Oh wait, I’m a blogger

Life is crazy.

No really I mean it, life is frickin’ nuts. It’s great. It’s been busy. The Bear Scene in DC has moved into my neighborhood, and I’ve met so many new people. And I’ve been finally seeing people I already know and hanging out again.

The DC Bear renaissance is why I started to blog at dcbearscene.com. I really want to get more people involved blogging there. Especially since when my work picks up, I usually can’t spend much time focusing on blogging. People can post about their own events. I’ve started to set that up, but now it’s time to show my fellow bloggers how to use things like the photo upload and event calendar. I have my own personal opinion about the Bear explosion that’s been happening in DC. I think it has its good and bad points, and I’m curious to hear what others have to say.

Bearnakedjoe.com is my most personal blog, so I suppose I should write and try to explain all the things I’ve been doing. I don’t really go into all of my personal stuff online much, and I’ve been doing a lot of personal stuff. That’s really the main reason I’ve not been updating on here. I tried to blog more newsy type stuff there for a while, but my full-time job and my photography really don’t leave me much time to break news on a blog, certainly not as well as other gay bloggers in the field. And I promised myself to not get outrage fatigue, which is something that comes all too easy if you blog about LGBT newsworthy items. But I know photography. And I know DC.

And I kind of know Philly. I recently visited Philly with my good friend Chris. I lived there for 8 years – it’s where I coined my nickname Bearnaked Joe. I should tell some of the tale in a future post, since it was an amazing weekend of just-in-time connections. Chris and I wandered the streets and I showed him places I hung out in the past with some of my best friends in Philly. We saw strongmen and puppish cops, including my new favorite. Yes, hanging out with Chris, aka “Bullneck,” has taught me to have a favorite cop. It’s true: We are the sum of the people we know.

I also went home with Dave to visit Ohio. It was a great trip seeing the family, having some of my favorite food, and marching with my alumni band in the Memorial Day parade. We got an Air Force flyby that almost made me wet my pants.

On the photography front, I had an exciting evening being part of a panel discussion about the use of metadata and photography workflow as part of a tour being hosted by Stock Artists Alliance and Photoshelter. I’ll always remember that’s where I was when I heard that Michael Jackson had died.

I also got an iPhone 3GS. I liked the way my review of the Shuffle worked out, so I may review the iPhone 3GS as well. Yeah I’m sure you’ve read a lot already. You can skip it if you want. But some people might like my detailed look at the thing.

I joined a gym. OK, I haven’t gone yet, but I joined a gym.

So this is my blog entry for today. It’s representative of my feelings about being on the Web. I want everyone to read my site and have wonderful things to say, sure. But then I turn to Facebook and think “who is this person and why in the heck do they want to friend me?” It’s an odd thing being part of an online culture where everything we do now we voluntarily published. We only let others see what we want them to see. Sometimes I don’t want you to see anything. Some people show us too much.

It reminds me of my favorite Facebook status update I’ve made so far. In a purely digital forum and in the most pubic place I know, I stated “Joe secretly longs for an analog world.” I miss when bells were real bells, and when you actually dialed a phone. But I still don’t want to give up my iPhone 3GS.

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