This blog has been foreclosed
Most blogs start with an introduction—a post that explains the author’s motivations for writing. If and when that author loses said motivations (for whatever reason), most simply fade into the web’s ever-expanding abyss, only to be found in random Google searches.
South of Sunnyside started as an exploration for me; I had blogged before starting here, but not consistently, and without focus. With the crash of the housing market I found myself trying to cope with the loss of value and potential community in my neighborhood, and I needed a way to process all that Kim and I were experiencing. Looking back over the last several months, the posts started to wane as I started to feel more and more like we were fighting a battle we just can’t win. I’ve since turned my attention outside of the neighborhood.
With the New Year comes new commitments: I avoided the typical weight loss pledges and resolved to trim the blogging fat. I’m consolidating my blogs and tidying up my web footprint.
Over the next few weeks, I’ll turn the lights out, and point everything to my latest endeavor, JamesCollier.me. All old links and content will be kept, they’ll just be under a new domain, archived with all of my current thoughts. I’ll do the same with jrcollier.com and a few other sites I’ve dabbled with.
All of this is really so I can focus more on my passions, especially Paprika Studios and TasteFresno (and maybe a new idea or two).
To those who have read and commented, thank you.
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James,
I think this consolidation is a GREAT idea. I’m going through this myself and find the exercise exciting and depressing at the same time.
In the end I think it’s a good thing to bring your “identity” or “brand” as it were into focus.
Nice post. Thanks for sharing.
It’s like an end of an era, actually it’s more like the end of the month but anyway. Devout reader, Kiel
Rob – thanks; it’s been brewing for a while, but it’s been hard to pull the trigger. I actually commissioned a designer last summer/fall so that I could move away from a free theme, but just keeping old posts alive doesn’t justify the work in converting the designs to a theme.
Kiel – you know there’s more to come. My goal is to create less than I put to rest, though
It should be noted that the death of southofsunnyside.com is *hopefully* not a metaphor or a prophecy of the actual south of Sunnyside.
I sure as hell hope it’s not, though I will admit that the news of McMillan’s release of their development across the street reminded me that this post had been drafted. And it reminded me how defeated I’ve felt over the last few months.
I hope not too…