Those who know me already, welcome.
To newcomers getting oriented, I’m Craig, a journalist who plunged into digital media with high hopes and bashed away at it over the first twenty years of the 21st century with a mix of awe, bewilderment, amazement and disillusionment. My job, which I love, is covering music news and hosting talk show The String for WMOT Roots Radio 89.5 FM in Middle Tennessee. This is where I’m writing these days for myself and whomever is interested.
Truthfully, this new space is my strategic retreat from Facebook. For reasons I’ll describe in future posts, I can’t be part of Facebook anymore, because alas, it now does more harm than good, to society and myself. (Substack is currently run by three dudes and a dog, and if somebody tells me Facebook has acquired it, I’ll just end it all.) I’ve spent a decade spouting off on my passion subjects - politics and culture above all - on the Facebook, and it’s just over. More TK.
The last thing I need is another digital platform, with its passwords and whatnot. But I’m excited about a new outlet where I can remark on whatever interests me, a good old fashioned blog. Here it is.
Here’s how it works. You can bookmark the home URL for this blog like the old days. Visit any time. But what I’d appreciate is if you’d hit the subscribe button, leave your email and watch your inbox. Every week or two (not sure of the routine yet) I’ll send a highlights email with the best posts, my WMOT news pieces and The String, as new episodes go up.
The title of this post is a quote from the Book of Numbers (23:23) and it was the first typed out message that Samuel Morse sent over the telegraph he’d just invented. The world changed then. It’s been changing. It’s changing again. I ain’t afraid. Let’s figure it out through thinking, reading, talking and music.