Saturday, January 21, 2006

Just mindless musings

Not too happy with my blog production or quality for the past three months. Not that it is about production...just makes me think about my life...Consider my blog a reflection of me and sometimes wonder if I would read my blog if it was written by someone else...probably not...Thinking about making some changes regarding how and when I blog...for starters....stop thinking that I have to have something significant or interesting to say. Do more free association blogging. Just whatever pops into my head at the moment. Scary thought, considering my "active imagination"....Just yesterday, for example, I was fantasizing about starting a movie website called "Redneck Reviews" with one of my colleagues from work. We would use pseudonym's of course. I am partial to Lester and Buck. Our motto would be, "we call e'm as we see em"...and...We would have video streams of the old Hee Haw show running on the site.....Don't know where I come up with these ideas most of the time. If I were to analyze myself I would suspect it probably has something to do with the fact that I spent so much time alone growing up as a child. I suppose I had to entertain myself much of the time and what better way to do so than fantasize about this or that. My family didn't read and there were few books in the house so I guess fantasy won out by default....A word or two on blogging....Enjoy blogging....probably has alot to do with the freedom and anarchist aspect of the medium. No particular ground rules or restrictions, at this point, that prevent me from saying or doing what I want. So much of life is following a script or rules and expectations of others. Not always a bad thing but sometimes a fellow just needs to spread his or her wings and say what is on the heart. Know what I mean?....Do, at times, wish I had something more to report than football scores or latest happenings...but... also don't want to turn my little corner of cyberspace into political/religious commentary. I could do that since I have significant passions regarding such subjects but the world is already too serious much of the time, imho. It's like that at work alot and somedays I just want to scream and tell everyone....chill....chill....lighten up. I know that what I do is important but sometimes I feel too many folks think the survival of western civilization has to do with what is happening at school. Here's a little insight for you all....It's not....Education is much much bigger than what happens in most of the classrooms around this country...but....I suspect most folks already know that except for the educational guru workaholics/politicians who use education for political gain....Lets wrap this up....I've gotten way off the original subject of being concerned about my blog but as I previously stated sometimes a fellow just needs to spill and if spilling is interpreted as mindless musings, than so be it........

3 comments:

Unknown said...

I like Redneck Reviews! Great concept and fun to read... though you are so not a redneck!! It would be like a bait and switch every time I read a review there and that's what might make it so much fun! Kind of follows the gay cowboy idea... a seeming contradiction in terms... but not really. :)

Enjoyed your freewrite this a.m. I like blogging too, like you, because it is so free and under my control... and just enough of an audience to remind me to do it.

I read your blog, friend. :)

Julie

David Blakeslee said...

Me too, to all that...

Bilbo said...

Julie,

Thanks for the kind words. I was just kidding about the Redneck Reviews idea. It would be kind of fun actually as an experiment but just don't have the time to get involved in another project. I can barely keep up with this blog and my few other online adventures....