Welcome, Fellow Ghosts
It's my blog and I'll cry if I want to ...
This site simply represents a chance to write about some of the things that have really piqued my interested or I'm super-excited about and to share them with whoever happens to stumble across it. So, if you're interested in Fantasy and SF literature, crime, noir, and SF film, or jazz, electronica, film scores and the occassional dose of rawk music, and don't mind a site that's rarely, if ever, updated, then you've come to the right place ...
Why the supernatural theme? Simple, really. Blogs maintained by nobodies like myself never get read by anyone. I mean, who are we kidding? The internet is crammed with such blogs and various other useless sites, yet there's still plenty of room for everybody. If you've ever been into a city and had that uncanny feeling of being alone in a crowd, or gone through a checkout at your local supermarket and wondered if the operator is genuinely interested in how your day is going, then you know what I mean. We become ghosts, lost in some weird liminal space between people giving a crap and not caring at all. It's the same online. Why write then? Because it still feels as if someone is watching ...
I'm not saying the internet is evil. I'd be the first to argue for its usefulness and the access it provides to information, ideas, and products that I might otherwise have remained ignorant of. It's a powerful tool, but it comes with its downsides, of course. But then so does the city, supermarkets, our homes, buses, and the annoyingly addictive Bubblebreaker game on my PDA.
Site Update 24th February
I've made a couple of additions that will no doubt launch this little site into the stratosphere of cutting-edge and wildly popular blogs:
- Ad free! That's right - I've ceased being a complete cheapskate and paid the miniscule yearly free to rid the site of all those annoying ads.
- Fiction added! In an attempt to inspire/compel myself to write a little more frequently, I've added a Fiction tab to the site in which I'll be posting flash fiction and short stories. These come with the disclaimer that everyone knows you can never properly edit your own work, and so (apart from what I can do myself) they won't have gone through any kind of external editing process.
Enjoy!
