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Friday, October 28th, 2005
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5:41 pm - kookymojito is alive. goodbye kookymojo. gogogo!
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I'm retiring the name. I've been thinking about doing this on-and-off since I stopped blogging regularly, which was way back in 2003. Even though I started posting on this livejournal with regularity, I still kept meaning to change my online identity. I've been known as kookymojo (or variants thereof, such as this livejournal) for almost half a decade (it'll be five years in December), and, to be honest, I haven't felt like I've been living up to the name for a couple of years. kookymojo was fun, flirtatious, quirky, colourful, kitsch. kookymojo dug up cool retrofuture links and talked about pop culture. kookymojo didn't spend all her time whining about her life. kookymojo was hot pink.
I got sick of hot pink, but I miss kookymojo. But we haven't really had her around for years. I think my last job killed her. I stopped posting all those coolkitschfunretrofuturepoplinks on my blog and started posting them elsewhere, and the content of my blog became almost exclusively work-related, which was interesting and useful for me and some people, but I know most of the people who'd become regular readers found it extremely dull and stopped reading (though my readership numbers never actually changed that much, because I got a new readership of techgeeks and copyright nerds).
Then, somewhere along the line, I lost my blogging mojo altogether. My net access became irregular, and I needed somewhere to post occasionally so I could let people know I was still alive. I decided to use Livejournal because a) Livejournal was one of the first sites to provide decent syndication for free, so people didn't need to keep checking my old blog for updates, b) a large chunk of my online and real-life friends were already on Livejournal anyway, c) it's where people went when they wanted to talk in mundane detail about their lives, and d) I could lock some posts so that they were private or friends-only.
That last point is one of the reasons I am staying with Livejournal. All the blogging applications now offer some kind of syndication, and I have a lot of friends who aren't on Livejournal, but, it was only the ones already on Livejournal who ever let me know they were paying attention. Lately, though, I feel like I'm losing even their interest because I've been posting so much negative, whiny shit. I'm bored and fed up with that, so I'm not surprised if everyone else is. So, time to face up to it and let poor kookymojo retire. Time to start anew with another name. And if I'm starting over with a new online name, I want to start over with a new attitude, too. I've been getting bogged down in too much negativity, and, besides, I haven't drunk a mojito in ages.
As I said, I miss kookymojo. I want to be fun, flirtatious, quirky, colourful, and kitsch again. I'm going to kickstart the new me (or is that the old me?), starting now. I'm going to get back into some old-fashioned weblogging, posting more of those coolkitschfunretrofuturepoplinks, over at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mondoagogo. I have a new Flickr account. I also have a new email address. It's still a Yahoo! account, but instead of kookymojo, it's mondo_agogo (you can also still get me on my Gmail account, if you have that address).
I'm also starting a new, friends-locked livejournal: mondosolo Having not kept any kind of diary for years, I found myself enjoying the journalling/diaristic (I think that's not a real word) aspects of writing on here, self-indulgent though it obviously is. However, I also realised that I'm not entirely comfortable with talking about my life publicly all the time, so unless you have an LJ account you won't be able to read it (since no one not on LJ ever left comments or let me know they were reading, I don't think anyone is actually going to miss me). I'm going to try not whinging about my life too much, but since it's going to be friends-only, there will probably be times when I want to sound-off about something and maybe ask your advice, and you'll just have to put up with that. Trying to maintain a rosy outlook on life is tough when you're battling depressive moodswings, lack of confidence and plain bad luck, but I'll do my best. I'll probably need your support, though, and I'm not too big to ask for it.
I'm not deleting any of the accounts I have online that are associated with kookymojo, because there are memories and archives that I want to keep for myself, but I have turned off archiving or made entries private. If you want new updates, though, you'll have to start looking elsewhere. GOGOGO!
(I should like to add, too, that it was simple synchronicity that led to Mike Allred's Solo comic coming out this week, from which I took all these groovy speech bubbles that were so apropos.)
current music: The Rolling Stones: You Can't Always Get What You Want
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