Gentle Readers
I wrote something recently and said to myself, “Say, this
would be worth putting onto Chicken Scratch!”
So, the fates brought me back to my blog of yore. I looked at the date of the last post and my
jaw dropped. “Thursday, March 14, 2019”,
it read.
“Has it been that long?” I thought to myself. How is that possible? I mean, I’ve been writing… all sorts of
things, really! They just have not made
their way here. “Has it really been over a year!” Yes, it has been.
“Why is that,” you ask?
Well, there are several reasons why it has been a year
since my last post. It could be that
Chicken Scratch never really found an audience.
It could be that my content stinks and the writing isn’t any good. It could be that it is never seen to be read.
It could be that we live in a
post-blogger world. I never felt that
the interaction that I had envisioned when I launched this ship back in
2005. Most of the articles I write now
are for social media, where there is an audience, where people interact, and
ideas have the possibility of being shared and discussed. Now I am, certainly, not giving social media
the anointing of being the beacon of “the truth” that we have all been waiting
for. No—its user driven, and many of its
users haven’t found Jesus or science or don’t believe facts or are just your
garden variety, confirmation biased, assholes.
Of course, there are also those who think, who are receptive to new
ideas & discussion, those who are open minded. People those who can empathize, can be kind,
can move the world towards—ever so slightly—a better place. That was always my hope with Chicken
Scratch. After reviewing the blog, I
hope that this was usually the case.
Even with the events of 2016—both personal and worldwide and the events
right up to today, March 25, 2020 (why hello there COVID-19, pandemic). Abed and Troy were right—this just may be the
Darkest Timeline.
Even though, Chicken Scratch’s author, me—Evil Chicken
has been horrible at blogging in the traditional sense, I believe there is
still a place for it in this world. A
place to throw up the occasional article, journal entry, or idea. Those aren’t illegal yet, right, ideas—ideas,
I mean?
Well, we shall see what we shall see.
It’s good to see you once again, Gentle Reader.
Let’s see what kind of trouble we can get into…
