I have had such a day!

See, today was one of those days where I had to get to and from my therapy appointment on my own. And once more, I took a cab there, because I am total pussy.

And the cab ride was quite pleasant. My driver was a very sweet Pakistani lady who, surprise surprise, was not afraid to ask me for directions at all.

And while usually it bugs me to have to tell a cab driver how to get where I want to go^[1], she was just so sweet that I did not mind at all.

And man, that taxi had amaaaaazing AC. It was so good that when my therapist commented on how hot it was today, I had to take his word for it, because I had traveled in marvelous coolness.

But I learned all about the heat when I took the bus home. Talk about two different worlds! The cab was quiet, peaceful, and cool, and I had the back seat all to myself. I waited less than five minutes for it to show up, and it took me door to door.

The bus, on the other hand, seemed to hate me today, because both buses did me the dirty and pulled away just as I was getting there, thus ensuring the maximum possible wait time.

To which I saw ARGH.

As a result of that, and stopping off at Denny’s for a late lunch^[2], I did not get home until 6 PM. And that is normally not a big deal, but today was the day I did the second half of the Sixty Sixty finale(don’t worry, it will be linked at the end of the entry per usual) , and trust me, doing those is a LOT of work and takes a LOT of time.

After all, I have to actually WATCH all those episodes of the Sixty Sixty in order to pick out best and/or most representative moments. That alone takes a lot of time.

Still, it was rather fun to do. It was nice to look over my work of the last month and see all the crazy
things I did, and some of the excellent opinion work I did too.

I could never pick between my “wacky” side and my “serious” side. They are two faces of the same coin. And that coin has to flip.

Anyhow. So I worked from 6 pm to 11 pm, with only a half hour break. Go me! Iron Fru. ^[3]

And I think I have a plan for what I am going to do next.

I think I will make some channels on my YouTube account and sort my work into a few broad categories, and each of those categories will get its own Tumblr, and I can start working on various different things knowing that I have a place for each of them.

I have resisted that kind of thing before because I don’t really like multiplying identities, but I just have too much creativity to be contained in any one project, idea, technique, or whatever, and by separating out various threads, I can build a fanbase for various facets of my personality (like one for comedy and one for the serious political stuff, for instance) because people will know where they can go to get the Fru product of their choice.

I have had bad luck with categorization in the best, which is why the categories on this particular blog are so simple (and even then, I only use a few of them). I always seem to end up with something that sits between categories and refuses to enter any of them.

The obvious solution is to just make a new category for said thing, but I have tried that and it leads to having a zillion categories with only one thing in them.

And yet I find it physically unpleasant to put things in the “wrong” place. Hence my dilemma.

So I will have to develop some kind of discipline regarding categories, and steel myself to occasionally putting something where it doesn’t QUITE fit, and/or learning when to make a new category and when to just deal with the existing ones.

If it works, I can have an uncorked imagination while still providing some sort of structure for the people who view or read my art.

One of the things I noticed when going over the eps for the finale was just how unpredictable the content would be. And while some people would enjoy having no idea what I would do next (including me), if I want to make my art a little more commercial, I am going to have to provide some kind of predictability.

Solutionn : want to always know when I have made something in your category of choice? Subscribe to the channel and follow the Tumblr.

I am going to make something every day. I can’t even imagine going back to just blogging after making sixty (one) videos. That sounds so god damned dull and pointless now.

So while I have no idea exactly what I will do in the future, I know that the next step is to do a little housekeeping and get things a little more organized.

I am also going to comb my hard drive for every bit of decent content I have ever made, and make sure that gets onto the Internet in one central, accessible place.

Fru Central, so to speak. I like the idea of having a family of blogs, kind of like the Gawker sites.

Oh right… and here’s the fruits of today’s labour!

Warning, I get gushy at the end.