A New Year, a New Pegritz.com

January 1st, 2006

Heavens to Walter Mondale! It’s already 2006! And you know what that means: it’s time for the venerable and heretofore-seldom-updated Pegritz.com to experience its own Kafka-esque metamorphosis into something completely different, and yet…strangely familiar. As the Ball fell on 2005, Pegritz.com found itself in a sober stupor contemplating its past–and its future. In the past year, this site has been sparsely updated simply because I’ve generally been too goddamned busy with teaching and/or sleeping to properly dedicated time to it. And when I did have time, it seemed as though all I really wrote about was digital rights, horror movies, or occasionally new tech. All very interesting, but…really, if you’re coming here to Pegritz.com, you’re probably doing so because you want a true virtual Pegritz experience, am I right? You want stories of my many strange encounters with possibly non-human rednecks and alien weirdos! Tales of NONFICTION! and related oldskool craziness! Rants about rampant stupidity, completely biased and one-sided discussion about new horror and sci-fi films/lit, and assorted other sketchy, silly things. Am I right?

Well, at any rate, that’s what I want to write about these days. From here on out, this site is ALL ABOUT ME and my collosal pseudorobotic ego. In the next coming days, all of the articles previously published here concerning tech developments, digital rights, and related matters will be moving over to Pegritz.com’s sister site, Oneirophrenia.net–which is currently being remade into a collection of essays concerning many aspects of digital life, technology, transhumanism, and related topics. Once this joint it cleaned out, I’m going to hang up the neon lights, the disco ball, finish wiring up the soundsystem, and break out the topshelf liquor! The neighborhood will never be the same. Chances are there will be a couple of shootings or gang fights every night, but that’s just how we roll ’round these parts.

 

By Derek C. F. Pegritz on January 1st, 2006 | Scategory: Site Admin Crap |

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    That is beautiful. You remind me of my own former beloveds. Though once our distance was the result of their unreliability, now things have changed. I turn my back on them coldly, even when they travel from afar to visit me. I just can't be seen with certain characters anymore. My colleagues just wouldn't understand, and I could lose everything if I lose my respectability in their eyes. Am I shallow to let my fear of scandal come between me and my old paramours of ill-repute? I feel guilt at my bourgiouse pretense, when beneath the sham is concealed an unrepentant boheme. Will I ever have the courage to openly flout the rules and risk the scarlet brand? Or am I really so slaved to convention that I would rather own the sin of the hypocrite than that of the wanton?

    These are the thoughts I mull in the night, which your memoire of Jose brings fresh to my mind. I am glad for you, for how you handled your parting. You may have distanced yourselves, but you ended well. Like men.

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