The Island Apple

I finally overcame a bad case of Writer's Block today and finished an article that has been in the works since August. I published
The Island Apple at Hookahead.com

Dance-Tourette Euphoria

When it comes to hyper-active nervous activity I am King. Much to the often annoyance and occasionally to the amusement of those around me, I excel at simultaneously drumming and dancing to the tune of completely original, repetitive nonsensical lyrics which I make up on the fly. My mind races at warp speed in different dimensional planes simultaneously; Its like drinking several energy drinks after chasing down a couple of No Doz caffeine pills with an Espresso.

My outbursts of eccentric highly electric song & dance earned me the nickname “Tourette’s Boy” once from a female co-worker. Add to that my often obsessive and addictive personality (or so they say), my taste in music naturally gravitates to EuroDance, Techno, Trance and Techno… anything with a turbo- fast beat, lyrics that are incomprehensible or random at best and enough repetition to hypnotize a full cage of excited gibbons during peak mating season.
I rate my latest Dance-Tourette find, which I promptly downloaded on Amazon and listened to at least 20 times on the way to work a high score of (5) Glow Sticks. Bonus points for the weird accent and the bouncing boobalas in the video production. Me Likey!!!

Writers Block & the Anti-Blog

I decided to start this blog to get the creative juices rolling again. I fancy myself as someone who can write adequately however in my ever increasing quest to generate content, I find myself fatigued and metaphorically tongue-tied when trying to put words to paper. In my line of business, original content equal web traffic which in turn breathes life into the brands and websites I create. Problem is, writer’s block sets in pretty quickly when a single article involves a lengthy task list extending beyond the sometimes difficult task of writing a logically flowing, grammatically correct piece replete with graphics, photos and meta keywords for proper search engine marketing.

With writers block, the obstacle is not always creativity. My Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) riddled brain often pieces together brilliant openings and ingeniously crafted paragraphs, almost always when I am NOT in front of a word processor. Of course the moment I sit down to actually complete the task of writing the article in question, I find myself gazing at rolling tumbleweed… stuttering like an idiot-savant before wandering off into the endless reaches of cyberspace in search of inspiration.

Perhaps you think starting off a new Blog admitting to erectile-writing dysfunction is a bad omen? If so, the second part of this post is going to do nothing to ingratiate myself to the blogging community:

Until now, I have been an anti-bloggite (if you recall the famous episode where Kramer accuses Seinfeld of being an anti-dentite). Obviously, it would be difficult to continue down this path of soft bigotry given that I now actually do have a blog.

Let me clarify at this point that my distaste for the word “Blog” has little to do with the concept itself. My alienation was caused by confusion on the part of many Internet “novices” who would ask me how my political “blog” was going in reference to Capitol Grilling, a political site and discussion forum that I am co-founder of. I felt that referring to Capitol Grilling as a blog minimized the endless hours over the years it took me to design the site and build a respectable size online community. You see, a Blog by definition is generally a template site where a single writer (there are exceptions) publishes content to an audience restricted in their interaction to posting comments. My personal bias as a result relegated the blogosphere to a lesser endeavor not worthy of professional designers or writers, since I viewed Blogs as a Facebook or MySpace style exercise in self-edification; In my worldview at the time, a serious author publishing content would do so on a dedicated website with custom graphics/branding and more impersonal writing style. Of course in hindsight, my “bias” overlooked hugely successful blogs which later morphed into major professional Internet sites by virtue the large audience they developed.