Thursday, September 27, 2012

Holding Pattern


2012 has been a banner year for The Secret Sun and a surprising one. My original plan was to kick launch the Radio Mystery Hour in full force and have that be the backbone of the blog but other topics snuck up on me, quite by surprise.


Unfortunately, some considerably less pleasant surprises have befallen me out here in Meatspace, taking my attention away from The Sun for the time being. And as I wrote previously, scheduling snafus have complicated the Radio Mystery Hour relaunch as well. This is to be expected, seeing that a lot of people I want to speak with are involved in academia in one way or another.

But there's a time to reap and a time to sow and a time to let the fields lie fallow. The Sun has been on fire this year (every month has set an all-time hit record, with August the biggest-ever month in our history) and there's also a 24/7 discussion taking place on the Facebook page. 

I'll be continuing to post scintillating links there while I get my ducks in order on the homefront. And I will get The Secret Sun Radio Mystery Hour up and running as soon as I have a few episodes in the can.

Strangely enough, some of those topics I mentioned before are bleeding over from Ideaspace over into Meatspace. I wish that was as fun as it sounded, but I can't deny that I've been dragged, kicking and screaming, onto a path set out for me before I was born. More on all of that in the days to come.

In the meantime, please note that I've revamped the topic index in order to make your Secret Sun browsing experience more efficient. So don't hestitate to dig into the massive archives. One thing I've notice on the FB group is that new readers don't realize that if they're interested in a particular topic, chances are pretty good I've written about it here.