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What Readers?

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This blog really used to be something.

However, several things have happened.

(1) My life is not as exciting as it used to be. (This is not necessarily a bad thing.)

(2) I am not as neurotic as I used to be. (This is a good thing.)

(3) There are way more blogs than there used to be, so there are way more gay blogs than there used to be, so it’s harder for any one blog to stand out.

I’m sure there are other factors as well.

Anyway, I don’t have anything approaching the devoted readership that I used to have. I certainly get way fewer comments than I once did, leading me to believe that most of my posts elicit no more than a collective *shrug* from the homoblogosphere.

To be a popular gay blogger these days, it seems like you have to be a bear or hang out with bears. I’m not a bear and I don’t really hang out with bears much.

I’m not a very witty writer. The people need their wit quotient. I can’t really provide it.

I don’t stick to one topic, so there’s not really a built-in audience for my blog. This isn’t a gay rights blog or a “here are the adventures of my crazy life” blog or a theater blog or a blog about history or politics or crosswords. It’s an everything blog. (Like an everything bagel.) I write about whatever interests me at any given moment. And sometimes I’m interested in some obscure things. For instance, I just finished reading the second volume of a three-volume series written in the late 1960’s about the history of radio and television broadcasting in the United States. I think it’s fascinating stuff.

I don’t have photos of me on my site anymore. I took them down because of my job search – I didn’t want potential employers to be able to confirm that this was my site. But as I shift focus in my search, maybe it won’t matter so much if potential employers find my blog.

I really shouldn’t dwell on this, and I won’t. I’ll just continue to write about whatever the hell I want to write about. Fewer people read my words than in the past, but I guess that’s okay. Not everyone can have the popularity of JoeMyGod.