Everything Everywhere All at Once

And so ends the great migration of 2026: 106 pieces moved over from my Tripod homepage to here, pieces dating back to the late-'90s and the still-relatively-new advent of homepages and blogs. (I still have to double-check dates on a few of them.) The Tripod page is still up, but--what precipated all this in the first place--I can only access it about half the time. As I recently posted on Facebook, I'm amazed that it's still functioning at all (and that I was able to get some tech support, even though it didn't take).

I still have four huge corners of the page to move over: 1) a record inventory where I logged and wrote about the ~3,500 albums then in my collection; 2) almost-daily posting I did during the 2008 presidential election; 3) a countdown of my 100 favourite songs on Facebook (alongside Scott Woods); and 4) a follow-up countdown of my 50 favourite movies, also on Facebook and joined by Jeff Pike and the late Steven Rubio. I don't know how many words those four projects entailed, but likely enough for a book; they'll take some time.

Meanwhile, I'll be filling in some gaps here and there--things that were linked to on the Tripod site--and I've arranged for an upcoming Zoom interview with Scott about his varied and mysterious creative work as DJ Shoe North over the years.

To start: five different WordPress sites from the past few years, two of which were set up to promote existing books, and two which eventually led to published books themselves.

1. Interrupting My Train of Thought: Scott set this up for a collection of writing I published in 2014.

2. Managing the Decay: Again working with Scott--and sparked, I think, by what I tried with the 2008 election--we set up a blog to cover the 2012 election. Kind of a forgotten one, befitting the runaway charisma of the Romney/Ryan ticket, but, I believe, crucial in paving the way for the nightmare of 2016.

3. You Should've Heard Just What I Seen: In advance of the final Mad Men episode in 2015, Scott and I were looking for a place to speculate on what song the series would go out on. We then expanded the idea into a running blog on pop music as used in movies and TVs; eventually, I took all of my entries and put out a book of the same name.

4. Unshackled; The Dustbin of Donald Trump: set up by Scott to promote our book about the cultural and political origins of Trump. Who, as soon as he lost the 2016 election, would be little more than a bizarre footnote in the political history of America (hence the "dustbin" idea).

5. We Don't Wanna Know: a first draft of what turned out to be a book of the same name wherein I wrote about my favourite music videos.

I did contemplate moving the Tripod page to WordPress, but, you know, I'm trying to apply the rules of the stock market to blogging and taking great care to diversify.