Right now almost no one reads this blog because of the way I have it set up through another web host. I have 2 blogs to my name through WordPress and my old account is the one that lets me connect with other users. This one does not, so my only readers are people who see it posted on my Facebook or happen to stumble on it through the internet. I shared it with a few people specifically as well, like some of the agents I sent queries out to. This is obviously not the ideal setup and needs to be fixed, but I’m also having issues with Facebook algorithms, especially now that I’ve increased my friend count by about 300%. Back when I had only 350 friends, I’d get dozens of likes on my art and important posts about stuff going on, but now I don’t usually get as many unless I post them in smaller groups. Most of the stuff that goes onto my wall goes unseen now, unless it’s of extreme importance and I tag people, like I will do when I put out my book. I’ve wondered if part of the problem is that I post too much; and I know I do. I also post a lot of personal stuff and I’m open and honest in a way that often makes bad people hate me with a passion, and no doubt, with nearly 1000 friends now and the way I post on Facebook, I already have some haters. I’m thinking it’s time to change my privacy settings for what people can see as the scroll. Most won’t go out of their way to visit my blog whether they love me or hate me, but I am hoping that the people who find inspiration from my daily posts about what I’ve done, what helped me through the day, what I cooked/ate, what I’m grateful for, and all that daily shit I usually do will tune in here. I hope to put everything into one big post per day from now on, to the best of my ability. I’ll probably continue to shitpost memes a little bit for humor or inspiration, but I’m gonna aim to move the majority of what I do to my blog, in hopes of getting more of my friends and fans reading my blog rather than letting everything I write on Facebook be owned by Zuckerburg. My privacy has already been invaded in every way. I’ll never feel fully safe from the possibilities of how technology may be able to fuck me over big time after everything I’ve given them over the last 25 years. Anonymity is too late for me, but since most people are lazy, including my haters, I’d like to make it a little less easy for them to have so much access to me, in their daily scrolling at the very least.
I read a poem when I went over to The Armory the other day for the first day of my exhibit “Falling Apart, Breaking, and Putting Myself Back Together Through Art”. Please read more about that here. It’s happening at The Armory in Somerville, MA for all of May and June.
My new show at The Armory currently has 25 of my best photos from 2005-2010. I’ve been taking photos since I was a kid, but I don’t have a camera other than my phone these days. I found a bunch of random photos on Facebook, all taken this past week on different years going back about twelve years ago. Here are some of my favorites from that collection…
And here is a painting I did last year, today…
I have a video of me painting it too…
As for other stuff, it’s been a slow week for me but I’m getting through it. I decided to do another edit of my recent memoir; the one I’ve been sending out. I’m still hoping that I’ll get good news for it, but I think if it does get accepted, they’ll probably ask me to go over it at least one more time anyway. I don’t know. Of course, now that I’m editing it and fixing all this stuff to improve it, I feel like maybe I should have been more patient and done a few more edits before I sent it to every agent I could find. I’ll keep that in mind next time if it takes yet another book to get me professionally published, but I intend to get there. I’ve had terrible writing habits from longterm use of social media blogging, and switching it all over to my blog will be good writing practice and hopefully make me appear more professional overall. I also wonder if I should get a Twitter, as that is the only social media service that the agents ever ask about, and I never got into it, nor do I even know how to use it. It’s hard starting from the bottom, but I know I have a lot further to climb and that it takes more time, but I have it in me.
Here’s some music to enjoy…
Peace
