The kick off

My plan for this blog is starting to come together. There are a few different parts to it:

• My own version of “reading/watching/listening” or RWL, which I got from LiveJournal (LJ). I modified this form to include a couple of other things (see below).

• Re-posts of pieces I published on my previous blog, which no longer exists.

• Reviews of films, books, music, and probably other stuff.

RWLKP:

My format for the RWL on LJ differed from the standard. I didn’t watch TV very often, so instead of “watching,” my W usually stood for “writing.” I watch more TV now, so I’ll specify which W I mean, in any given post. I also added “knitting” (K); and “planning” (P). Back in my LJ days I was still teaching, so I sometimes added a “T” as well. I no longer teach, so I’ll drop that. So that leaves RWLKP. To clarify: that’s a list of what I might write about in any given post with the ‘RWLKP’ tag, but I’ll never write about all five topics in one post.

Reviews:

In addition to the weekly RWLKP posts, I also plan to write and post short reviews of what I read, watch, and listen to. I was trained as a scholar of literary and cultural studies, so my default is to write analysis rather than assessment. However, for personal reasons I am going to include my opinion, even if that amounts simply to a “Caesar’s thumb” gesture.

Republishing:

As I mentioned in my inaugural post, back in September, I’m also going to republish the things I wrote for my previous blog. Right now I plan to do that once per week until they’re all up, but I may adjust that depending on what else I post that week.

That’s it for this week. Thank you so much for reading!