"Ah, Shit. Here we go again..."

"I'm looking at the front door." - Main Source. But truthfully, I'm looking out my window. Probably should've just used Goodie Mob.

I’ve been writing for fun since I was a kid. I’m pretty sure one of the first things I had written was a comic book for my nonexistent comic company. I didn’t know ANY-

Wait…I’ve made this same fucking post before. I’ve gotta read my own work before I post.

Look, writing is easy (when you don’t repeat yourself) but making videos is hard. Not even as hard as it is time consuming but worst that than that, watching your not gain any traction because of an algorithm. I don’t like trying to post videos daily, I don’t live in front of the camera. I’m a great public speaker and none of that process is embarrassing to me, but being a one-person show when it comes to making videos, especially a certain type of video that I enjoy, is a pain in the ass.

While I’m a fantastic orator, pressing play on the camera and speaking coherent thoughts from the top of my head while recording is a non-starter. Trust me, I’ve tried so many times. Each video (with few exceptions) had to be scripted and every sliver of lighting, tilt of a camera, song used, volume adjusted, color corrected, transition applied, teleprompter positioned…all of it had to be done by me. And while I think I’ve gotten really good at that process, I truly wish I could just write and put my thoughts out in the world again at the speed of a post instead of editing for 8 hours and playing hopscotch with the TikTok and YouTube gods. Truth be told, I want the readers to read my work and move on to the next thing.

So, this is my attempt at getting back to that. Over the last couple of years I’ve been posting to Bluesky/Blacksky almost daily and as much as I love the community, it’s hard for me personally to put all of my thoughts into a thread when I can just add the long form version to a site of my own and reference it here.

And I’ll still be making videos. As hard as the process is, I actually do enjoy the end result and I’m proud of what I’ve done so far. But these days I find myself writing scripts and ideas down but not having the energy to go through the recording process as often. I would rather save certain topics for videos maybe once or twice a month but keep a large portion of my material here for ease of access.

I also make music too which I guess I can start finally plugging here. I don’t know why the hell I’ve never done that before but I’ve got space for it all. I’ve got so many irons in the fire but they all step from my words. So here they are for all of you who want to read them. At this point I’m rambling. Thanks for getting this far.

(Sugar and butter grits are the best.)