| | This is like euthanasia for this blog, a mercy killing. It has been requested of me that I write one last blog up here to provide closure. I'm on MySpace; furthermore, I am a contributing editor for tipyourwaiter.org, a highly acclaimed and influential website...or at least it will be.
It's been a good ride. I started up on Xanga back in '04, around the time of the Great Election, where the nation somehow re-elected a president who was never elected to begin with. I'm not gonna wax bitter about that, I feel the time for resentment, if there is an end to it, surely must already have passed. But I wrote about that election quite a bit, as I recall, and as the lights slowly shone again on the rest of the world I began to contemplate other matters as well.
This was my first real weblog. I've kept a personal, private journal for much longer than I have kept a blog, and the blog is a nice contrast. It forces me to sharpen my wit, polish my prose, and prepare myself for any intellectual battles I find myself in. I write with full awareness that other people will be reading this, unlike the private journal. Hence, my blogs must make more sense, be more coherent. For the most part, I feel successful in this aspect -- coherency -- as well as in other areas.
Mainly, the reason I'm leaving Xanga has little to do with Xanga itself; I am not necessarily a comments-monger, though they are nice, but I understand that other people don't appreciate being forced to create an account just to participate in one discussion, and that admittedly has been a factor in my decision to move away from Xanga.
There was also MySpace. I started a MySpace account because I knew that there were more people to be reached, and MySpace comes with the "Bulletin" feature, which almost forces people to read your announcements. I had signed up to run an AIDS Marathon, and used MySpace to fund raise (fed the need to reach as many people as possible, see). But MySpace grew on me, it was fun, and I slowly, ever so slowly began to blog there more than on Xanga, especially after the Marathon was run.
And now that I'm writing for tipyourwaiter.org, I simply have no time or energy for this Xanga blog. And so I lay it to rest with this, my final Xanga post, a self-eulogizing blurb, a brief and incomplete history. This site will remain on the net for as long as the world turns, in case anyone wants to read the archives. It's all here. I simply won't be posting anymore articles, that's all.
But I, Bil, am not going to stop writing. No. As I said, I am active on MySpace and tipyourwaiter.org. Follow me there. Let us leave this dreary world.
Farewell, Xanga, you have been good to me. I will remember you fondly.
Goodnight.
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