Welcome to the first entry in my new Substack. Well, I use the word “new” loosely – I know you all signed up for this a year and a half ago and are probably surprised to actually find this in your inbox, if it slipped past your Spam filter.
I used to keep a blog, “The Liam McEneaney Experience.” It became fairly popular, mostly thanks to weekly boosts from the original Gawker editorial team. I can’t think of the correct word to describe why I didn’t know that I should have run out and gotten myself a big fat juicy book deal ASAP. Was it I naïve? Uninformed? It wasn’t youthful ignorance as I’d turned the corner on 30 at that point. Knowing myself at the time, it was undoubtedly a work of self-sabatoge.
Instead, like everybody else on the Internet I let it my blog on the vine as we entered the Age of Social Media. And I entered into it wholeheartedly. After all, why wake up in the morning and spend an hour crafting a post when I could immediately broadcast my every waking unformed, unedit…
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