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What do I mean by that? Isn't this content, what I'm writing right now? If I put together a little post with my thoughts on something I read or watched or played — that's content I just made, right?

And sure, it can be, but I want to draw a distinction between what we think of as content and what I want this blog to be.

Simply put, I don't think content is very fun. In the same way that book-hungry kids have their enjoyment poisoned as soon as they're forced to write five-paragraph essays about King Lear, making content whittles away at the joy of writing. It subsumes the fundamental human desire to create and share and makes you forget why you started doing it in the first place.

If content is my King Lear essay, I want this blog to be reading under the covers with a flashlight so my mom doesn't catch me staying up late. For the most part, that means writing spontaneously for myself first and audience second.

If you're looking for things like a regular schedule; posts that are orderly and digestible; a clear purpose or theme to anything going on here; keep looking.

That said, you can generally expect me to talk about media of all stripes frequently, sports on occasion, and putting up my own fiction very, very rarely. Like maybe never. But just putting it here in case it does happen.

There's enough content in the world already. Let's try something else. ~