Archive for January, 2011
Brand New Year
Hello.
Here’s a new post for the new year.
Yeah, I’ve not been around for a bit. Been busy, and I’ve considered it a week-long holiday period in any case, as far as this place is concerned. I hope things are well with you.
On my part, I hope that your new year will be filled with adventure, strangeness, and simple wonder.
2010 was difficult and nice at the same time. I hope 2011 proves to be something of the same thing, and yet not quite.
I don’t have any resolutions per se; just some books to read, some promises to keep, and some things to do. I want to get on with setting up the website, which you might recall. I am also thinking of reviving my dead book club. The Dead Book Club is a nice name for one, by the way. Then I have a few other things to do that I can’t really talk about here, or shouldn’t. Otherwise, it’s really just a matter of keeping up with the few things that I’ve been at anyway, such as looking up old folks, I mean, old friends,and other similar long-term ‘projects’. I think I did okay in these areas for 2010, but I don’t think it’s of any use to look back in too much detail. Besides, it makes me feel older than I am, and I’m already mighty old.
Will I write this year, I wonder? Who knows. I suspect it will be more of an administrative year, where I’ll chase things, submit things, edit things, and the like. Hopefully this will be a year of some success, however minimal. So as far as work goes, I suspect I might get into shorter pieces for the year ahead. But these things are unpredictable, particular with the less-than-methodical, more-than-intuitive approach that I usually have. I do have some very young ideas, but they’re not even seedlings, so it’ll be a while before anything large begins to take shape.
Okay, I suppose that’ll do for the first post of 2011. Sure, it doesn’t look all that brilliant, but I think it’s done what it’s supposed to do: it got things started again.
Meanwhile, Joanna Newsom will be coming by for the Mosaic Festival. [via Esplanade] I might go and catch the show. Who knows. You might see me there if you do go, but that’s in two-and-a-half months and you probably won’t remembe a thing about this post by then.
d
