BunkoSquad

Although I've been doing this site for 6 1/2 years (in Internet terms, that's since the Holy Roman Empire), I don't have it in me to be a professional blogger. I'm not a trained journalist, I don't have the motivation to track down stories, and I don't have the time to post about every damn thing that crosses my mind. But I also don't want this to be an exercise in solopsism, to the point where I'm the only person who cares if I've posted in 3 weeks or not.

There's a happy medium, and I think I'm there. Sure, I'd like to be higher than #9,686, but I'm not going to change what I do, or blogwhore up and down the East Coast to get there. I'm small enough that I probably personally know 85% of my readership, and get a little giddy when someone I don't know checks in, but I also don't have a large hungry readership with a sense of entitlement in terms of time or content (or, for that matter, frequent trolls, or the kind of mental midgets who think they're special 'cause they get the "FIRST POST!!!!" in the comments section).

The downside to having a small readership, which I know 85% of personally, is a necessary bit of self-consciousness as to what I post about and what I go on about. C'est la vie. If I were talking to a bunch of total strangers, I might do a little less self-censoring, but it wouldn't be as much fun.

What does all this mean? I don't know. I'm happy to keep doing what I'm doing, but if anyone has any suggestions, I'll take 'em. If anyone out there doesn't think they're part of that 85%, come on in and introduce yourself; I've actually met a couple people off this site who I never would have found otherwise. I write this for myself, but every time someone says they check BunkoSquad on a regular basis, it reminds me that I'm writing it for other people too. So don't be shy. I promise I'll even start writing back more frequently.