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Meanwhile

My quest of simplifying this site continues.

The short version for you new guys is: this site has seen three major periods: A Soul in Progress, Poemcraft, and finally Franklyn Monk.

In the beginning A Soul in Progress floated through the maelstrom on webbed balloons and imagined a universe into existence.

The universe unfolded as a duality between Poems and Not Poems. Not Poems broke down into 9 categories and Poems fractured into a maze of parallel taxonomies.

ASiP, driven mad at the prospect of loosing the universe, built traps and holds from spider webs and smoke, a nursery in which sparse gasses could condense.

Shortly thereafter matter started to form and collapse and the old structure could not bare the weight, so ASiP grew into the conjurer/builder known as Poemcraft.

Poemcraft built a rickety scaffolding over the web and smoke, seeking to contain the elusive nature of the poem. Eventually that too dispersed and Franklyn Monk reappeared from out of the shadows to reconcile reality with existence.

That’s where we’re at now. I have condensed the categories, and ceased using the alternative taxonomies and custom fields. I’ve removed redundancies and useless bells and whistles. I’m getting closer to having a default site, a simple space to hang my thoughts out to dry.

And it’s working. I’m now able to compose and post and move on. I’m now able to use mobile WordPress apps and be done with it, no longer weighed down with flags and fields.

I’m chagrinned about how complicated it had become, and relieved with the new simplicity.

Colony – Time Destroys Everything (2015)

New drone/dark ambient album, released under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 in January 2015 by electronic and experimental musician Colony. Continue reading Colony – Time Destroys Everything (2015)

Undrafted

I found a lot of draft posts during my latest update. I don’t know why I kept them as Drafts, or in some cases Pending. I may have been embarrassed by them, I may have thought they were incomplete. My wordpress mobile app has a tendency to create multiple drafts of posts—that may account for some of them.

I deleted a bunch: Mostly code-tests, and verified duplicates, and still had quite a few left over, and I’m tired of seeing these drafts in my posts list so I went ahead and published 13 of the suckers.

I didn’t bother correcting them, or hell even reading them. I kept the original dates so they are buried way back. If you’re a regular reader you’ll not have seen these newly undrafted posts.