outlet like a Beach Boys forum. (And, as often as not, get heckled for my efforts )