Chronicide Online

Talk about disappointing! The May 1 issue of Library Journal came across my desk today, and the cover promised content that would be right up my alley: Parallel Worlds.

Look at that cover: all fantasy and cool and surreal. I was looking forward to a good, library-related article about the trends in alternate reality fiction, recommendations of good works to build a collection of such books, and etc. I was actually, truth be told, expecting it to be this story, mentioned on Neil Gaiman’s blog recently, about “books on fantastic cities and urban magic.”

So imagine my disappointment when, finally sitting down with the magazine this evening and opening to the cover story, I find an article on Web 2.0 instead. I initially reacted with disbelief: “Obviously,” I told myself, “this isn’t the cover article, but rather just an article along the same theme as the cover.” But flipping through found nothing else (not surprising, as Library Journal usually only has one main article, with the rest of the magazine filled with book reviews)

At this point, my only consolation is to imagine that, in some other reality somewhere, an alternate me is picking up a copy of this magazine and being rewarded with the article I was expecting to find in this reality. It’s cold comfort, but hey: at least I get my parallel world.

Whew!

I’m finally free from the yoke of LiveJournal. Not that LiveJournal was bad; it was actually pretty good to me. But it wasn’t what I really wanted from a blog, so it didn’t feel very encouraging to post to it. (At least, that’s the rationalization I’m using for why I didn’t post much…)

But I’ve finally got my own domain set up, and I’ve got WordPress installed (though I’m still working on the design), so I’m hoping this will kick my butt into actually using this blog.

And what am I going to put in here? Well, I haven’t decided yet, but to keep my ambitions big, these are the type of things I imagine I might do:

• Reviews – Comics, movies, books, TV…I love them all, and I want to start crystallizing my thoughts about them (right now I find I move on too easily to the next one, so they don’t stick as well as they might), and reviews seems a good way to do that. Not sure yet what format these reviews’ll take…
• Opinions – Of course; what blog is worth its salt without lots of opinion. A bit of politics, a bit of religion, a bit of sociology…whatever pops in my mind, really.
• Random Observations – Really not any different from “Opinions”, is it?
• Short Fictions – This is…a challenge for me, as I’m not entirely comfortable creating (let alone sharing!) fiction, but I’ll try to give it a try.

That’s what I’m thinking, anyhow. Watch for categories to form as these (or other) content items start appearing.

Aaaand…that’ll probably do for now. I’ve already got an idea for a first (real) post, so you’ll see that shortly. Hope to see you back, and hope to have regular new content for you to enjoy!

Chronicide Online 2.0, really, as this is (or will be) replacing the LiveJournal blog.

It’s all good, really.