Well, it finally happened; I decided to blog again. I know, I know -- it took me long enough, right? Well, the reason for the six-month hiatus was simple: my old blog had finally become entirely too unmanageable. This statement might sound odd since a quick search of the archives at Cowtown & Coolage will show that for 6 of the 8 months that it was "up and running", there were fewer than 10 friggin posts. Hell, for 3 of those months there were fewer than 5! But that's just my point: the whole idea of C&C was just too broad for a broke college student with too many distractions to manage.
While it was a fun hobby, Cowtown & Coolage presented several difficulties. The blog was supposed to be about 'anything and everything that tickled my pop culture fancy', but I soon found out that my pop culture fancy is probably too easily 'tickled', and by too many subjects. And, feeling the need to spit out many entries on a daily basis, I often found that my posts consisted of nothing more than cut-and-pasted bits from my own blog subscriptions: links, videos, pictures, quotes, etc., etc., with hardly any original thought to make them my own. I felt like I was writing someone else's work over again. Last but not least, given the 1st "C" of Cowtown & Coolage's name, I decided I was somehow supposed to distinguish it as a uniquely Texan and "Fort Worthian" pop culture blog, but I still have no idea how do that outside of going to a lot more local shows/events than I have dollars.
