Trip On the Reality Bucket

A while back, I grabbed the domain realitybucket.com, inspired by Rob May and his CommerceBucket project of the time.

I wasn’t sure how I would use it.  Reality TV blogging?  A new personal blog?  Well, it went into our collection of cool domain names for future reference.

A while back, we decided to set it up as a “let it all hang out” political, and perhaps cultural context, place to do our “joke ‘em if they can’t take a...” blogging.  People could simply choose not to go there and read, and it would keep what we really think out from among the pictures of the kids and general inanity.

For that we decided to use RealityBucket.

We also decided to open the place to people who might want to unload sometimes, be they bloggers already or not, and be they like us, nearly straight up libertarians (with anarcho- tendencies in the ideal and realist- tendencies in the actual), left leaners, right leaners, horizontally prone, whatever.  After all, in truth few people don’t lean at least 51% libertarian, making them more with us than against us, and everyone sooner or later faces reality as it is.  It can be a chilly high dive, into the Reality Bucket.

We decided to use our known identities.  Family?  Yeah, you.  We don’t want to feel oppressed, so think whatever you want about what we post there, but if you disagree that vehemently, go quietly on your way and avoid the place.  That applies to RL and online friends, too.

There are a few people already with accounts there, mostly under aliases.

If you would like to post there, as yourself or under an alias, let me know at jay @ this domain.  Perhaps you don’t “do” political blogging, but sometimes feel like ranting and it’s pent up so not to offend your normal readers.  Or even the abnormal ones.  Perhaps you don’t blog at all, but would like an outlet, however infrequent.

I will need to know who you are and how you want to be known on the blog, and I will need an e-mail address to associate with your account via a forwarder (or directly).  If you are known as, say, Gandalf at RB, I will create an address gandalf @ the realitybucket.com domain, which will forward to the address you choose (or I’ll use the address you supply, if you prefer).

No, you won’t get paid for this.  Or you shouldn’t ever count on it.

If we become popular enough to have ad revenue that amounts to more than a pittance that helps justify the hosting and the effort of having the blog, we might seek to share, but we’ll cross that bridge when it spans something.

I, for one, do plan to post there, and have a backlog.  That includes intent to toss out individual issue posts, cover my stance, and invite other posters there to chime in on the same topic.  Speaking of reality, the other thing that came to mind in connection with such a blog and its name was annoyance with sound bite stances.  For instance, the political quizzes are way too “for X, or against it,” when your stance might be that it’s a state issue, not federal, or that you’re for a variant, or that you believe the starting assumption is nonsense and the question should be moot.

So sign up if you will.  Read or not, as you will.  It could be interesting.

Posted by on 01/12 at 01:20 PM

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