I'll Have To Try Harder

About This Blog and Its Title

This place just appeared from nowhere. You who visited me at SashaUndercover have been directed here. The same is true of some of my other sites. My knitting and fiber blog, Practice Makes, hasn't been rolled over yet but new content will end up here. So here's a brief explanation. I will keep a link to it on the sidebar.

On March 20, 2003 I began a little blog called Sasha Undercover. Over the past nearly four years (Wow!) it received a moderate amount of traffic and some kind words like these

"a fun and bright poli-read"
Ruminate This

and this

"a damn smart chick who's on the right side
of things"
Have Fun, Go Mad

and most of all this

"HA!!!!! We're all gonna die"
. . . Anonymous

In that time blogtopia (coined by Skippy!)has gone from a neighborhoody place to one populated by multi-owner mega-blogs. I am not inclined toward a mega-blog. And I'm having trouble sticking to the purely political format I tried to maintain on SU.

This, then, is my effort to combine what has become a gaggle of single-purpose blogs. The politics stays. Indeed it is a large chunk of what interests me, so in that sense you could say that I rolled SashaUndercover over into this place. But you will also find recipes, knitting, shout-outs, and other things that interest me. This will be more like my home.

Please pull up a computer screen and stay, regardless of how you got here. You are most welcome.

One of the Problems With Blogs

is one of their strengths. They pick up links and repeat them across the spectrum of readers. This allows information to be spread near and far, to corners that only have a weekly newspaper that shows the wreck of the week on the front page. Information and even facts are really accessible.

People have come to view blogs as personal publishing devices, the modern-day equivalent of a private printing press. But the ubiquity of the blog denies the power of the printing press to any single blog.

I have a notion that original thought might be published on blogs but that any worthwhile thoughts are likely to be swallowed up in the vast swamp of mediocrity. I don't know a good way through the jungle today, but I hope that most of the vanity blogs go to myspace. It would be wonderful if somebody started a meta-blog linking to actual thoughts, but I am not optimistic.

About

On March 20, 2003 I began a little blog called Sasha Undercover. Over the past nearly four years (Wow!) it received a moderate amount of traffic and some kind words like these

"a fun and bright poli-read"
Ruminate This

and this

"a damn smart chick who's on the right side
of things"
Have Fun, Go Mad

and most of all this

"HA!!!!! We're all gonna die"
. . . Anonymous

In that time blogtopia (coined by Skippy!)has gone from a neighborhoody place to one populated by multi-owner mega-blogs. I am not inclined toward a mega-blog. And I'm having trouble sticking to the purely political format I tried to maintain on SU.

This, then, is my effort to combine what has become a gaggle of single-purpose blogs. The politics stays. Indeed it is a large chunk of what interests me, so in that sense you could say that I rolled SashaUndercover over into this place. But you will also find recipes, knitting, shout-outs, and other things that interest me. This will be more like my home.

Please pull up a computer screen and stay, regardless of how you got here. You are most welcome.