what’s coming
After countless stretches of thinking time on planes, trains and automobiles over the past month, I’ve finally articulated to myself what I want this site to be about, the various kinds of content I’m hoping to wedge onto this small space of screen real estate. As a result, the structure of the site will be (yet again) evolving slightly over the next few months; in advance, however, I wanted to give whoever the hell you people reading along are a quick heads up on where things are heading.
First, despite the recent spate of increasingly lengthy posts, I’ll be refocusing on short writing covering the various and sundry stupid things I muse about during the gaps in my day: The connection between Skinner Boxes and dating. Violating subway etiquette. Chapstick.
Next, I’ll also be fleshing out further some of my longer ideas into essays of varying lengths – from weightier pieces I’ve been mentally outlining (“God at the Edge of Science: Do Limit Questions Imply a Higher Power?” and “The Napsterization of Film: Shifting Movie Businesses into the Digital Age”) to fun but too extended to be webloggy content (further installments of The Great Pickup Line Experiment, more friends and family interviews [e.g.]).
I’ll also be expanding out the Salmagundi section – still pointing people towards the things I find interesting in my constant stumbling through the web, but with a bit of space for me to toss in a sentence or two about each.
And, of course, keeping true to the site’s name, the vanity content (my bio, trumpet performance schedule, etc.) will be sticking around.
I’m still puzzling through the best way to make all of that fit on one page, as well as how to balance what little writing time I have between them. But, at least in my current fantasy, that’s where the site’s going. Argue now, before I become increasingly wed to the ideas, or forever hold your peace.