A Blogging Milestone

Guess what stinkers? I've already written more blog posts this year than I did in 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, or 2020, respectively. Interestingly, my last BIG blogging year was 2018. I blogged almost every day that year. I was diligent, and life felt big and endless in a way that is long gone for me now.

Me in Paris, June 2024.

I wrote 337 posts. It was my greatest passion. Then, in 2019, I dropped down to just 28 posts across the whole year. The great blog that had been my constant task, my own clutching child desperate for more delicious words and pictures, had reached the tender age of seven, and was relegated to somewhere further back in my mind. I still loved her, but I had my mind on other things.

Blossom, 8th April 2024.

I don't know, totally, what gave me the sudden urgent need to blog daily again this year. I know that seeing other people's growing nostalgia for even 2010s web stuff is a factor, but I also think that the transition into writing videos full-time over the past year and a half has been a huge catalyst. I discovered that I love writing long things, that I can often do it more-or-less in a stream of consciousness, and that I can put together a coherent script that is an hour long or more. That's a revelation.

I've also just become insatiable about it. I write the videos as much as I can, I write a diary entry every day, I've taken to writing reviews of most of the media I drink up (I have to blame Letterboxd for this - I can't leave a one line review there anymore), and after all of that, I still need to write gorgeous blog posts for my lovely blog.

At the Oi Ocha museum in Tokyo with Miili, 7th March 2025.

It's kind of an opportunity to decompress - sometimes, at least. This blog is more diaristic than many other avenues for writing, and it's also just, like, whatever. I don't have to think too hard about what I'm gonna say here, unless it's a more involved sort of post. There's an incredible freedom in the great big blank page.

I have to be honest though, I wish Blogger had a dark mode. My eyes literally hurt right now. I'm typing this at ten to midnight. I'm staring at a big white screen. It's not wise.

Anyway, the blog demands more posts. I will provide.

A good picture of me, 25th February 2024.