The End

I’m not going to write on this blog anymore. I will be starting a new, different blog at some point, because my ego can’t handle not screaming with full force from the top of my tiny little hill, but this blog ends here, now.

It’s not because I’m not updating very regularly, but that fact is a symptom of the real reasons. Sure, my increased workload has a lot to do with the infrequent posts, but there is a deeper cause. The primary reason for my dissatisfaction with this blog is that I don’t like what I’m writing anymore. I find quite a bit of it repulsive. This is not because it is amateurish – what with me being an amateur and all, it’s bound to be amateurish. There is a bucketload of other reasons, though, and here are a few of them:

1. Most of what I’ve written here, especially of late, has descended into a vortex of pretentiousness. I’m not Roger Ebert, but I write like I’m of his calibre. Even Roger Ebert doesn’t write like that. Roger Ebert has modesty.
2. This blog is messy and uncoordinated and really has nothing going for it that makes it more than a collection writing worthy of forum posts and facebook posts – when you add that to the pretentious tone of it all, there really isn’t much point in keeping it going the way it is.
3. The name sucks. The URL sucks.
4. This blog isn’t about anything. Sometimes it’s about film reviews and other times I get to shit on the Republican Party. It has a detached tone, but sometimes I decide to be all chummy. I think I’ve created something very confused that can’t decide whether it’s a livejournal or a review blog, and that detracts hugely from the quality of my writing.

When I ultimately migrate to a new blog, there are a few posts I will keep. The poetry analyses stay, and most of the TV reviews stay. But most of these posts aren’t worth keeping.

The new blog will be about fiction and storytelling. At some point I want to start another blog that’s more personal, in which I talk about philosophy, politics and religion, but this isn’t it. This will be about fiction, which I actually know something about, and it will be in the more conversational tone that I’m better at handling than some of the more verbose, look-I’m-writing-completely-in-third-person-aren’t-I-smart posts I dump on here. There’ll be a lot of reviews, but it won’t be exclusively that. The only exception to it being about fiction is that I’ll throw in some links to other sites (which I did here under the crappy name of “The Internet Is Really Cool”). Any ideas are greatly appreciated, as always, for all of you reading this are inevitably far cleverer than I am.

I also need your help with the one thing – I need a name for this blog. So far all I can think of is to call it the Hovercraft Chase, but that’s just because I really really like this quote. Not the best of titles, but you’ve got to admit that that’s an awesome quote. So, before I dig my hole even deeper, help me think of a good name for this newest venture of mine.

And for all two or three of you who’ve stuck with my blogging (Crumpled Paper, the Kumar Experience, and all the 75 million other names I’ve collected my ramblings in), thank you for putting up with this crap. Hopefully, soon, I’ll give you something worthwhile to read.