New Blog Immanent
TensionPosted by W Corner Sat, July 31, 2010 10:33PMI will go as far to say that the new blog will definitely be up by tomorrow evening.
- Comments(0)http://pt.wcorner.com/#post5
I will go as far to say that the new blog will definitely be up by tomorrow evening.
New Blog on Horizon
TensionPosted by W Corner Thu, June 24, 2010 09:43PMI'm working on a new post for a new blog. Hopefully it will all be up by next week.
- Comments(0)http://pt.wcorner.com/#post4
New WCORNER website
TensionPosted by W Corner Sun, November 29, 2009 11:19PMI have just put up a new version of the wcorner.com website. Since I have now finished my MA in Philosophy & Literature, I will attempt to return my attention to this blog and finally knock out those pieces on spam bating and the psycho-geography of Tokyo (probably more for my benefit than yours).
- Comments(1)http://pt.wcorner.com/#post3
What the world really wants to know...
TensionPosted by William Corner Sat, December 20, 2008 11:13PMRight, let's get this show on the road.
I hate the dry prose, but I'll include it anyway:
The distinction between writing and typing is an important one. A written letter tends to admit mistakes with the resignation of ink, unless it's the final laboured product of an overflowing waste paper basket. The finished blog, on the other hand, can hold a secret history of countless revisions and erasures, particularly if, like me, the blogger hasn't got a blogging clue what it's about. The text develops ... gradually, advancing and retreating on the screen. Sentences recede and disappear in one place ... emerge and expand in another.
That was a big waste of time now, wasn't it?
All this animation should cease at the click of the 'post' button, but it doesn't have to. Proved myself right already by correcting a typo after posting. Whoops, and again. It's time to write that entry about Tokyo, or spam baiting.
I am a revision addict.
I used to write a blog in a notebook using pen and ink. No, I wasn't crazy. During working hours I had plenty of free time but no computer. I would type the proto-blog up later, changing things. Editing. (Insert pretentious simile). Transferring improvised music to written notation.
Many people blog in a very spontaneous way, syncing their stream of consciousness to the rhythms of their keyboard. Read those MySpace superstars abbreviating their lives for a thousand curious subscribers.
Anyway...
This is what the internet is all about; nothing to do with the above ramblings. Watch it for a while! It's funny and horrible at the same time.
I think I'll keep changing things around here.
There is nothing spontaneous about this entry. It's been on my computer for weeks undergoing the reduction and expansion processes described above. In fact, this sentence was written several days after the previous sentence and on a completely different computer.
My intention:
I will write Present Tension blogs in one sitting or I will not write them at all.
I will write Present Tension blogs in one sitting or I will not write them at all.
I will write Present Tension blogs in one sitting or I will not write them at all.
I will write Present Tension blogs in one sitting or I will not write them at all.
I will write Present Tension blogs in one sitting or I will not write them at all.
Not this one, of course....
A little history:
Back in the mid-90s I would type ideas onto the bright phosphorescence of a 14" TV screen. Pretty bad for the eyes. I created a 'blog' of sorts, spanning at least two years; a digital record of dated observations. Nobody could read this blog because I wasn't connected to the internet. This was almost certainly just as well. At the time I had devised a brittle adolescent philosophical system revolving around self-reflexive consciousness and dubious sci-fi conjecture inherited from the reverberations of my 12-year-old self (who I still idolise in some way).
I called this system Mindscape and Mindscape had its own digital diary; not a diary of my own tedious life, but a diary of ideas. This accompanied the rather more traditional notebooks filled with sketches, uneven musings and suspect poetry. While I have since ceased to engage with the quirky conventions of Mindscape (and believe me, they were quirky). I wrote another 'blog' on another disconnected computer. Mediations was a series of dated aphorisms which became more observational as time went on.
Time to write about something more interesting.
- Comments(0)http://pt.wcorner.com/#post2
Arsty Parsty
ArchivePosted by William Corner Thu, September 04, 2008 12:03AMLet's start with a bit of toilet humour eh? Toilet humour can be experienced by watching ARSTY PARSTY. There are two ARSTY PARSTY adventures to choose from:
"What's For Tea?" (1998)
"Caribbean Cornwallian" (1999)
Both adventures have been lovingly retro-mastered.
Have an eyeful.
There's nothing quite like toilet humour.
- Comments(0)http://pt.wcorner.com/#post1
