Since I’ve transitioned to movable type, I keep thinking about moving all of my various other web-based journals into its marvelous safekeeping. My mindblurbs are the most ready example, but I have a few other pages here and there that I try and update on occasion, and movable type would just make it that much easier to do so.
But it doesn’t stop there! Oh no. I’ve had the strange compulsion to put all kinds of other journals into movable type too. Most notably, two journals that were never meant for public consumption, my jurnal journal (the one I’ve been keeping since I had access to a mac in the lab at the arts high school, in 1993), and my “books I’ve read” file. The books I’ve read has a new entry today, as I’ve just finished The Sex Sphere, by Rudy Rucker. But the whole point of that file was that I kept forgetting the plots of books I’d already read — so I started writing them down to remind me what the hell these books were all about the next time I forgot. (It works pretty well too, if I see a title of a book I think I might have read, I just do a search in the file, and if it’s there, I’ve read it sometime since 9-18-95.)
Point is, the file is full of spoilers. I don’t want people who haven’t read the book to read that shit. I mean, I usually write some kind of mini-review at the same time, so I know if the book was worth my time or not, but in general, this stuff isn’t blog material.
So why do I want to blog it? One reason is that I really want to have more than one category archive page. (Right now it’s just my poetry link on the right.) Maybe tomorrow I’ll start a book review category and post one for The Sex Sphere. Tonight I have one last holloween party to get toÂ…