Old Is New

I'm not including a photo with this post, although I should have looked for something just to dress it up a bit, but all of a sudden, after yesterday's post, I have this urge to write stuff here on this old blog (maybe I should change the name again to This Old Blog?) while letting go of my Medium and Substack pages. No one reads anything I write anyway, so what's the difference where I write?

Just now, I went to my Soundcloud page and deleted that account. I hope I have copies of the songs on a drive somewhere. I've just been in this frame of mind lately to start reducing my internet presence. I've already begun to unsubscribe to many of the marketing emails I get—not that I actually ever wanted to receive them in the first place—since I tend to delete them without looking at them anyway. I can't believe how fucking many I get! On many, I've gone to the website of origin and deleted my account.It suckes that they still have my email to be shared and or stolen by others, but I do feel it helps. A little.

I've got a couple of pages at Facebook... one is my photography page, and another is dedicated to the essays and "Thoughts at Large" of Sydney J. Harris, possibly the person who is most responsible for my interest in writing in the first place. I've let that page go a long time without updates, but maybe if I can get myself into some kind of habit, I can maintain it because I really think more people should know about him and the way he thinks, er... thought. Thanks to Google Lens, it's easier to transcribe his writing, which is something that has been a time suck for me, so perhaps I can systematically attack his essays and not—as I have done in the past—select something that is appropriate to the events of the day, week, or month.

I think I feel a plan coming along.

Mark Zuckerberg still sucks, though.