Area 151

By my count, I’ve been writing this blog for 2 years and 7 months—-first as “Personal Pasta” over on Typepad, then as “Area 151″ over on Typepad, and now at my own “net” domain-name (something I was always a little unhappy about, since I’d rather have a dot-com address). And I’ve been feeling some growing unease about it of late.

I’ve been making fun of myself for many many months about how many categories I have, about how all-over-the-place my topics are, and also about some of those categories represent elements or projects that are no longer a partof my life. I don’t really want to delete any of those categories: they were real and relevant in their time. But as I’ve written these last several weeks, I’ve felt more and more out-of-sync with this site that—if it does nothing else—represents me.

And I’ve also wondered (blame the two digital media moguls in my circle of acquaintance) if I wouldn’t have more fun with a cluster of sites, each themed in a slightly more focused way than this beast has become.

So that’s what I’m trying. As of now, there are three five (!!!) new URLS with my fingerprints on ‘em:

• The Danger of the D-Cup: The diary-stuff.
  
• Invisible Ursines: My “encounters with creativity”—both my creative pursuits (stitching, comedy, etc.), and my exposure to other (concerts, books, films, etc.)
• 21st Century Victrola: Doing the old-school Alphabetic CD Crawl in a new media way.
• Bardic Obsessions: Following Scott’s example and blogging all things Shakespeare.
• Memories of Minerva: A piecemeal resurrection of my very-first blog, sometimes footnoted with current thoughts on the me-I-was-then.

Right now there isn’t much more than empty Wordpress templates on them, so I’ll only make each link live once the first post gets published. At that point, I might also add a brief blurb detailing what each site’s anticipated focus is. And if I ever get super-galactically inspired to expand my Internet acreage, I’ll post new names and links (and maybe blurbs). Links now live, extra links added, blurbs provided for all. Wheeee!
My current intention is to leave this site up indefinitely as an archive, if for no other reason than to have the capacity to (when appropriate) link back to things I wrote between September 2004 and April 2007.

So come drop on by: the new place is just around the corner. Multiple rooms in a real grown-up abode, instead of that old studio apartment of mine. I’ll fix a cup of tea and you can hang for a while.