Idea Logs

This is my first, and certainly won't be my last, self-reflexive post. In reality this post is almost certainly motivated by my need to write that horribly punny title. So you must bear with me as I decipher what, perhaps, I may mean by such a title.

No matter what we're going to have to be okay with the idea that today's idea is about ideas. I'm sorry, there is no denying that. We also must face that clearly the forum in which this post is being written is most certainly itself an idea log. Your long sneering mouth and jowls evince your distaste for my pun, but patience wolf, patience.

I don't mean simply to toot our own horn, tho' I do believe it is quite tootable. I mean, and I messenger boy won't disagree with me here, that it is precisely the point of this here forum to motivate the creation, collection and coalition of ideas in whatever format you find the most suitable to your very own keeping of them.

A good read referred to me recently--through the medium of printed materials--as an 'archivist' (or more precisely 'the archivist'). I had not previously conceived of myself as such, but found upon reflection that indeed I certainly have an interest in preservation and organization (I continue, false or no, to claim that it is on account of my faulty memory). This bit of self-knowledge could quite possibly be the missing thread that has hung me up on some long forgotten nail. It unites for me my passion for written words, specifically stories, and the sense of systems of storage and transmission (note to self: post on how novels are systems built for the transmission of complex ideas).

The idea (we find ourselves saying this a lot after paragraphs of rambling) is this idea. Write down ideas. Keep them. Paper and pen do this well as previously discussed. So do internet web logs. Keep them and look and them and laugh at yourself and your silly ideas. Or do some. No matter what you will have a record. And it won't just be a record that is a history, it will be a record of highlights, bright points, fantastical imaginings and necessary task to sparkle up any dank corner of your present or future.

And now for the bomb shell dropped of the pun which is actually only ever the thud of a mostly hollow skull hitting the floor after a banana peel slip: You don't have to be an ideologue to keep an Idea Log.

I told you it would be bad. There are however, something that advance notice just can't make better.