I just thought of a pun: What do you call a show or exhibit held in France that features a lot of different things about a 19th century mystery writer? Answer: a Poe Paris...
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I notice, as my last posting mentioned, that I've been blogging very little here. The downtick pretty much began after Leftists began destroying the world with their false pandemic in 2020, but the full force of the dearth wouldn't really become noticeable until this year, and with each passing month since January it seems to be getting more marked. Last month (October) I had zero postings -- a rare occurrence even for The Daily Decaf.
I re-joined The Beatles Bible discussion forum (which, speaking of puns, they call "The Fab Forum") after many years of having quit in irritation. I actually had had two different "careers" there under two different nicknames. My golden age was as "Funny Paper", then I quit because I began to become profoundly dyspeptic about the underlying Leftism of all the other Beatles fans there. One shouldn't be surprised, of course, that fans of any pop star or music band -- let alone Hollywood celebrity or really modern artists in general in pretty much any of the Arts -- would be, demographically speaking, overwhelmingly Leftist. There might be exceptions to the rule here and there which reflect the exceedingly rare fact that the celebrity in question happens to be either not a Leftist or even a decided conservative -- thus, fans of Kid Rock, for example, or of Kanye West, or Rob Schneider, might be majority conservative. At any rate, I left in a huff and closed my "Funny Paper" account I think approximately 2015.
Then I did other stuff for a couple of years, and decided to return under a new name, "Pineapple Records" (but I quickly announced, "hey guys, this is me, Funny Paper", because I didn't want to expend the labor of having to pretend not to be myself). I continued to be irritated by their Leftism, though thankfully it didn't come up much because of the nature of the forum discussing mostly Beatles music. Another feature of the forum began to wear on my patience, however, and that was the rather rinky-dink & clunky technical limitations. So for a second time I left in a huff. I think that was about 2018, only lasting about 1 year. So anyway, I'm back there, this time as "Sea Belt". I guess my psyche, after having been worn down by so many collective assaults of the entire Mainstream of the entire Goddamned West terrorizing the planet in surreal hysterical fascist ways over their pandemic psy-op for over 2 years, has been reduced to an eye-flinching Chief Inspector Dreyfuss of The Pink Panther, and so by devastating default I have more patience.
I kind of like the idea of putting out postings on a blog that ostensibly nobody reads but that in the back of one’s mind one suspects and/or wonders, “maybe there are lurking readers…?” Not many, of course, but perhaps more than I’d think. Now, when I tweet on Twitter, many more people are potentially reading my tweets -- not every last one, probably not most, but if I tweet 20 tweets in a day, it’s likely that at least one of those tweets might garner a few dozen readers (even if most won't show it by liking it or commenting on it). This is partly due to the fact that in the 2.5 years I’ve been active there, I have accrued 506 followers. I say partly because just having a certain number of followers is no guarantee they’re reading you. They just at some point chose to follow you as a sign of support, but probably have too many other tweets to read (let alone other stuff they’re reading and doing elsewhere on social media and beyond) to bother reading you. I’ve seen accounts that have over 50,000 followers and often their tweets have a paltry 7 likes and maybe 2 comments, at best. At any rate, my point is that my Twitter activity probably has more exposure (which isn’t saying a lot) than this blog. On rare occasions (and I should do this more) I’ve tweeted something that only someone from my real life 35 years ago would know -- like how one evening in September I believe, a few of us who had been hanging out in a fellow student's room for a party decided to reconvene in the Harvard Divinity School dormitory chapel where I played my guitar for a little concert of my songs (I think I had also put the word out for days beforehand about a concert I wanted to put on for the others as a tip of the hat farewell, as I had decided to abort my studies there and fly back to Seattle), with another grad student accompanying me on trumpet. I thought to myself, “wouldn’t that be cool if one of those people who were there that night just happened to cross paths with this tweet…?” Not necessarily because they would be one of my Twitter followers. Often on Twitter, people who use it a fair amount will go down garden paths, where a tweet by someone they’re following has a comments thread that piques their interest, so they decide on the spur of the moment to do a little dumpster-dive into the comments, then they see a comment they like and decide to check that account out -- not to follow, but just out of momentary curiosity -- and in that way, that blonde grad student at the Harvard Divinity School in the 1980s named Amelia, now in her late 50s, might through mere felicitous serendipity happen upon my tweet about that night and go “Wo! That’s a blast from the past I forgot completely about…!”
An unlikely scenario, but not impossible.
