Why am I here? I've had a web site baring my name since 2000. It was the new millennium and seemed like the thing to do. What, you mean you don't have your own web site? I'm sure you have a mySpace page (or something similar). Back in the day, we didn't have mySpace. Damn, that seems like forever ago.
My friend Jeremy likes to say I'm ahead of my time, but plenty of people had personal sites before mine and I never really had a particular vision of the future.
Anyways, I started a blog on DiaryLand because I wasn't smart enough to figure out how to publish a blog to my own domain. Plus I liked the community (hadn't even heard of Blogger at that time). It was easy and it seemed likely more people would read me if I joined the service.
At any rate, it's all the same principal idea -- a place of your own to express yourself and do whatever you want, attract friends and meet cool new people.
Except sometimes they're not so cool. I once received an e-mail from a visitor to my site who basically asked what my point was. He tried to be as insulting as possible, saying:
"What is this website all about? Are you trying to be
Angelyne? Do you sing? Act? Model? None of the above it seems, so I'm not sure why you have all this narcissism..."
My reply was simple. I was all like, "your mom." Then I thought better of it and explained myself thusly:
"You seemed to have overlooked that my site is chock full of satire, poking fun of online culture, politics, life in gay Hollywood, and mainly myself. I may be an egotist, but it's all tongue-in-cheek. You hit the nail on the head with the Angelyne comment -- except that I'm aware the image I project is a joke. Instead of a billboard campaign, I write short, satirical posts, which - while farce - have a deeper meaning behind them. In real life, I’m a published writer, develop content for online destinations, and openly admit I’m an immature ass. This is my personal play space, where I get to be silly & funny [at lest that's my approach]. Hope you get it, or at least had a laugh at my expense."
The short version is the Plato quote at the header of this page: "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
Long story short (too late!), for the longest time my personal web site served as a welcome mat that linked to the DiaryLand blog and other stuff, like my pictures and crap like that.
Now, things have advanced to the point where I can do all that stuff in one place, right here! That's who I am and why I do what I do, if you cared to read this far, thanks.
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