To my surprise, I still receive the occasional comment/compliment/question about this blog. It’s gratifying and flattering to know that I had readers in the first place; after all, this is the most basic goal of most forms of blogging. So I mean it sincerely when I thank you for reading.
It should be obvious by now that I’ve moved on from this little online home Jess and I built for ourselves over two years ago. (Whoa.)
I quote Jess, from that first post: “i kind of hate the idea of blogs. they’re so self-aggrandizing and pretentious.” It’s funny and strange to read those words so many months later, when blogs have only become a more essential communication medium—a medium that Jess and I used to talk about “stuff” as superficial as television or clothes and as emotionally forthright as, well, a lot of things. But as fun as it’s been, it’s also why I stopped posting here. For various reasons, I got tired of oversharing, and the comfort I once took in having an outlet for my thoughts and feelings eventually became a discomfort with the verbal proof of my past insecurities rendered permanent at this address. I don’t regret writing as catharsis; I do, however, regret publicizing some of that writing. But only some.
Anyway, I can’t speak for Jess, though the recent paucity of posts on this blog has come from both of us. And I don’t want to delete this blog; what’s out there is out there, and since I have no desire to run for public office or hold the sort of job that would make my output here a liability, I see no reason to get rid of it. I also want to reiterate that I don’t regret starting this blog and I certainly don’t regret publishing a majority of my posts on it. When it comes right down to it, I don’t feel the need to blog my feelings anymore, though it’s certainly possible I’ll start again sometime in the future.
If you were a fan of the weird/funny shit I posted here, you can always check out my Soup, which is really just an archive of shit I’ve enjoyed on the Internet. I guess it’s kind of like the stuff I wrote for Jess & Josh, only without the self-pitying diarrheic posts that have lost any poignancy I had formerly seen in them.
So that’s it! As Garrison says: be well, do good work, and keep in touch.
February 7, 2010 at 1:24 pm |
awwww, sad day
February 16, 2010 at 12:54 am |
Josh! I’ve always enjoyed your posts on this blog, and I hope to read your writing elsewhere. I remember you were thinking of moving to San Fran and wanting to get out of NYC (I feel ya), and hope that your life is fruitful and interesting in the years to come, and that I can follow along at a distance.
You always seemed like a supercool person to hang out with.
I also want to thank you for commenting on one of my blog posts (something about z100 at the end of ’08/beginning of ’09 on my pop culture blog), since you were my first “nonfriend” to do so. Unfortunately I didn’t see that comment until months after you wrote it, so I never did respond.