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I’m working towards moving this blog over to my Tumblr, but I’m pretty clueless on handling those kinds of things so it could be a bit to figure out how to break this site down and move it over there.

I’m doing it mostly because I’ve become too busy/preoccupied/more scatterbrained than usual and have too much going on to write daily content for this site.  With grad school, and gearing up work on my thesis, internships and “side projects” it is tough to keep this site updated.  So, in the name of more content, I’ll be moving this over to Tumblr because I post some kind of content there, but most of it is just notes and sketches of various things. I like Tumblr because its quicker and easier to update, and it suits my needs at this stage in my life.

Speaking of stages, this week I’m celebrating my five-year anniversary living in New York City, and also my one year anniversary with my wonderful girlfriend.  Things have been pretty great for me this year, and I owe a lot of it to this person I’ve been with. So coming up, I’ll be writing up posts on Tumblr about each year I’ve been living here, through the years my blog has grown, and changed platforms.  It start out at Blogspot, moved to Livejournal, settled here for a while, and is now mostly at Tumblr.  So I feel like writing up the retrospective on this newest platform goes along with my indecisiveness.

But: sorry, sorry, sorry for ignoring this blog, but its because things are going well–and that’s not to say that things were bad and that’s why I resorted to blogging–but things are going so well, that I don’t have much time to blog anymore.  So, sorry, but yeah: good things.

Warren Ellis wrote:

I have a Tumblr, as previously mentioned. I use it as a notebook. Eventually (when my hosting company upgrades its SQL), my jottings in that online notebook will be ported here as a daily digest. And they are jottings, I’m not taking care to do anything like form sentences or follow grammar for the most part. I have the Tumblweed app open in my menu bar and I can just pop it and quickly jot something in as an idea passes through the void that is the front of my brain.

I’ve been getting more and more busy with grad school wrapping up for the semester, so I haven’t really had as much time to blog here like I used to. Which is why I’ve been using my Tumblr even more.  I started out using it in a similar manner to what Warren described above about a year and a half ago.  Which is essentially as a scrapbook full of various notes, photos, and music tracks I liked and stories for research or of interest pieces.

With that said, I’ll probably be using Tumblr mostly and using this as a news site, as my New Things start gearing up.  Unfortunately, what all of this means is that there will most certainly be less blogging going on here, and mostly small tidbits over there. The good news is that my New Things are so cool they keep me super-busy, so I just don’t have time to compose posts here.  Fortunately, soon enough, I’ll be able to announce those Cool New Things here, but until then all that will be going on is my random blathering here.

At some point, I’ll figure out a way to integrate my Tumblr blog with this site for your convenience.

My tumblr-blog, is mostly a collection of things I like. Those things being bits of news, photos, trailers and music. For those not on Tumblr, this weekly feature here at my main blog, will mostly just recap some of the things I post there.

• MUSIC: I listened to a lot of Beck’s Information album, and Badly Drawn Boy.
• PHOTOS: I posted pictures from yesterday’s walk in the Lower East Side.  We walked all around the Lower East Side, to the Five Points (which was gloriously unimpressive), and had beers at Spitzer’s on Ludlow and Rivington. I think I want my pre-30 birthday party there.
• BLOG-SHIT: There’s this sweet David Foster Wallace tumble-log, which mostly has quotes, videos and interviews and hard to find pieces from the writer.  Check out this sweet video from 2005.
• QUOTES: I posted a ton of stuff from J.J. Abrams’s issue of Wired, including his piece and Paul Pope’s excellent six page comic.
• LINK: Though my new favorite thing is Choire Sicha’s and Alex Balk’s new blog, The Awl.  Which is essentially just like Gawker but simpler, and not too flashy. I started reading Gawker around the time that Balk, Choire and Emily Gould were on it, so its good to see them doing a similar thing here.  I’d rather get my Gawker-ish news from them than on Gawker.

Oh, also its Wolverine movie week. So, yeah, go see that.

My tumblr-blog, is mostly a collection of things I like. Those things being bits of news, photos, trailers and music. For those not on Tumblr, this weekly feature here at my main blog, will mostly just recap some of the things I post there.

• What Late Night with Jimmy Fallon really is: as any reader knows from my initial viewing of the show, I couldn’t help but think this poster hit the nail right on the button (head?) for what that show actually is.
• MUSIC: “Getting Old is Getting Old” by Silversun Pickups.  Yeah, the new record is pretty awesome.
• TRAILER: Steven Soderbergh’s new movie, “The Girlfriend Experience”.  This is the top of my list of non-event movies I must see, including Woody Allen’s Larry David movie, Whatever Works.
• LINK OF THE WEEK: David Simon’s THE WIRE Original Pitch and 1st Season Bible.  Seriously, for any writer, I shouldn’t have to do anything to convince you to download this.
• Kiel posted on his Tumblr this 8-bit Presidential Election RPG that is pretty sweet.
• My new favorite blog: Look At This Fucking Hipster.
• A hint of things coming up.   Maybe I’ll say what it is if there is anything to say about it later on.

Things I’m pumped to check out this week? JJ Abrams’ issue of Wired, and Ivan Brandon and Nic Klein’s first issue of Viking.