Long Time No Post...and why

Hello all - I know it's been several months since I last contributed to The Bollzilla Chronicles, and feel that this would be a good time to give you all some insight as to why that's the case, and what my plans are for the future of this blog - my first one and one that has been online since 2010.

Facebook has to take a bit of the blame.   By this, I mean that I created my online profile in 2015, and found that while I can, and have, used it to promote this and my other blogs (beyondhighway99.com and bollzillaswordsonmusic.com), I found the immediacy of commenting on Facebook posts quite, uh, seductive.  I spent much more time commenting on existing news posts than creating them on my own.

Another reason/excuse/whatever you wish to call it is, I no longer have the bandwidth to maintain three blogs (none of which are monetized), and hold down a full time job, maintain a relationship, and stay true to my other responsibilities.   The bites were simply too big to chew, and I haven't realized it until recently.    So, something has to give. 

Probably the biggest reason: I've changed.   The person who wrote the blog posts years ago is not the same person whose words you are reading right now.  Don't worry - I'm still as idealistic, lefty, and intolerant of BS and nonsense as ever.   But I've come to a few realizations, a big one being that while the current holder of the Office of the President is every bit the liar, racist, misogynist, and all of the other symptoms attributed to him, he is just that - an EMBODIMENT of those symptoms, which are deeply interwoven in our nation's fabric.   He is a symptom, not the cause.   Getting rid of Trump doesn't get rid of the symptoms that put him in the White House.

And those of use who have spewed vitriol towards him and his followers for embodying those symptoms GIVE HIM AND HIS SUPPORTERS EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT.   Basically, they love him BECAUSE WE HATE HIM.   This is the product of a nation having been brainwashed by the likes of Limbaugh, Hannity, Savage, and the rest of the right-wing BS artists for going on two generations.

Thus, I'm no longer going after the man or his Administration.   I'm redirecting my energies toward the symptoms that put him in power - racism, misogyny, and the others. 

With the above in mind, I've made a few decisions about my online future:

--> The Words on Music blog will be retired, effective in the summer of 2019.   I intend to archive the posts to either of the surviving Google-hosted blogs;
--> Continued updates to bollzilla.com will occur on an ad-hoc basis, with plan to fold this blog into...
-->Beyondhighway99.com.   This has been my travel blog for a few years, and will be repurposed into a personal catch-all commentary blog, much as bollzilla.com has been.   By 2020, expect the Bollzilla name to ride off into the sunset, leaving BeyondHighway99 behind as my outlet. 

One more thing.  Stay tuned for a new travel blog coming your way in early 2019.   It's in the development stages, so I can't reveal too much as of yet - of course, look for an announcement when it's ready.