September 3, 2007 7:54 AM

Another metaphorical notch in the bedpost, eh??

Today marks six years that TPRS has been clogging up the tubes on da Interweb. This is notable really only for the simple fact that I can’t believe I’m still at it after this long. There was a time when I expect to be either completely ignored and marginalized or as rich and famous as Markos Moulitsas Zuniga. The truth is that I’m somewhere in the middle- still maintaining my amateur status, but with a small, heavily medicated following. Frankly, I’m just grateful that ANYONE is still paying attention after all this time. To those few of you who have yet to figure out that I’m just the remnants of a failed government mind-control experiment…well, it’s probably time to get yourselves a life, don’tchathink??

This six-year anniversary finds TPRS at something of a crossroads. Though I enjoy the process, I find myself feeling increasingly irrelevant these days. This means I find myself thinking more and more about what comes next. I have a low threshold for boredom, which means that I become easily frustrated when I begin to consider the possibility that TPRS may be just so much mental masturbation. Cogito ergo sum…or not.

Lately, I’ve found myself wondering what comes next. Where to go from here? Someone once mentioned that they want “more Jack” (whatever that may mean), and I’ve been wrestling with how to make TPRS more personal and less overtly political. I’ve never been much for public self-disclosure; I’m a very private individual who understands that the Internet is a very public forum prone to misinterpretation. The World Wide Web is rife with political weblogs of all flavors and orientation; there’s really nothing unique about TPRS in that respect. I still love doing this, and I plan to continue for some time to come. It would be nice to know that I make a difference, but I love writing, so if nothing else, TPRS gives me an opportunity to practice my art and my passion. Perhaps someday I’ll be discovered and I’ll become bigger than the list of Paris Hilton’s lovers….

TPRS has come a long ways from it’s humble beginnings as a project to teach myself HTML while I was killing time as a contract technical writer at Enron. I’ve probably put up close to 15,000 posts over the past six years on just about every imaginable subject. I write about what interests me, what intrigues me, and what angers me. I’m not particularly consistent in my editorial slant, and I don’t particularly care to be. My sandbox, my rules. Same as it ever was. One thing I will promise is that I’m going to work to keep from engaging in so much seemingly gratuitous ridicule. I’m going to endeavor to be more respectful of the feelings and sensibilities of even though undeserving of such consideration. I’m going to try to spend more time walking in the shoes of those I would skewer. This by no means should be taken as an indication that TPRS will be going soft on hypocrisy and self-righteousness. I will, however, be working to become more focused and less gratuitous in how I pick and skewer my targets.

This is where I throw it out to my readers and ask for suggestions. While I continue to attempt to puzzle through what the future holds for this dark, cobwebby corner of da Interweb, I’d really like to know what y’all think. Is there something you’d like to see more of? Less of? I really am interested in what y’all have to say, because without you this would be a very different place. Every now and then I steal an idea from one of my readers that I never would have come up with on my own. This isn’t hard to do, because most of y’all are smarter than I am, anyway.

I love being able to interact with people from around the country and around the world. Some of y’all may think I’m off my meds, and that’s OK, because I really do value the give and take. I don’t expect all y’all to agree with me, as long as you play well with others. Besides, if everyone thought like me, this would be one seriously f(&^%-up world, don’tcha think???

Please, by all means feel free to vent in the comments. If there’s something you’d like me to do, if you have suggestions, or even if you want to compare me to the Anti-Christ his own self, I’m open for business…and for suggestions. Thanks for being here all this time, and stay tuned. Who knows what the future holds for us??

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