Jho's Place

The History of Literally Speaking and the New Begining

Well, as some of you know I used to do something called Literally Speaking. I like to call it one of the original blogs...before blogs began. For those who don't know I used to send out a weekly newsletter of sorts that included lyrics from a song or two, a poem, and an excerpt from short a book. The idea was that I would keep up culturally by doing this because I would listen to new music, read new poems, and keep myself reading something in general. At the end I would include what I called an Editor's Note which is what blogging is today. Actually, it started off just as random storytelling that had nothing to do with my real life (and that's when Literally Speaking was called Linguistically Speaking...I really don't know when the named switched over) and then it turned into a recap of something that happened earlier in the week. As I have said many time, my storytelling is much better when, a) the event just happened and all my emotion is still in the telling, and b) when I write it down. What I ended up finding out was that no one was reading the Lyrics, Poems, or Excerpts and at the time that pissed me off because I spent some good time on such things, and also I learned that a lot of people just read to edit my Editor's Notes to see how many gramattical errors I had made for that week. So if you know me it's not a surprise that I would get pissed send out an e-mail saying I am not doing it anymore and no one really cared and blah blah blah, but then a select amount wrote back saying just how much they enjoyed it and my ego was restored and it went on. This has actually happened a couple of times. Someone out there I hope still has all my stories....it's like my journal from my college years and many of the memories I have is because I wrote it down. Anyway, so here is the offical new Literally Speaking and it even has a new name "Jho's Place" and you gotta love that. I am sure the same people will be finding all my flaws in writing and I know they will enjoy that and I know they will enjoy whatever stories I have to share too. My life has had darker turns since I was in college and things seem a bit more complicated and that may mean for subjects that are not as lighthearted as then, but I also still have that amazement about little things and random thoughts that sometimes make me half smile to myself. So, welcome and enjoy my "stream of conciousness " style of writing.

-Jho

posted by makeisweet @ 9:27 AM