I am going to throw some ideas out there, I just want to write them down and see what sticks. As readers, I really need your hep. Please comment.  These are subjects I already write about, but I want to give this site some direction. Or maybe these are other sites altogether.  This is in some ways about branding myself as a writer. What I am looking for a way to write about something other than myself . I want to create something greater than me.  

I have already eliminated any kind of nerdy site, while those things interest me greatly. There are much more committed fans of comics, video games, RPGs, gadgets and tall things media out there that are doing fine work.  I am not interested in competing in that field. 

I am also open to doing some sort of group blogging, a collective if you will like Boing Boing. So if you are reading this, and you are also writing, lets talk and make some magic. 

Spaceman: Urban Philosopher. The quest for the Philosopher’s Stone.  Giving a modern philisophical bent towards the blog, writing about the courses I’ve taken, the books I read, the magic and alchemy I practice.  This is a aspect of myself that is very important and that I am passionate about, but that I somewhat pass over when I write now.  Everything from Crowley to Landmark, from Harry Potter to Tim Leary, from Sex Magick to Echart Tolle and Oprah. I always wanted to call myself a philosopher.  

The Crasher’s Guide.  I am really seeing that we are on the cusp of some serious and challenging time. I shudder to say that we are in the midst of a total economic crash. I fear that there is no way out. This blog would be about the ways to deal with the hard times. Money saving ideas, gardening tips, basic survival, and how to have fun at the end of the world.  My thought is that whatever is going to happen with the economy is what is going to happen. The trick will be to stay afloat, stay light, bob, weave, have fun.  But, I don’t want to be a doom prophesier.  Ultimately, I want to foster the coming of a new kind of economy, one that works for everyone. 

The New Networker I know a lot of people. I like to think of myself as a natural networker of people. I have been looking at ways to help everyone in these times. So many of my friends have amazing skills, companies, things for sale, etc. I am thinking a site kind of like Craig’s List, only on a smaller scale, specific to my community here in LA. Film people, event people, performers, entrepreneurs, programmers, teachers, builders, photographers, writers, artists, coordinators…and on and on!  I want to bring all of us together to support each other. A micro social network. Again, I want to create a new kind of economic way. 

 The View From Space Already, I have named my blog this. This would be a fictional account, inspired by reality, of the world from a point of view of a dimensional traveller trapped her on our earth. It would be a view of the planet and our culture from the point of view of Spaceman, who is an outsider.  I know this could be really fun. Though, there wouldn’t be much of this “ten things I love about my life” stuff. Instead it would be more of a “why can’t you people see how messed up your world is, and here’s what you can do to fix it.”  Spaceman is an aspect of my self, my muse if you will, my genius, my daemon. It might be very very valuable to channel him.

Mini Sagas  Mini sagas only. This is the least likely. I love the mini sagas, and I intend to continue them for the year, But I want to distinguish them from these ideas. No matter what, they will probably end up somewhere else.  It is a great exercise in creativity and I look forward to collecting them.  

So those are the ideas I have now. All of them, except the networker site are also possible ways to release a book as small chunks to be collected later. Please give me some input, friends.

So,  a few months ago, I decided to move my blogging into a more public forum.  Tribe.net was a safe haven for my ideas, but their inherent slowness and unreliability had me seek other things. But to get my blog out to the most friends, I had to use Facebook, which is tied to my real name. Now this is a problem if in your head, you are this underground freedom fighter. Because the evil forces of evilness are always going to want to link back to you and your loved ones. I read Spiderman, you gotta have a secret identity.

And then there is the possibility of really making a difference.  That is going to come from transparency and acceptance of who you are. That kind of power is going to come from taking full responsibility, radical accountability for your actions and your words.  There is standing for something.  I’m not saying that this is the most important blog on the internets or something. I’m just saying that it’s me.

We are living at the end of the industrial age. The internet has given us a voice. It is millions of voices, talking right back to mainstream media. In the last age, communication was a top down, lord to serf kind of relationship.  TV, News, Magazines, Books… they all came to us and we did nothing but listen. It had been that way for as long as these technologies have existed. Media has always been the world of elites. It has also been the most effective way for agents of change and intelligence to get their word to the masses, at various rare points in history. The Internet made it possible for all. Anyone with a internet cafe can now change the world. Now, they joystick and the keyboard have given us a way to have a conversation back. Blogs and videogames, they are our access to taking control of the stories.

But, we must tell the stories to make the networked system work.  By decentralizing the communication sources, by making every man woman and child becomes an editor, newscaster, videographer,  humorist, eroticist, priest, magician, political pundit, distributor… and we become the voice. Honestly, if you have even thought about it, you MUST start putting your stuff on the web. get a wordpress.com blog. Open a facebook account, and link it to your videos on youtube. Twitter your whereabouts.  Post photos of yourself from your phone.  Find me and network yourself to me!

We cannot stop them from watching. The Genie is out of the bottle on surveillance. They can watch and read everything. They can link whatever we write to almost any email or IP address. But by the same token, we can’t stop them from masturbating while watching us either. As we flood the system with chaff, we become more invisible. In an age of reality TV, the only thing more cameras is going to achieve is to make me think I am even more a rockstar than I already know I am.

Networks communicate from every node. The radical thing I am suggesting is to tell everything. Be wholly yourself without reservation. Of course, that is easy for me, I work in Hollywood, and don’t have to answer to corporate masters. But ultimately, your corporate masters or the various tentacles of the American Law Enforcement Community will be able to find anything about you anyway. Wait until the tagging facial recognition software comes out for the public. Be smart out there, but express yourself fully and don’t hold back.

The system is in a state of upheaval right now, and everything is changing. It’s painful for the system too. Change is coming, and we are on the fast first wave.  Be free.

edit: this just in: naked pics of yourself can be trouble.