Semi-Initial Blog Post

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 Unreliable Zygote, and an earlier blog called Hubba Hubba. I guess what feels different now is that there isn’t the feeling of participating in any sort of zeitgeist. Which is fine. I’m looking for something utilitarian. So, with that in mind, this blog, called Aux., will be a place to put writing I’d like to pursue making more of. This is going to be mainly a place in which I’ll put writing on poetry, music, culture, and politics. Those are the things that I think about the most. The writing is probably going to take the form of reviews or essays, or odd pieces that are neither. So there you go. I might get cold and put my sweater on. I’ll try to let you know.