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Whatever that means.

I’ve had a tumblr for years but don’t like it very much and haven’t bothered using it. Don’t much care for tumblr.

Anyway, I’m using it now. You can find The Grumpy Owl tumblr here.

I have all these pics –junk really– I want off my computer but don’t want to delete. I collect these things for future use, forget where I found them and never get around to using them. Then it takes me ages to find the pictures I do want to use. I tried dumping them into this blog but, fuck, I don’t like those posts anymore than you do, it will take too long to filter them in here (they’re still breeding!) and I kinda want to keep this blog content heavy.

So Tumblr seems like a good place to upload them to. You’ll see them in the sidebar under scraps.

It’s also possible that the thing might replace the “Might Be Clues” which replaced Owl Pellets. I don’t know. These things tend to have an emergent order. I expect it’ll show up after I get rid of a lot of my junk. Anyway . . .

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Being possessed of a deeply charitable disposition, I’ve made some slight changes to improve your experience of The Grumpy Owl.

If you look up at the top, just below the header, you’ll notice that I’ve categorized my posts.    This was probably overdue.  I’ve been at this for a while and the subject matter has always been eclectic.  Yet my readers, depending on how they heard about this place, are usually interested in one type of subject.   A bit of organization was required.  It has been provided.

Secondly, there’s going to be more posts here but less quality.

Quite a few posts are simply going to be a pic that I like and a quote that I think relates to it.  These have already been scheduled four days a week into May.

Monday is for bartending; Tuesday: Baseball, Wednesday: Owls, Thursday: Style.  I’ll figure out Fridays soon enough.  Just gotta find something else that’s never really topical and always there.  I also want to avoid a bad noise to signal ratio.

I’m going to continue posting my normal content.  It’s simply going to be on top of a bedrock of regularly scheduled crap content.  I’ve been unhappy with the irregularity of my posting for some time but, as Picasso said, you can’t always be exorcising demons.  Besides this, the internet has changed since I started here.

Tumblr, twitter, short bursts of information are the way of the present.   We’ve gone from bite sized chunks of information to nibbles.  The internet is a buffet of appetizers.  You can’t live off it but it still tastes good.

I don’t mind gearing the owl to better reflect the era (I enjoy both twitter and tumblr) and the abundance of these nibbles makes it easier to create my own.

Having said that, I still love writing more than tweeting.  Some ideas are over-serviced by 140 characters and some can’t be serviced at all.  As Ebert once said: “No good movie is too long and no bad movie is too short.”  I’ll just try to provide the right amount of words for whatever subject is at hand.

These new regularly scheduled posts are the bowl of peanuts on the bar.  They’re not the booze (they’re not even the chicken wings) and they’re not meant to replace either.   They’re just something to nibble on.

Hope you enjoy them and that they’re not too stale.