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Today is the day that I’m finally on WordPress and free from the tyrannous shackles of Blogger’s incompetence. Took me long enough. I think the first thing Bloggers learn about blogging (apart from how much money isn’t in it), is that they should have never signed up with Blogger to begin with, which is always followed by their second revelation: that switching platforms mid-blog is a sharp and terrible pain in the...
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The Federal Trade Commission has decided that bloggers blogging on their blogs need to be bloggin’ regulated, or there’ll be Hell to bloggin’ blog about, by Blog! The ever-lovin’, blue-eyed Thing FTC has apparently grown tired of the grassroots, open source mentality that drives writing on the Internet, and so took steps on Monday to bring all the free speech buzzing around on the highways and byways of the...
Read MoreI’ve thought about it a lot, and I guess I’m just not ready to leave you. Not now. Not yet. I do, however, need to reexamine my schedule and try to reorder my days to better squeeze in all the things that need squeezing, and to shuffle off the various burdens and toils that vampirically suckle at the raw and bleeding teat of my creativity. It’s not that I spend an absurd amount of effort on the blog, but it does chew up a...
Read MoreI may soon retire my blogging hat. Then again, I might not. Continuing the blog is something I wrestle with every so often, whenever the call of other projects begins demanding my time and attention. I feel dirtied, sometimes, by the self-conscious shame of the energy I waste here, stubbornly refusing to yield to sanity as I continue to devote squandered efforts on maintaining Coquetting Tarradiddles. It’s not that I don’t...
Read More“Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to those who have none.” - Jules Renard Everyone thinks they can be a writer. All it takes is a little time, a little patience, and some skill behind a keyboard, right? Wrong. I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who hasn’t, at some point, told me that they’ve had the Greatest Idea for a story. It’ll be a bestseller and everybody...
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Kristian Bland
Writer
Occasional Geek
I'm a former Webmaster turned Journalist turned Systems Administrator. I once thought I could recreate Spider-Man's web fluid, but only ended up staining the driveway of my friend's parents when some of it spilled out and went runny. Eventually, I became a caustic tech geek, which I'm pretty sure inspired the character of Dr. Gregory House, although the bastards never credited me. Later in life, I'd go on to have a horrific experience in publishing that I don't talk about, except to talk about how I don't talk about it. Later still, I became a web editor and columnist for a Hearst newspaper, where I excelled at being Me until my entire department was unceremoniously laid off. After that, I spent about six months being pretty busy not being busy. It sucked. Then, after missing the light of my radiant glory casting its warmth upon the newsroom for long enough, the paper called me up and asked me back. So I went back. And then I left again. And here we are.
