This is my Introduction Post!
Hi everyone!
It's been a while since I blogged, but I assume the first thing to do is still to write an introduction post. Let's go!
I'm Spencer, and I'm old enough to remember the internet before social media. To remember when life online wasn't a stressful nightmare. This blog is an attempt to crawl back through the years and enjoy being on the internet again.
I'm currently living in San Francisco, California thanks to a terrible-but-rent controlled apartment with my partner and our two cats Boo and Leon. I assume they'll both feature frequently on this blog, so look forward to that.
I've worked in the Games industry for about 15 years and for better or for worse spend a large portion of my time engaging with art/media. I have a lot of thoughts about what I play/read/watch/listen to/taste/etc... I suspect they will also feature frequently on this blog.
As I write this in September 2024, my favorite not-blogging site Cohost is shutting down, and every other social media site is some shade of techno-libertarian hell that I don't particularly want to invest in, so I've decided to work on something outside of their grasp. I'm not sure what that will look like, but here are my thoughts so far:
I've always loved human recommendation. I've always said that the best recommendations come from someone talking about a piece of art that they enjoyed, not from an algorithm. I'm sure if you think back to the recommendations that moved you you'll agree. With that in mind I'd like to write something up monthly(-ish, I'm very bad at deadlines) as a digest with some art I recommend from the previous month. Without committing too much I'm thinking something along the lines of a game I think people should play, a movie people should watch, my favorite album of the month, etc.
I'd also like to post about something else once a month. Maybe it's something I'm interested in that has nothing to do with art. Maybe it's an essay. Maybe a collection of pictures or a mix I made. Could also be more recommendations. I don't know.
If you're reading this in the future, maybe I stuck to that plan. Maybe not. Oops(?) But thanks for reading this far!
I'm not sure if I'll be able to maintain a schedule so the best way to keep up is going to be to add this to your RSS reader (you are using a RSS reader, right?). Here's a direct link, but you can also click the RSS link at the top of this page.
See you on the internet!