Boy, it’s nice to have fewer places to update these days, since I quit Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and now that I just use Bluesky… although I still sometimes forget to cross post here. To be honest it was so much more enjoyable way back before “social networks” even existed and everyone used blogs and RSS feeds. But that’s a completely different conversation…
I’ll be giving a talk about yokai and kaidan with Kyoto-based yokai researcher Kōno Jun’ya down in Osaka this May 2, at the Osaka Museum of History. As you can tell by the poster below, some of this will have to do with Koizumi Yakumo (aka Lafcadio Hearn), as he has been in the news a lot lately with the conclusion of the morning TV drama “Bake Bake” / “The Ghost-Writer’s Wife.” There will also be a biwa-player and kaidan-teller! That should be extremely cool!
Click on the poster below to register. I hope to see you there!
Honestly, I noped out of ever joining Facebook, Twitter, or any of the umpteen dozen other too big for their own good social networks after abandoning my MySpace like a week after joining and have never regretted that decision. Give me a good, old fashioned forum dedicated to a specific interest and ran by people who actually care about community building over a corporate run monstrosity where the admins only care about clicks and ad revenue and data harvesting any day… a real shame that Forums have become an endangered species and everything is a Facebook Group, subreddit, or discord server these days…
Also, never used RSS. I just have this website bookmarked and check for new posts daily.
I fully agree! I miss the days of dedicated forums. There are few of them left today, as most of them got absorbed into the social network ecosystem.