Aux.

Blogs are kind of weird now. In the first part of this century, they were very common. They covered every imaginable topic and there numbers were voluminous, being a ‘democratization’ of discourse. They were used as diaries and as places to review movies. They were used as places to put recipes, or to put motorcycle reviews, and motorcycle news. Celebrity gossip. Personal beefs. Now all of that discourse, or most of it, has been sunk into social media. Social media has innovated its own forms and peculiar prosody, but its also a more interactive and much more sophisticated form of surveillance than blogs ever were. Blogs now are seen as largely outmoded. People whether in the arts or politics or whatever speak in the past tense of when blogs were of consequence, ‘back in the oughts’ etc. ‘Back in the days of Silliman’s Blog and K-punk’ etc. It feels weird to start a blog now, but I want somewhere to put writing that isn’t in anyone’s feed. I’ve done blogs before, one that was called Un