If you read this, leave a comment so that I feel better about myself and what i've just written, becuase you know, it's important to me. Kinda.

I don't know that I want to use blogger anymore. I prefer Tumblr. I find the user interface of blogger ridged and un-responsive and its lack of media capabilities is annoying too.

I only really keep it because it's like a time capsule of my life, I tend to only post seriously here, like I did last night. Tumblr is more of a flash, it's users post multiple times a day, and at times it's hard to keep up with the content of the people that you choose to follow. For example, just check out my tumblr HeyMikeWaskom. It's full of media, and random blurbs about such. I like that aspect.

A drawback to blogger is that I don't feel that people really read my posts here(due to lack of comments), that they realize that the content is always serious and soul searching, or at the least very honest and readers tend to skip over such content. We don't want to get too involved in the emotional development of those around us, because then it would force us to examine our own selves.

Of course there's the problem of wanting what basically equates to an emotional handjob when it comes to blogs. I want you to read my posts and to comment about how tragic I am and how you too, someone just like me identifies with my problems and how, eventually everything will be alright.

When in reality things don't work themselves out, rather bigger problems occur and the previous problems fade into the background of our consciousness and further become a hindrance to our emotional, spiritual and social development.

And that's where I am now. So, leave a comment with what YOU think about all this because I don't want the comments that are like, "ur so sad, i like u".

What i really want with these posts(what I hope I've been doing all along) is leaving the questions and queries open ended for discussion. I want you to discuss in the comments, I want to spark conversation(that of course centers around me).

It could just be the weather.

I've got to say that i have felt great for the past few weeks. I've been sober almost 6 months, which is ironic concerning bicycling because once upon a time i sold my Jeep to buy a bicycle in order to get sober, and it worked for a time, and now i think it's going to keep working.

I'm feeling completely unencumbered from everything. I feel completely free, from everything and i don't think i could do this or feel this way without bicycling.

I've been thinking about a statement a lot lately,

"The traditional critique of mass society suggests that most people are members of the herd, cogs in the machine, victims of mindless conformity. they lead vacuous, hollowed-out lives ruled by shallow, materialistic values. they are manipulated to serve the functional requirements of the system, and so will never experience true creativity, freedom or even complete sexual fulfillment."

And i'm going to go ahead and say that although i feel it's impossible to break free of mass society, and i believe that it would be ill-advised to do so, i think that i'm far enough away from most conformist thought processes(or lack thereof) to live a happy life, without want of things that i do not need.


One may question why i keep a livejournal and now i have a blog. Well, it's simple, i want to keep my livejournal for my friends and very personal stuff, and i will maintain this blog for more philosophical topics and things relating to life and of course bicycles.

What's funny is that at times i get the feeling that if one could just compose the perfect rss feed and the most diverse bookmarks and create the most mood specific playlist you could be complete. which isn't true, but it feels, at times nice to have these things.

Oh, and i will attempt to keep these entries as extrinsic as possible, otherwise why would i have two journals?

One final note, everyone should go and get the new Zookeeper album "Becoming All Things". for fans of The Gloria Record, and Mineral. Chris Simpson has done it again.

Stream the album here. http://spinner.aol.com/artists/new-releases-full-cds?defaultTab=7