Welcome to Postcards of the Hanging.

Okay, as promised, I abandoned and deleted the old place. In fact, I deleted nearly six years worth of archives with it. I know I'm going to regret that someday soon, but I like the idea of starting fresh. Other than what's cached on the web, everything I've ever written for the public is gone forever.


After a while, the Enjoy Every Sandwich experience was starting to feel as though I was saying the same things over and over again, and had been for several years. Without the archives being readily available, I may escape that trap. Or I may not. We'll see, won't we?


I still haven't decided how I'm going to do this, but I do know that the subject matter isn't going to change a great deal from my previous blogs. If I'm not interested in what I'm writing, chances are that you aren't either. I'm still going to write about politics, popular culture, music and the wonderful world of sex. In that, very little will change.


What probably will change is that I'm going to try to make this blog less about my actual life than I previously did. Other than my friend Dr. Reverend, who lives to be written about, I'm going to try to keep other people out of it. In a way, that's too bad, because there are some great stories that are going to be lost forever, but my dopey blogging hobby shouldn't impact anybody's life but my own.


For the time being, comments are going to be completely moderated. If your input doesn't appear for awhile, that's why. One of the decisions that I've made in the last couple of weeks is that I'm not going to spend anything like the amount of time on this that I have previously.


As for links, it may take some time for those to appear as well. My last blogspot blog had a custom-built template, which I knew how to modify fairly well. But I've never dealt with a standard blogspot template on my own before and I'm reluctant to experiment, lest I ruin something that I can't fix. There are some really gifted folks out there that you should be reading, and as soon as I can figure out how, I'll let you know who they are. Perhaps the good Doctor can give me quick HTML tutorial in the coming weeks.


In all likelihood, I won't be posting as often as I did previously. I want to concentrate on being a better writer, and with the length of some of my essays, that's going to take some time. In the past, what you saw was a first draft that was quickly edited after I published. That seemed to impress the people who knew how I worked, but it didn't help the quality of my writing any.


As much as I hate to admit it, I wanted the instant gratification of traffic and comments, and that caused me to rush things more than I otherwise would. As I write this, I really don't care about traffic. I really grew to enjoy the ten or fifteen people who would read and comment regularly and the exchanges that took place in the comments. Missing that is one of the only reasons that I'm trying this again.


One of thing recurring comments that I've received is that I have a unique perspective or an original voice. I'm not so sure of that, but I appreciate the sentiment. What I might try doing is explaining why I think the way I do and what influences me. That might take the form of reviews of various sorts, or it might not.


In setting this place up, I found that blogger now allows for upwards of 100 co-posters, which is something that I might experiment with, but haven't yet made a final decision about. If I write something that you'd like to make an extended reply to, I'm certainly open to the idea. However, I'd like to initially like to limit to that to people I know personally or as long-time readers.


Let's see how this works out, shall we?