I'm coming off a two and a half year blogging hiatus and trying to find a voice. When I first started blogging back in 2000, most online writers were still manually editing their own HTML on a day to day basis and writing about whatever came to mind. Gradually we specialized into our individual niches, evolved APIs that allowed one site to talk to another, and some gained respect as news sources while others moved to the self-reflectivity of LiveJournal.
In this time I started blogs and let them die. Topics shifted from philosophy to cultural reviews to photography to the travails of dating. Regardless of topic, each started and ended around other significant life events, like a new job or a new relationship. I'm once again single and starting a Master's degree and now seemed like as good a time as any to get back on the horse. This time I don't want to return to introspective naval-gazing.
The goal of this site is inspired by my time in Seattle. Since moving there three years ago, the one consistent frustration I've had is with the lack of judgment: The social contract seems premised on the idea that if we refuse to judge anyone or anything else, we are allowed to escape judgment ourself. A strong opinion is a worse offense than a lack of character. A bad meal is less frowned upon than a nuanced opinion of where the chef went wrong. You learn how to accept less and become less in the process.
This is not true for every person or every situation but this blog is intended as a reaction to that trend. This site will review restaurants, movies, television, music, and books, but will also comment upon current events, trends, and very, very occasionally the events of my life, but only when relevant to the bigger picture. I may also post recipes and food photography but that may become another blog entirely.
Hopefully this blog will find a voice and find an audience. I hope you love it. Or hate it. Just don't feel indifferent.
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