More on the Big Move

WordPress.com (hopefully) is redirecting the asthewormturns.com domain to the old dpoyesac.wordpress.com domain. Hopefully this is completely transparent to all of you, although (near as I can figure out) it might play havoc with anyone silly enough to use a feed-reader to keep up with my scribblings. But that would be — how many people? Four? [...]

Same Blog, New Digs

For no good reason what-so-ever — other than to see if my limited UNIX chops are up to the task — I’m moving the blog off the WordPress.org host to Laughing Squid in San Fransisco. This will allow to me use the various WordPress plugins and widgets and googaws and doodads that aren’t available to [...]

How to Fix Your Writing

“The Economist Style Guide: 9th Edition” (Profile Books)While I like my complex, structured style, it might be time to explore other ways to communicate using the written word…. But my head thinks in m-dashes & ampersands; semi-colons when ideas need to be piled up for effect; long lists of similar phrases to chart shifts in texture and tone.So maybe there will be ancillary benefits.

Reasons Not to Blog #7, 8

To blog effectively one need to spend too much time dredging the internet for useful stuff — but, much like dragging a river for bodies, all you usually end up with are old tires and abandoned appliances…. Reading blogs is much like watching the car chases broadcast on California news channels; the vast majority of them are boring and uneventful, and a waste of time compared to watching The French Connection again.

Reason not to Blog # 6

The biking is reflected in the title and the banner .jpeg.But this was all before I found out that Florida eats bicyclists alive, through both heat and crazy homicidal drivers — so I never got around to building the sweet Surly singlespeed of my dreams…. So If I do start to blog, maybe my blog name shouldn’t reflect a bicycle and a lifestyle that never materialized.I’m thinking of going with “As The Worm Turns” for no other reason than I think it’s funny.

Reason Not to Blog #5

However, it became apparent quickly that bicycling here in Florida’s state capitol is only an option for the suicidal. People here are crazy once they get in their cars — and, for some odd reason, the only streets with bike lane are the busy main highways with 3 lanes.

Is Blogging Dangerous?

Here’s my brief, contrarian question: are we, as a representative democracy, well-served by allowing just anyone blog about anything they want?Take the (mal-named) War on Terror: to win this war we need — as opposed to a conventional war where winning just means killing more of them than they kill of us — to eradicate the very roots that give rise to mujaheddin and Al Queda…. To simplistic thinkers on the Left (MIchael Moore and too-smart-for-his-own-good Noam Chomsky) the source of terror is purely economic in origin — usually viewed as a shallow story about us exploiting them for oil.

To Blog: More Con

But when I use an old Windows machine with a version of Internet Explorer just desperate for an update — I have posts with different font sizes. The Jerry Falwell post, and posts below, are gigantic while the newer posts are more moderate.Stupid CSS.

To Blog or Not: Con

I’m still trying to come up with reasons to decide — definitively — whether to blog or not to blog. Today’s reason: the damn internet is just too fast to keep up with.

To or not to?

I did once get a good review of my punk-rock zine in Factsheet 5, so I know that I can be at least mildly entertaining…. (More appropriate to say “look f my own words” since this is a written form of self indulgence; but not quite the same ring.)So, maybe, maybe not.