Well, here goes nothing. I've been procrastinating giving blogging a try, but friends have pressed me to start one up. I'm only about five years behind the curve.
A blog, I suppose, is a vote of confidence in the future. This blog's name takes inspiration from a psychological condition whereby the sufferer is unable to recall past events, particularly those further back in time from the point of trauma. It seems a potent metaphor for those of us living in an age of instantaneous niche communication and micro-publicity. When it becomes impossible to latch onto the 24-hour news-cycle, to recall public events or promises from six months ago, much less connect moment-to-moment in a chain of significance, then history is lost. I'd like this blog to be the equivalent of deep-breathing, a calm at the eye of the pixelated storm that makes up our culture. Look for musings on politics, culture, and personal experience to come.
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