Sometimes things belong here, sometimes things belong there. Same site, different purposes.

If you're introducing yourself, or asking if the author ever still comes around, or trying to get a conversation going about grid-down conditions, or firearms, or biscuit recipes, you will find the forum much more fulfilling. If you blog elsewhere, and find ideas here are a little different so you desire interaction, the forum AND the live chat will be great for you. We have put in a LOT of effort in filling out the forum into fun place to poke around, get into topics, and ask questions.

Like most such places, the blog space here is for the essay writing, thought-provoking, story telling that requires little commentary. The commentary IS still welcome, some things just don't much need it. Some ideas are picked up on, in the forums, percolate through that dense matter that passes for human skulls, and eventually becomes a thing we feel a need to blog about. Though we try to keep everything reasonably friendly, so Kickstand might be smarting off half the time, and I might suggest a recipe for something many people wouldn't even consider food. That's just who we are.