My first guest post: Banango Lit

                For those unaware, I was featured on Banango Lit this Sunday in an exciting guestpost. I feel extremely happy seeing my work somewhere else. Usually I stay here, don’t really move anywhere, and publish things en masse on this delightful Blogspot, Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook. Having my work shown on Banango tickles me all kinds of pink. I happen to be a big fan of Banango, having covered them earlier this year. I have even covered some of their posts before, creating what some social scientists call ‘a circle of boost’. 

                I experience joy every time I come on here. But to be elsewhere makes me want to travel down this internet highway with the top down. I want to be somewhere outside of Barstow when the blogging begins to take hold of my fragile, eggshell mind. I oftentimes yearn for an attorney to accompany me on this vast stretch of internet highway, but I all I have found are a bunch of internet vagabonds. Someday I hope to find someone as anonymous and weird to share this delightful blogspot, to be an ‘author’ of this deeply weird yet completely impersonal blogspot. 

                Seeing Banango begin that process for me is pure magic indeed. I like their arrangement. They have three writers, Rachel Hymen, Justin Carter, and the Californian Diana Salier (I only mention her state since I have not been to California and want to go). I am their second guest writer. I am in good company. Who is the first you might ask? None other than the internet famous, IRL anonymous man/woman known as Peterbd, who came up with a top 200 reasons to enjoy Banango. Personally, I think peterbd is a bro, hence the peter, but I may never know for certain. Pretty stoked I share the guest post spot with Peterbd, for Peterbd is the chilliest of bros. Glad Banango supports positive online anonymity. 

                After reading my post and feeling all kinds of wonderful, I thought to myself: maybe I can soar, through that open online submission door. Perhaps I can submit to the other anonymous online entity, Happy Dog Mom Lit Journal, the one everybody is talking about. Maybe I can do that, though I may have to submit it as an even more anonymous version of myself. If I submit as a more anonymous version of myself that may be funny, since then my online presence, already murky to begin with, can get even murkier. 

                Or, and I wrote about this last week, I can finally try to achieve my lifetime dream: to get a piece on Thought Catalog, the hottest, greatest, most twenty-somethingest thing on the entire internet. Like I said before, it may be hard. I may be a bit too old for it, being a 38 year old blogger of two from Libby, Montana. It seems Thought Catalog likes submissions from the coasts, not from America’s heartland. Still, after feeling a rush from the Banango piece, perhaps anything is possible. Maybe this Christmas I will get the greatest gift of all, that of online relevancy. Let’s see.