{"id":116,"date":"2010-12-15T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isplotchy.com\/blog\/?p=116"},"modified":"2013-05-04T01:30:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T01:30:46","slug":"pulse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isplotchy.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/pulse\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to write again. I don&#8217;t know if I have the momentum.<\/p>\n<p>I dearly love people I have met on Twitter, and that&#8217;s what occupies most of any &#8220;creative&#8221;-type time I spend online.  <\/p>\n<p>But all that stuff funnels straight down the garbage chute. I thought blogs were ephemeral, but Twitter is ephemeral on ephemeroids. <\/p>\n<p>And, believe it or not, I *do* get tired of desperately trying to please people, something I inevitably fall into when tweeting. Okay, I don&#8217;t get tired so much as wearied by it.  (P.S. LOVE ME.  LOVE MEEEEEEEEEE!)  I get my feelings hurt more than I care to admit.  Hm.  Okay, I just admitted it.  Okay, so now, I get my feelings hurt as much as I care to admit.  Exactly equivalent to that.<\/p>\n<p>This blog has always been nice for me.  And it&#8217;s still here, even though I rarely tend to it.  It&#8217;s a robot pet that just needs its batteries swapped when I want to play.<\/p>\n<p>Here, another metaphor.  My blog is an island.  It&#8217;s mine. You can comment on my island, but I can shoot your comment with a fucking gun.  There, I just killed your fucking comment.  How does it feel, comment-leaver?  Oh, I wouldn&#8217;t do that.  But I like having SPACE here, on the Interwebs.  I even like having a little CONTROL.<\/p>\n<p>On Twitter I&#8217;m just an account name and an avatar.  My personality does percolate through, but I&#8217;m a dot bouncing around in something larger, anonymous and potentially unfriendly.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, I *like* typing things that are longer than 140 characters.  I like the idea of wasting page real estate.<\/p>\n<p>Look!<\/p>\n<p>1<\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>3<\/p>\n<p>4<\/p>\n<p>5<\/p>\n<p>6<\/p>\n<p>7<\/p>\n<p>boggedy boggedy boggedy boggedy boggedy boggedy!<\/p>\n<p>That felt good.  So good.<\/p>\n<p>I like existing in space and time.  I like leaving a trail.  I like blogging.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing expected of me here, I know.  I could post this and never say another word.  But that&#8217;s so <span>sad<\/span>.  I want to have a pulse at this blog.<\/p>\n<p>What am I gonna write about?  I don&#8217;t know.  Maybe I&#8217;ll make up a robot sister.  Maybe I&#8217;ll write about my goddamned feelings.  But I&#8217;d like to have a pulse, to not be confused with something dead.<\/p>\n<p>beep-beep, beep-beep, beep-beep, beep-beep, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to write again. I don&#8217;t know if I have the momentum. 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