I have recently – within the last 4-5 months – taken a big step back from microblogging social media sites; namely Twitter and Threads. Twitter has obviously become a festering cesspool of MAGA activity and I figured if my suggested “for you” page was making me nauseated to read, maybe my association with that app needs to come to a close. I thought Threads might be a good replacement but I quickly discovered I do not like the people who are on Threads. It is populated by angry lefties who want to fight with everyone, even those who are on their side. I never in my life have been attacked by so many people I align with politically as I was on Threads, simply for imagined implications on their part.

Funnily enough, once I stepped away and quit doomscrolling, it helped with my anxiety. Go figure.

Anyway so now that I don’t have those sites/apps to dump all my bits and pieces that my brain comes up with that are too short or too numerous for Facebook statuses or my IG story. I suddenly realized, hey. I’ve been paying for this blog hosting and the URL for nearly 20 years and I’m not currently using it at all. What better place to stash all the little thoughts and notions that pop into my head than on my very own blog? In light of this I’m going to create a new category of post, for the ones that are collections of brief ideas or statements that don’t really fit anywhere else.

I’m calling the category “banchan,” which is the Korean word for all the little side dishes you get with a meal. 🙂