Welcome to Hyperjabber
I know you’re expecting an introduction to Hyperjabber. Something that tells you what it is, what you can expect, and why you should read it, but the truth is I have no fucking idea. This thing is a creative itch that’s harassed and tempted me for decades. Aborted attempts to scratch this itch are scattered across hard drives and stuffed into boxes crammed with paper. I’ve tried fiction, journals, essays, technical books, and really bad poetry, but the itch persists. I’ve discovered that music, games, and sex can soothe the itch, but in the dark hours of the early morning it squirms back into my brain, and I swing my legs out of a warm bed and wander downstairs to a cold keyboard.
Maybe I’ll never scratch this itch in a way that truly satisfies. Maybe scratching at it is my Sisyphean task. Maybe these scratches, which become scribbles, which become words that conjure a slant reality are my eternal curse. Oh! Woe is me. But if I’m honest with myself (which turns out to be not as straightforward as I thought), I admit that deep down I love the scratching. These glorious words strung together in sentences that reimagine the world and build bridges between the self and everything else are a joy to write. I just need to let go of the idea that there are right ways and wrong ways to scratch an itch.
And here is where I always end up when I try to explain Hyperjabber. My explanation of the thing turns out to be the thing itself, and I realize that I haven’t really explained anything at all. So what is Hyperjabber? It is me trying to scratch that itch by writing about my experience of the world. The word experience is the key that distinguishes Hyperjabber from all of my previous writing.
In the past, I’ve written fiction and I’ve written about fiction, but now in Hyperjabber I plan to write about my experience of fiction, about my experience of music, my experience of books, art, technology, culture, and anything else that grabs my interest. Writing about experience allows me to blend the exterior with the interior, the real with the unreal. It gives me room to observe, consider, and imagine; room to discover wonder in the world. It feels like something that just might finally scratch that itch, if just for a bit.
In any case, Hyperjabber is an open invitation to join me as I scratch at the world to see what lies beneath.
