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url: 'https://edequalsaweso.me/2012/08/clean-slate/'
title: A Clean Slate
author:
  name: 'eD! Thomas'
  url: 'https://edequalsaweso.me/author/edequalsawesome/'
date: '2012-08-19T10:03:04-04:00'
modified: '2012-08-19T10:03:04-04:00'
type: post
categories:
  - 'Life, Y''Know?'
published: true
---

# A Clean Slate

> While I’m very much a creature of habit, oddly enough, one of my habits is blowing things up and starting over. I love clean slates. I hate baggage. It’s easy to get complacent and fall into a routine. In my experience, that can be poison for both creativity and thoughtfulness.–[MG Siegler](http://massivegreatness.com/massive)

If you visited this site a few days ago, you would have seen an archive of my online musings going all the way back to 2005 – this was fueled by a bit of advice I received from [a friend of mine](http://www.lolasangria.com) about the wisdom of having a back catalog of crap for people to read through.[1](#fn-9458354061-1)

However, there have been things that happened that I wanted to be all, “Hey, let’s make a snarky comment about that!”, but I felt oddly confined by the style and tone of the posts that I’ve written before. Of *course* my writing style had changed – that’s to be expected as time goes on – but I felt that if I couldn’t recapture the spark of my old blogging efforts, then it would be super-jarring to the reader[2](#fn-9458354061-2) , and blah-blah-blah. Of course, all this could have been a way for my brain to tell me to not even try my hand at this nonsense again, because deep-down I’m a shallow, vain creature, and when you even *try* to put yourself out there on these cold, harsh internets, someone is going to tell you how much you suck. And as I only have a massive ego to overcompensate for my complete lack of self-esteem, the love and adoration of complete strangers is something that I look for on a regular basis.[3](#fn-9458354061-3)

So, as is my wont to do, I have removed the backlog of posts that I had on this site. And, quite frankly, it feels pretty damn good to be free of the weight from all the old[4](#fn-9458354061-4) content I had on here. I can now go on to make fun of whatever I feel like without fear that I’m not ‘good enough’.

And what, kind reader, can you expect to find here? Basically *everything*.[5](#fn-9458354061-6) If it falls under the auspices of pop culture, technology, theater, comedy, comic books, adventure, bacon, cheesesteaks, writing, or anything that isn’t ‘sports’,[6](#fn-9458354061-7) I’ll wax idiotic about it.

So welcome to eD! The Musical. Let’s party.

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- Naturally, she’s probably 100% correct in that assumption, and I would be wise to listen to her. However, ‘wise’ was never one of the adjectives that would be used to describe me. [↩](#fnref-9458354061-1)

- That’s right, I care about you. Group hug in 3, 2, 1… [↩](#fnref-9458354061-2)

- You’d think this would make me focus more on my existing relationships, but no; I’m a big fan of having both a core group of strong friendships and a large collection of acquaintances that are really nothing more than intellectual one-night-stands. I’m just super-classy like that. [↩](#fnref-9458354061-3)

- My brain tells me that I should be saying ‘better’, but it can go ahead and *shut its dirty whore mouth*, thank you very much! [↩](#fnref-9458354061-4)

- I’m a big believer of finding a focus for your writing and sticking with it, as you can tell. [↩](#fnref-9458354061-6)

- I make no promises to not talk about curling in the Winter Olympics, though, because that’s just ripe for the mocking. [↩](#fnref-9458354061-7)