Blair's Soliloquies, Issue Forty-Five
Yes folks, this is the end.
I’ll cut to the chase right away; due to various reasons, most importantly stuff going on in my personal life currently, I will not be doing any further wrestling reviews or writing about any recaps of what I think about events revolving around the local wrestling scene, whether it be on my Blair Reviews page on Livejournal, on Florida Wrestling Fans, or anywhere else.
Do not ask me what the circumstances are concerning this happening. It’s on a “need to know” sort of basis and I’ll explain here as vaguely as possible why I’ve decided to go this direction.
Basically, various things have been going on in my personal life since about the time I got back from my Illinois (and elsewhere) vacation in the middle of August and it’s been more than one or two different things happening to me also; it’s been mentally draining on me and to be honest, I’ve felt pretty crappy for much of that time period. One of those things had an adverse effect on me back in late November during the JPMC weekend and the pair of shows I reviewed there. It seems like a bunch of awful shit has been happening to me in recent months and it’s continued this month. The shit hit the fan yesterday and I’ve decided that it is time for me to stop doing this. I mean, Monday was my 29th (!) birthday and I’ve been doing reviews on Blair Reviews since early 2005 and started doing this earlier than that. I’m almost 30 and plus I need to focus on other things in my life now, so this will go by the wayside. I’ll keep everything up on the page and it won’t close down; I just won’t add any further content to it.
If you don’t remember me telling this way back when, I unwittingly started doing reviews of wrestling shows back in late 2002 (during another real bad time in my life) when I attended a show in nearby Bloomington, Illinois while a student at Illinois State University. Some people were impressed by how I did the review and one wanted me to write for his site and I joined. That site merged with a Chicago-based indy wrestling site so I wrote for them (and in hindsight, I was pretty bad back then) until I moved to Florida in May of ’04. I wrote reviews of early shows on the Chicago site’s messageboard before I decided to open Blair’s Reviews in late January of ’05 and I ported the messageboard reviews to that site. Since then I’ve talked about the scene and I’ve gotten into far much more trouble there then I ever could have imagined back in the early days of ’05.
I’ve been able to meet and get to know many people and that is greatly appreciated by me. Truthfully, though, late last year I was thinking of writing this and stopping my writing here. But, I was hoping that my life would take an upturn and things would be hunky-dory again. Well, I was wrong, and that’s why I’m making this decision now.
Before anyone asks, I do still plan on attending wrestling shows. Who knows how many I’ll be able to go to but I still want to attend events and chat/meet up with people I call acquaintances there. I just have no idea when my next wrestling show will be that I’ll be able to attend.
I would like to thank all the readers of this blog for deciding to spend all their time reading my ramblings. Yes, even the people who I disliked and/or those who disliked me. My feelings on those people haven’t changed, mind you; it’s just nice that they all read what I wrote despite what they have said about me in the past.
I could ramble on and on but I don’t want to be long-winded so I’ll leave it be here and I’ll wish the best for everyone and hopefully the effects of me-allegedly-stirring up shit will be gone now that I won’t be doing anything but brief messageboard posts now when it comes to this scene.
I’ll cut to the chase right away; due to various reasons, most importantly stuff going on in my personal life currently, I will not be doing any further wrestling reviews or writing about any recaps of what I think about events revolving around the local wrestling scene, whether it be on my Blair Reviews page on Livejournal, on Florida Wrestling Fans, or anywhere else.
Do not ask me what the circumstances are concerning this happening. It’s on a “need to know” sort of basis and I’ll explain here as vaguely as possible why I’ve decided to go this direction.
Basically, various things have been going on in my personal life since about the time I got back from my Illinois (and elsewhere) vacation in the middle of August and it’s been more than one or two different things happening to me also; it’s been mentally draining on me and to be honest, I’ve felt pretty crappy for much of that time period. One of those things had an adverse effect on me back in late November during the JPMC weekend and the pair of shows I reviewed there. It seems like a bunch of awful shit has been happening to me in recent months and it’s continued this month. The shit hit the fan yesterday and I’ve decided that it is time for me to stop doing this. I mean, Monday was my 29th (!) birthday and I’ve been doing reviews on Blair Reviews since early 2005 and started doing this earlier than that. I’m almost 30 and plus I need to focus on other things in my life now, so this will go by the wayside. I’ll keep everything up on the page and it won’t close down; I just won’t add any further content to it.
If you don’t remember me telling this way back when, I unwittingly started doing reviews of wrestling shows back in late 2002 (during another real bad time in my life) when I attended a show in nearby Bloomington, Illinois while a student at Illinois State University. Some people were impressed by how I did the review and one wanted me to write for his site and I joined. That site merged with a Chicago-based indy wrestling site so I wrote for them (and in hindsight, I was pretty bad back then) until I moved to Florida in May of ’04. I wrote reviews of early shows on the Chicago site’s messageboard before I decided to open Blair’s Reviews in late January of ’05 and I ported the messageboard reviews to that site. Since then I’ve talked about the scene and I’ve gotten into far much more trouble there then I ever could have imagined back in the early days of ’05.
I’ve been able to meet and get to know many people and that is greatly appreciated by me. Truthfully, though, late last year I was thinking of writing this and stopping my writing here. But, I was hoping that my life would take an upturn and things would be hunky-dory again. Well, I was wrong, and that’s why I’m making this decision now.
Before anyone asks, I do still plan on attending wrestling shows. Who knows how many I’ll be able to go to but I still want to attend events and chat/meet up with people I call acquaintances there. I just have no idea when my next wrestling show will be that I’ll be able to attend.
I would like to thank all the readers of this blog for deciding to spend all their time reading my ramblings. Yes, even the people who I disliked and/or those who disliked me. My feelings on those people haven’t changed, mind you; it’s just nice that they all read what I wrote despite what they have said about me in the past.
I could ramble on and on but I don’t want to be long-winded so I’ll leave it be here and I’ll wish the best for everyone and hopefully the effects of me-allegedly-stirring up shit will be gone now that I won’t be doing anything but brief messageboard posts now when it comes to this scene.