Song With No Name

Once again I find myself unable to complete the pile of drafts waiting to be published. It then occurred to me that I could meet my post-a-month quota by writing about writing - metablogging. I've mentioned the draft backlog a few times before and thought I'd shine some light on the unseen. Perhaps explaining what some of them are about will save me having to work on them. It also prompted me to tidy up.

This post appears under the title "//metablogging". All untitled posts appear with slashes, because it takes a while to find a title for some (for obvious reasons if you know from whence they came).

Many of these posts have been edited half a dozen times because many of them haven't gotten beyond a simple thought or idea. Quite a few really are just notes, which unless they make it to three paragraphs, are unlikely to be published. "Babies Mother [...]" still has less sentences that words in its title, though I'm going to merge it with "Be Natural" (which is also as long as its title). "Extrinsic 5..." is the missing post from Cyprus, which is still here for the same reason - it was supposed to be about my trip to Famagusta. (Update 06/07/10 - now published)

Two of the drafts actually predate this blog:

• "//education" first appeared on my now-defunct second website in early 2005. I mentioned it as upcoming way back in October of that year, under the title "The SQA is Out to Get Me". (Update 25/10/08 - now published at time of last update 10/05/06)
  
• "//buffy review" was first written in 2003 for a friend's website ("GA-Master"). The first of three, it was followed by a second a few weeks later, but GA-Master was mothballed before the third was completed. When I bought the first four seasons of Buffy last year, I intended to revisit those reviews.

Going further back is "///ga-slag @ 5", the overdue final episode of my first website: The GA-Slag - the libellous, satirical, infamous website I maintained in school. The 10th anniversary of the site would be more apt, but the joke needs doing sooner than later.

"Hyperactive..." started as a little homage to Kirsten O'Brien and Otis the Aardvark, but expanded into the 90s and early 2000s, branching off into the current "Vignettes" series. Some old posts which were under 'memories' now appear under this label.

The "Vignettes" series is much in the vain of Crying All The Way To The Chip Shop. I imagine a lot of people just want to describe the stairway of everyday quiet life. There are many more 'vignettes' which I want to publish, and I'll justify that with another metapost at some point in the future when I finish drafting //it.

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