I have been pressured by several people who want to know when the blog will return. I have wondered that myself. Can’t you, they ask, write the blog without talking about the people who don’t want their lives made public? No, I can’t, really, because the blog makes my life public, and they are part of my life. There’s not much I can do about that.
Well, there is, really–I can stop talking about “my life”. The point of the Blogless Lepolt, ultimately, is to let you, the Valdron/Multiverser fanbase, know what is happening with forthcoming product. It is incidentally to let what might be called the Mark Joseph Young fanbase know about my other creative work being produced outside the Valdron/Multiverser stable. In all this time, it has also been a place for talking about what has been in the way of producing such work, and thus the events and distractions of my personal life. Part of that was because I was writing this every day, and I wasn’t getting anything done every day (or sometimes even every week), so I had to say something, and I felt I had to explain why there wasn’t any time to get something done every day. One of the comments noted that this was something of value to him, to have some understanding of the conflicts that prevented me from writing so much. That, though, is the part that gets personal–and thus the part that has to go. Similarly, since I’m not going to be explaining why things have not been done, I will no longer be writing the blog daily–there will be posts when there is something to post; it won’t always be much, and it won’t always be very informative, but at least it won’t be about the progress I did not make.
It will also move that last blog post off its prominent position on the front page of this site, which will make me feel a bit better.
All of this suggests that I have something to tell–and indeed I do. As I have been typing, I have realized that there is more than one thing to tell.
The impetus for resuming is that there is a new page in the Bible Studies section of M. J. Young Net, On Sabbath. The brief story behind it is pretty much stated on the page as an introduction. For those curious as to how someone who has always “regarded all days the same” justifies being part of a Seventh Day Baptist church which very clearly “regards one day above another”, there’s some insight into that there.
As I was typing, though, it occurred to me that I did not mention having made progress on the Multiverser Triple Play: Horror. I did what I am hoping will be the last text edits (and neither Jim nor John have commented on them, so I’m feeling fairly secure in that hope). That puts the ball in the court of our art director. He, however, takes an extended visit to family overseas every summer, so he might not get to the artwork as soon as he would like.
There was a third thing that came to mind while I was typing, and that is that Collision, the band, now has its own MySpace site. There’s nothing there yet–not even a picture of the band, and no music–but it’s a start. I had been thinking it was a necessary step, but that I did not have the time to do it and we weren’t really ready for it, when Baxter asked me about it. He and Brittany have been overseeing it (I’ve not yet even had the chance to log in to the editing page–but I’m not particularly good at maintaining MySpace sites), and it’s progressing. What do you think–should our lyrics be posted there somewhere, somehow?
Anyway, that’s the situation. I will post again when I have something to tell.
–M. J. Young
