One of the reasons I wanted to start up this blog was to find a more permanent home for my art and writing. Twitter has been my main social media platform for the last three years (despite having had an account for the last 13) and it’s been fun, a lot of fun. Twitter’s short format and ephemeral nature. It lends itself to the kind of improvisation I enjoy. That said… the short format, the ephemeral nature. It’s resulted in a body of work—even it it’s just thoughts and ideas—that exists in fragments in a digital never-never, accessible only by scrolling through the archives of a site that is meant to be experienced in the moment.
Phooey on that.
Then, too, there’s the idea that Twitter may suddenly (finally?) implode and in its death throes take with it all those thoughts and ideas. What then? Where shall I go when I want to remember how funny I was on a particular Summer day in 2020? My sweet, sweet witticisms. I will make a home for them here on my blog.
So, to that end, I’m going to drag some things out of Twitter and post them here. When I do, I’ll tag it with #FromTwitter. And so this blog doesn’t just become one big clip show or some kind of sad, nostalgia driven “@JerroldConnors’ Greatest Hits”, I’ll be sure to throw in some extra context.
I also want to say… I’m what? Five posts into this? I’m loving it. I forgot how much I enjoyed blogging back when I did. The ownership of your intellectual property feels different. I like this a lot better. I will admit, looking for and then realizing I’m not getting any like or retweet validation was a shock at first. But now? I like how freeing this feels.