Jonbu the baker

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after coming back from japan, i’ve been thinking (intermittently) what i should do with this journal. japan was an interesting place, and writing about a foreign place was inherently interesting. now that i’m back where nothing around me really excites, i don’t know what to put here anymore. maybe i need to adapt to a different mindset for blogging.

there are many types of blogs out there that can sort of fit into a few categories. here’s just a few i’ve observed.

there are the “artsy poetic” type of journals that are filled with hard-to-read writings that sound like they have some deep meanings to them, but the person usually gets too carried away and write everything that way. too much that you (or i) begin to feel that there’s hardly anything there. some examples can be:

“people are such fragile things, yet they all put up masks to cover their wounds from the rest of the world.”

or,

“it’s always harder to let go than it is to pick up. or is it?”

(i have been guilty of those.)

there are the run-of-the-mill everyday-life blogs. you are basically reading what the writer is doing everyday (or only the parts that he wants to write about. usually that’s more than enough already). these are usually not that bad. but there’re so many different people out there and so many different lives, and they’ve all got blogs. and that really adds up to a lot of reading.

there are the ones that keeps quoting lyrics or other things available out there. (i have been guilty of this, too)

and then there are the ones i call the “suffering-soul” blogs. people seem to want the world to know how painful their lives are. heck, i wouldn’t mind making my blog something like that, but i have a feeling that these postings generally attract a negative number of audiences. zero sounds better, yes. (just kidding. i know blogs are effective rant spaces)

i’m not complaining or criticizing. i’m just looking for examples to see where i should take my own journal to.

Conclusion: There is none.

some colors are red, and some are blue (for example), and for the ones that fall in between, we call them purple. what about the ones that fall between red and purple? well they are reddish purple. and what about the ones that fall between reddish-purple and red? well then artsy jon gets a punch in the face.

the posts here on “Wabu, Kombu” have been jumping around the spectrum, and they always will be. there were many things that i avoided posting, but i will try to put a stop on that attitude now. this is my space, and nobody hardly reads anyways.

(oh ya and whats up with that new title? i will make up some explanations for it later. if not, i can change the title again.)

ok, what’s next? there’s still nothing to write about, and there were no conclusion.
anyhow i think i can excuse myself for not writing that often for the past month, now.

(that particular style of placing commas, i learned from izm.)