Dead Blogs

shani said...
"why did this blog die? Why did Jason's blog die? What's going on?"

Let me answer this in a fashion to match the season....Thanks.

Yes Shani. There is a Santa Blogger. Artists tend to forget one project that might seem brilliant to them at the time, and even to many seem brilliant much later. We abandon our "children" in the search for the new exciting project/idea as yet unthought. Oft leaving semi or less than complete works in our swath. While it may be frustrating to our fans, and even to us, it seems that this pattern is unavoidable to most creative types. It is like its in our DNA.

Blogs Die, chapters are unfinished, comic strips sit awaiting the gag panel on the drawing board. It is sad. Jerkemy and I have been working on a movie script for just about 2 years now. We get a pace going then we both move on to something else. Writing dick jokes or something. I have the third comic in my series complete, just haven't had the time to proof it and get the damn thing to press. It takes work you see. Time is valuable, like the blood through the organism that is our journey through this life. I don't even finish video games anymore. When I do pick them back up I start from the beginning again only to quit at roughly the same place again.

Perhaps its like the delay we try for when fucking. Just to prolong the pleasure of it. After all, who wants that to be over? Who wants anything to be over? Not Me. I have been disappointed by so many endings I didn't like. Books, Movies, Songs...Lives. Sometimes it is easer to leave something unfinished than to "kill" it.

You always hear it when an artist dies. Any given artist, be it a painter or a songwriter. He left that one work undone when he died. Sometimes a relative will step in and publish that work, or worse...FINISH IT!!! Shudder! Who are they to complete another's legacy? It was left un done because life is a circle. Yet we still crave that finality. Why? We may never understand that.

So many projects flow through me and leave me in various states of completion that I am truly amazed when any one thing gets done. Even something as simple as a blog post to me seems like a life achievement to be laminated and displayed at the Smithsonian next to The Declaration Of independence!

And So we will continue. No Shani this blog is not dead. We will continue to throw our little turds at the wall to see what sticks. You never know what little tidbit you will be remembered for, and historically it is always the one you least expect. Art is never ever finished. Only abandoned. Perhaps Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie will adopt it.

I would like to see what you could come up with in less than 15 minutes.