Attention! Your attention, please! A newsflash has this moment arrived from the Mallo bar front. Here is the news flash —
I had a Penn State Creamery Orange Vanilla Sunday Cone the other day. The sky was blue and sunny. It was beautiful. The day was beautiful. I have a food blog. And yet, you did not see it. I had my camera with me, but I did not take a picture. I did not take a picture because the summary food log format I have been using to “reduce the noise level on this blog” does not lend itself to the detailed photographs I had been taking of my food. Since it appears only weekly, it does not encourage the sort of spontaneity that desires a photograph of everything. I censored myself and in so doing, you all suffered. For that I am sorry.
I have decided that the purpose of this journal is actually to generate noise. It is an ongoing conversation with the past, the present, and the future, and it should not be censored in any way. Who am I to say what the future will find interesting or even important. As George Bernard Shaw said, “All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.”
Since I want to make progress, I am no longer going to censor myself, regardless of the perceived information content of what I have to say. I am going to log my food as I eat it and I am going to update those logs without indicating what the updates are. Those who want the first draft of history will simply have to pay attention and witness it themselves.
I am restoring the daily food log today and I am going to retroactively log what I have eaten in daily format since the last summary food log.
That is all. Please go back about your day. Nothing to see here. Move along… move along.