Humble Beginnings of my Blogging Career
Welcome, everyone!
Since this is the start of a new year, I thought it might be a good time to revisit the humble beginnings of my web-logging career.
I experimented with a blog on Xanga in 2005. But because I was still on parole and it was technically against the rules for me to use the Internet, I never felt free to share much.
I only posted these three meager entries. And because I didn't tell anyone about my site, I never received a single comment.
I recently rediscovered my Xanga page, on which I'd used the screen name "shakeyourbuddha," and tried to change my name to Jesus Crisis - but it wouldn't let me. Alas....
Anyway, for your amusement (or lack thereof), here is everything I posted on that Xanga blog in 2005. Witness the humble beginnings of my web-logging career... LOL
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Since this is the start of a new year, I thought it might be a good time to revisit the humble beginnings of my web-logging career.
I experimented with a blog on Xanga in 2005. But because I was still on parole and it was technically against the rules for me to use the Internet, I never felt free to share much.
I only posted these three meager entries. And because I didn't tell anyone about my site, I never received a single comment.
I recently rediscovered my Xanga page, on which I'd used the screen name "shakeyourbuddha," and tried to change my name to Jesus Crisis - but it wouldn't let me. Alas....
Anyway, for your amusement (or lack thereof), here is everything I posted on that Xanga blog in 2005. Witness the humble beginnings of my web-logging career... LOL
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
 Here it is, finally...all the news that's shit to print. For a person in my situation, freedom of speech is a myth I can only pretend to believe. But as Axl Rose sang (kill me...with all the brilliant minds in our world, I choose Mr. Rose to quote first?), "Nothing lasts forever, even cold November rain." So hope indeed floats. But I'm still wearing a life preserver. |
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
"How wonderful to be so profound / When everything you are is dying underground." I never was good at resisting temptation.... Had I anything profound to say, I'd say it. Remember when I used to think every word I uttered was profound? "I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now" [Bob Dylan]. Here is the best I can muster today: If everything is dying, then whatever is to come will have a whole lotta fertilizer. But I think "living" and "dying" are relative terms. Everything is, in some way, both. Succinctly put, we merely are. |
Entry #2: I'm tempted to quote Peter Gabriel here: Saturday, September 10, 2005
What can I say today? Long time, no write.... Should be moving soon (again). When I'm settled, I'll catch you up. |
funny, i've always found mr. rose to be quotable:
of a warm safe place
Where as a child I'd hide
And pray for the thunder
And the rain
To quietly pass me by
the 2nd entry reminds me of the quote i used on chi's blog by emerson.
3rd? caught up
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Obviously, I'm still getting caught up! lol
I did change my photo on that profile at least - and I just added an ad for this blog. Interestingly, the original photo I'd used there was a charcoal drawing of Jesus Christ. A foreshadowing of things to come... (-;
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yet again, that doesn't surprise me *grins*
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"There is nothing new under the sun." - Ecclesiastes
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not to touch the earth
not to see the sun
noting left to do
but run run run
j. morrison
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Here comes the sun
and I say "It's alright."
- George Harrison
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here comes the sun king...
one of those beatles. i'm gonna guess lennon...
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Yes, it was Lennon! On the latest Beatles disc Love, which I received for Xmas in 2006, there is a very cool backwards version of "Sun King" called (appropriately enough) "Gnik Nus."
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does this mean i get another star?
and not ringo?
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LOL
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interesting read.
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Thanks, Eulalie!
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"I never was good at resisting temptation...."
...and may you never get any better at it.... Your early blogs were but a taste of the delicious items you offer us now. I think the Axl Rose line was perfect for your first quote--sensitive and defiant at the same time... a warning, that you will be heard! You establish alpha dominance with the rock&roll quotes.... May your voice never be silenced... and may we never lose your wit and your brilliance. As we move into this new year, I wish you all the best that life has to offer. And may your new Chronicles website be a smashing success, that we your readers may continue to be edified and entertained-- in this manner, to which we have become accustomed.
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Wow! Thank you very much, Dianne! I hope I can live up to your kind words. (-;
And a happy new year to you and your husband!
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James thanks you, and we wish the same back to you and your lovely wife Geri...
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We're only half a day into the new year - but so far, so good! (-;
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or
alright now, baby it's alright now.
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Paul Rodgers of Free!
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and later of bad company.
i can't deny.
til the day i die.
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He recently toured with the surviving members of Queen as well.
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was he a killer queen?
perhaps we should co-write a blog with nothing in it but song lyrics? *laughs*
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We could call it "Gunpowder Gelatine" or "Dynamite with a Lazer Beam"
...guaranteed to blow your mind!
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we might need lawyers guns and money if we become blog writing desperado's. we've been out riding fences, for so long now.
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Thanks for your blog about the Phoenix, by the way!
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just call out my name, and you know where ever i am...
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Friends rock!!
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nothing might be a better word to use in that last reply.
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One advantage this site has over MySpace is that I can fix typos in other people's comments! "Makes me wanna holler!" (-;
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praise jesus and give me an AMEN!
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Nice! Best of wishes to your blogging!
http://www.loving-awareness.org - A Journey to Wholeness
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Thank you very much, Matthew!
Namaste,
John
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