I began this blog in November of 2009.\u00a0 My adventure into public occultism began under my own legal name, and on blogspot, and it’s been a hell of a ride.\u00a0 A lot has changed since then.\u00a0 I’ve taken a pseudonym that sort-of-no-really turned itself into a magical name.\u00a0 I’ve migrated to wordpress.\u00a0 The blog has been personal and political and experimental by turns, and at its best is all three at once.<\/p>\n
When I started the blog, I was doing little enough in the rest of my life that it made sense to talk just about my magic.\u00a0 When I started pursuing a career in academics, it made sense to cordon off this portion of my life in the name of respectability, and to that end I obscured my identity and location with poetic pseudonyms.\u00a0 I was so little known, at the time, than anonymity frankly improved my credibility in the occult community.\u00a0 But things have changed since then.<\/p>\n
I have given up my dreams of professional academia – if not, perhaps, my dreams of some day, in a different cultural and economic climate, of continuing to educate myself in a formal setting – and no longer fear my private life being a professional concern.\u00a0 Even in my day job, I no longer work for squares: I now work for Kansas City’s premier New Age book store and jeweler.\u00a0 Respectability politics … well, they will always be a hobgoblin that haunt my life, but I’m now being judged by wholly different criteria.<\/p>\n
Now, by this point, you all, my highly intelligent readership, will suspect that I am going in one of two directions: I am either going to re associate this blog with my legal name, or possibly burn it to the ground.\u00a0 You are neither wholly right nor wrong<\/p>\n
I am also now doing a great deal more with my life, today, than I was seven years ago.\u00a0 I have published my first novellas and am attempting to publish my first novel.\u00a0 I have taken up art photography.\u00a0 I am now a public leadership figure in the Heartland Spiritual Alliance, stewards of the annual Heartland Pagan Festival.\u00a0 I have nothing to hide and, if I may say so myself, quite a lot to show off.<\/p>\n
My dilemma, then, is how to show off all the things I do in one place, because I am frankly not enough of a coder to create however-many interconnected “standalone” websites — one for the novels, one for the photography, one for the masks and jewelry, one for the occult, and all somehow feeding into one blog.\u00a0 (Because I’ve tried it and i know that I can’t keep up with multiple blogs.)\u00a0 More to the point, the question is how to do so with the least disruption to either myself or my readership — because I love y’all and I don’t want to lose you.<\/p>\n
Toward that end, I am actively soliciting suggestions.\u00a0 What is the best way to integrate my various projects?\u00a0 How do I migrate the blog without an epic shit-pile of off-site links (like I’ve still got knocking around, linking back to\u00a0 blogspot)?\u00a0 What is the most graceful way to integrate my online presences into\u00a0 something marginally cohesive?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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