Posts here will likely be a bit more terse over the next bit of time, as I’m hitting a good spot in my current work-in-progress and my favorite author’s new novel just dropped…. Keep checking in, though! Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….
Last week a local person graciously cited me as a creative person worth following online, which was a compliment I greatly appreciated! But what really took me back was the description: https://twitter.com/MeyersMusings/status/1498029014023352322 Two decades? Really? That’s when it hit me: Last month marked twenty years of me blogging. I launched Byzantium’s Shores on BlogSpot back in February of 2002. I almost made it to twenty years of maintaining that same exact blog, but last year I went ahead and pulled the trigger on migrating to this space, because owning one’s own space online is really the way to go as corporate interests become moreDown the rabbit hole….
So, there’s a Person A, who is a writer and a blogger whose life and writings I’ve been following for a number of years now. And there’s a Person B, who for some reason hates Person A and has been waging an Internet feud against Person A for years, to the point that Person B actually runs a blog devoted to attacking Person A. It’s some really creepy shit: the posts are filled with “anonymous” comments of support for Person B, each and every one of which is almost certainly written by Person B who is posing as their own crowd of supporters.Down the rabbit hole….
Make sure to check out my Year’s End post just below this one…and then, note that after today, I’m taking a brief breather from posting in this space. Posting will resume here on January 10. I’m going to recharge the blogging batteries, read, clean my library, and…sigh…get back to work on Forgotten Stars V. I’ll still be tweeting and posting to Instagram, so check me out there! And now, really. Exeunt. I mean it. Exeunt! EXEUNT!!! Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….
It’s time for my annual look back at the year that was. I did this every year on Byzantium’s Shores, and now I do it here. Generally, 2021 wasn’t terrible for me personally, even though it was not a fantastic year for many. I try to maintain my occasional optimism, but it is hard sometimes. Time for the annual quiz! As always, many of my answers stay the same from year to year. But some don’t! Let’s see! Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year? Heh! Aside from “Read a lot, write a lot,Down the rabbit hole….
…I will write a few more posts about our Hawaiian adventure, but first I want to get all my photos from that trip organized into albums on Flickr, while the adventure is fresh on my mind. I don’t want to dig into photos in another week or two and start saying, “Now where was this? What were we doing? Huh? Wazzat?!” So, bear with me. (Plus, I don’t want this site to become All-Hawaii-All-The-Time, thus becoming the cyber-version of That Guy Who Won’t Shut Up About The Place He Went That You Didn’t.) Carry on, folks! Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….
Nothing really to say here! I’m just trying out WordPress’s mobile app, for those moments when I am away from the computer but am also just DYING to post something. Also, here’s a photo of my street, taken using the Night mode on my Galaxy S21. I liked the mood of it! LED streetlights make a lovely noir-esque pool of light, don’t they? (Tone Poem Tuesday will appear as usual, but later.) Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….
Well, here we are! As noted the other day, I’ve been thinking about permanently moving my blogging operations to this site, and retiring Byzantium’s Shores after nearly twenty years of service. As you might surmise…I’m generally the type of person who, when I get around to stating openly that “I’m thinking about doing [something]”, is just about ninety-five percent of the way to actually proceeding with the [something] in mind. Now, this is something I’ve been kicking around for quite a while–it has, honestly, never made much sense for me to have what amounted to two “Official Sites”–but the idea has beenDown the rabbit hole….
Greetings, programs! You may notice a bunch of new content here all of a sudden. This is because I am very strongly leaning toward migrating the content of Byzantium’s Shores to this space, and closing down operations over there. I think it wise to own one’s own space online, and this space is that–and it also feels wise to do some consolidating of the spaces I have, even though I’ve been using the old BlogSpot digs for almost twenty years. There’s a lot of work in figuring this all out, but I’ll get it done. I think. Anyway, things will likelyDown the rabbit hole….
It’s 2020, and that means that the Twenties are now upon us. I wrote some thoughts and collected some links to writings from the last ten years that I particularly like over on Byzantium’s Shores, and I provide the links here. Enjoy, and stay tuned for more stuff! A major goal of mine in 2020 is figuring out just how I want to use this particular space more effectively. But for now, linkage: 2010-2019: A Decade in Words Thoughts, Videos, and Photos from the Decade Ending My annual Year’s End Quiz, 2019 Edition Thanks and Happy New Year, readers! Share ThisDown the rabbit hole….