Asterìskoi

Jake Lodwick, announcing his blog retirement

“I don’t have a more specific reason than “it’s time for something new”. I started using Tumblr in April 2007. Back then my blog was called “Obeastiality” and I loved the low friction between wanting to post and posting. Two point eight thousand posts later and I can say I’ve had a good run, but this open line to the world feels a little distracting from the work I want to do next. What work is that? I don’t know exactly but I think it involves being pretty isolated from other brains for a while.

I spent the last few years deciding what I would do, then doing it, often with catastrophic results. I’m an obsessive, creative person, and all these self imposed “hey guys, now I’m working on this” phases were probably the worst possible structures I could build for myself. Clearly-labeled boxes quickly feel like jail cells to me. Feeling in-control and well-marketed are not my priorities at this point.

When the next Odwick season ends, I’m going to let my right brain dominate for a while — I’m not going to say what I am or what I’m working on. I’m just going to wake up each morning and work on whatever interests me, including ‘nothing’ if that’s the order of the day. I’m confident that this is the best strategy for now, even though I won’t have a standard answer when some new person asks me ‘what I do’.

I’m not certain that this is why I’m shutting down my blog, but I think there’s a connection.”