Long Overdue

It's interesting.  I'm sure I can't entirely blame the infrequency / total despondency of my once regularly updating blog to the seductive ease of the tweet, but it's amazing how easy it is to become satisfied with the occasional shout into the void when inspiration comes 140 characters at time.

I think it's clear based on my life/work schedule that the once lofty idea I had of this blog being a bustling factory of entertainment reviews and commentary was two parts naivety and ten parts pipe dream, but I have languished long enough that the urge to write in long form, as well as meticulously craft JQuery & CSS into something that's never quite good enough, compel me to start whittling away at my former hobby.

I think I may take a different tact with my blog, and you will probably see the look & feel of the site change accordingly.  I was thinking today about the blogs I like to read, and I came up with two different categories:  Blogs I read for breadth and blogs I read for depth.  

My morning routine consists of the Pulse app for my iPad brimming from top to bottom with game, movie, and tech blogs.  This is my USA Today, my Wall Street Journal.  I've selected what I feel are the best producers of news in their respective fields and by reading several in each category, try to get a complete picture of the latest goings on in each particular field of interest.  Now I'm not saying that these aren't well produced or well written blogs, on the contrary I find them to be the best of their breed, but the reason I consume them in an app like Pulse is so I can quickly ascertain all that is important and worthy of future follow-up before my bus reaches its destination.  These are my breadth blogs.

Lets face it, Daily Monotony will never have 50 new posts a day.  Daily Monotony will never be Kotaku.  I am ok with that fact. :)

So if my morning routine apes the newspaper-reading subway jockeys of yesteryear, I guess my evening blog reading sessions would be akin to enjoying a fine glass of cognac while furtively deciphering the tomes of great philosophers.  Well, I guess if cognac equals beer.  Some might not find Penny Arcade's Jerry Holkins worthy of "great philospher" status, even in overtly facetious comparison, but I find his sometimes rambling, often insightful script mesmerizing to read.  I often think "this is how my mind sounds before it gets ruined by my fingers." (trust me, that sound a hundred times better in my head).  His candor on life and games and the overlap of two is exactly the kind of "depth" reading I enjoy, and maybe, from time to time, will attempt to recreate for your reading pleasure.

I know I will probably never attain the ease at which greats like Holkins pen thought into delectable morsels of Helvetica, but it seems like good trajectory to set.  And when I get the urge to comment on the latest game or movie in a format where proper vowel use and double spaces after periods won't doom you to that cruel, red negative number, I figure more depth and more voice will help Daily Monotony on its way to improvement.

As the slogan at my place of work goes: "Do less, better."

As the slogan in your head goes: "tl;dr"