For the past, say, six or seven months I’ve been at a bit of a web crossroads. I’ve been fairly self concious about my websites, my blogging style and all that. All the little projects I throw together and then ignore, fanlistings coming to mind, and basically all the experimental little things that clog Empty Cage. I’m an ideas person and when a good one comes along I jump on top of it and have been known to find the follow through difficult.

Any ways, recently I agreed to do some contract work with my friend’s website company since we being fellow philosophers like to complain about things like real jobs when he asked if there was any of my stuff that he could see, and I realized I was a bit bashful to show him anything since it’s all pitched together in thirty minutes for shits and giggles. It’s kind of gone down hill since Europe, hee hee. And so that’s when I decided it was time to divorce these two parts of my brain.

What will the split entail? Well, MadHattery is going to be taking my blog insofar as I am not talking about updating websites or learning strange new things about Enth3. It’ll have more ‘polished’ writing than EC ever suffered. I’m using polished here in a loose sense, it is still going to be my usual tongue-in-cheek self. It’ll also look really nice and be sort of a ‘resume type thing’ Basically Hattery is taking all my eloquence.

In return EC gets all of my fun, it’ll be what it’s always been. A bunch of hack-job websites that I update sporadically but love to pieces when I do. All old blogs will stay here and I plan on keeping this place pretty frequently updated with all the strangeness that grows on my brain. I’m actually looking forward to this split.

Basically, if you’ve never read one of my updates in the “internet” category and you actually have me bookmarked for that rare yet comical interlude I’m going to urge you to change your bookmarks to MadHattery. If you’re really here to see me build a character fansite that flops a few hours later stick around, more of that to come.

So this is not goodbye or anything like that, in fact, if anything I suspect this place is going to pick up.

For example, I read the entirity of the Sailor Moon manga this weekend. (I know, fucking batty doesn’t even begin to describe it) and now, instead of doing things I should be doing. Like fixing the apalling state of the Magical Mystery Tour Fanlisting, finishing my comissions or getting Cursed up to speed. Or even just bleeding starting Dream Caravan, I am writing up the gorey details for a Sailor Mars fansite. I swear to god, all it takes is something shiny. Of course, on the bright side, I’ll have a site with actual content up, which is nice, unless I lose my momentum and it gets added to the pile of Open Office Documents that are content of websites I have yet to design. Yikes.

I can’t seem to help the fact that I want to do so much at once that when the time actually comes to do things I have no idea what to put at the top of my pile. My desk is covered in layout sketches and ideas for my websites but I never seem to have time to get them done. To be honest, I really admire Amy at Alexiel. Her entire site is well written content and beautifully designed. All her subdomains look and read amazingly and I just want to kidknap her some days. That or actually finish some of my own websites. G’ah! And I mean its crazy, because with me, the whim websites get heaps of attention and the ones I stew over for months never leave my development table.

I still also have this vision in my head of Empty Cage being more of a blog/landing page than the mess you see before you today. Maybe put my bloody Twitter (LogicLass) account to good use instead of just to amuse myself.

In short, because it’s 2AM now and I have a class at 10AM tomorrow. I need to systematically go through my entire domain and make with the awesome.

Wow, that was short.