So What's What?

I hate posting an "update" entry. I feel like I'm wasting everyone who reads this damned thing's time. But I feel guilty for not posting more regularly and allowing myself to be so easily distracted in life. Of course, I feel remorseful whenever I make a post that doesn't meet my standards or is, like this one, an utter waste. It's a vicious circle that I can't escape! Well, that's not true. I could, you know, live up to my word and produce some quality content for my blog.

But I'm working on it! I have a professor-friend that has agreed to assign me topics to write about in order to give me some focus. I think I work better when I'm told to write something than when left alone as my own boss. This is why I'll never make it as a freelancer. I need structure. So, yeah, this professor-friend of mine is pretty damn well read, and also interested in matters of race, sex, and gender as they are portrayed in entertainment media. With his passive assistance I expect to be rolling out significant content by the end of every week. I'll try and pepper the site with little gems inbetween.

I'm still working on new game +, this sort of social, friend-based video game blog written by and for people who play video games, not gamers. I've been told making such a distinction is asinine, but I like it and god damn it I'll do what I want. I'm a little hesitant of trying to form and run another video game blog. It's not that Vanish/Doom wasn't fun while it lasted, it's just that I grow very tired of writing solely about video games very quickly these days. Hopefully new game + will be self-sufficient and only require periodical contributions from me. I just need to finish working on the banner and finally choose a freaking layout. I've been trying out wordpress templates like a valley girl at an outlet store.

There is an alternative, though, and that's to start a blog/podcast in the same vein as Ryan Scott's The Geekbox. Scott has essentially created exactly what I want to be writing for -- a website that focuses on television, film, comics, books, video games... all forms of entertainment media. Not just one. Of course, I would write from a nerdly angle 'cause, well, let's face it: I'm a nerd. I really miss podcasting. I have a few friends who would gladly jump onboard. I'm kicking around doing a video podcast, too, but I don't think my current readership warrants that. I don't mean that the few of you who read this dumb ass blog aren't worth it, just that there needs to be more of you in order for me to feel comfortable posting up videos of myself blathering on.

Post some comments or send me a tweet to let me know your thoughts, ideas, and what you'd like to see/hear.

One last thing: I want to drop some linkage to some must see/hear/read stuff that's surfaced since the whole 1UP/UGO fiasco.

There's eat-game-sleep.com, where Nick Suttner, Phillip Kollar, and other ex-1Uppers have taken refuge and are also publishing reincarnation of 1UP FM, Rebel FM, on.

The cats from 1UP Show have formed their own production team, Area 5, and have resurrected the 1UP Show as "Co-Op." It's a little rough around the edges, but it's totally worth watching and will only ever get better.