Four years ago this week, I bumbled my way onto the
blogging scene with absolutely no idea of what I was doing or why except that
someone told me if I wrote something and published it on the Internet, people
might read it.
“Is there any money in it?” I asked.
“BWAHAHAHA!!” they replied.
I took that as a “no.”
“Four years from now will I have written nearly
400 posts, published a book of essays that at least a dozen people were arm-twisted
into buying, and made friends with some of the most amazing readers and writers
I’ve ever known who continue to bless me with their friendship?” I pursued.
“You’ll be lucky if you last six months.”
“Well, then.
Let’s do it!” And injaynesworld
was born.
You’d think after four years I would have tired of
the same old look of the place, but I’m a Taurus and we don’t go in much for
change. Besides, if it got all gussied
up, you might come to expect more from the actual content. I suppose a new profile picture wouldn’t be
too much to ask, but on a good day with ample makeup and perfect lighting I can
still look like that, and we all know how hard it is to get a decent photo of
ourselves. Nope. There will be no changes around here.
The rest of the world is changing too goddamn much
and too goddamn fast as it is. Just
when you find something you like – BAM!
The “new and improved” version is out to part you from your money. Be honest.
How many iPhones have you gone through?
On Union Street in San Francisco is a restaurant
called “Perry’s.” It’s been there with
the same blue-and-white checked tablecloths, serving exactly the same-tasting
Eggs Benedict, bread sticks and Ramos Fizz cocktails (with nutmeg sprinkled on
top) since I first started going there in 1970.
I can’t begin to tell you how this comforts me in an age where there is
so little you can still count on.
And so it will be here injaynesworld “… serving up
the same delights and diatribes since 2009.”
Thanks for coming by. It wouldn’t have been any fun without
you.
