Resuscitation

After a long time of online silence, here I am again. Like my fellow compatriots, I have decided that the maintenance of my blog is necessary for my continued mental well-being. The process of blog-death is a vicious cycle, at least where I’m concerned. The process is simple and no doubt well-known to those of you who blog. When blogs are not updated, readership drops. As readership drops, the impulse to blog becomes weaker. Rinse and repeat, until the critical threshold is passed and the author decides that the blog is unsalvageable. No one likes lecturing to an absent audience, or relating a story to an empty hallway. Or, at least, I don’t. Then again, the paradox of writing is that the Muse is often unpredictable. Ideas for entries emerge in the most inconvenient of times. And when one finally finds the time to write, that fragment, that essence of an idea becomes ludicrous, forgotten, tired, spent.

The second, perhaps more mundane reason, is that I am obliged to open a new post after every blog-absence with some tired rant about blogography and lame excuses of an ever-absent muse. Well, let this be my last such entry. Henceforth let it be known that I will make no excuses for lack of updates. But hopefully, I will be fortified enough that updates will follow.

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After three years, I have finally watched Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell. First introduced by Shivana, I delayed the watching of this seminal film for various and sundry reasons. Well, I have watched this firer of the imaginations of cyberpunk movie-makers. The influences are obvious, the artistry sound, the plot and messages streamlined and focused to a degree rarely seen in animation. Pretty good.

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