The Birth of BXT and What It Means For Thoughtnami

In case you haven't visited The X Bridge in recent weeks, you probably didn't realize that I launched BXT, a new subsection of the Opinions section that is the flipside of what's normally talked about at The X Bridge.

I created BXT after realizing that although I'm kind of bored talking about just action-animation and "whitching and bining" about Cartoon Network over and over, I needed a forum to talk in a longer format, something that I couldn't do on a regular basis at Thoughtnami.

That whole Defending the 80s article couldn't be written here in full without taking up a huge chunk of the screen, and I know that readers may not have the patience to read a long screen of pictureless text. I hope Toon Zone doesn't mind. I just wanted to make an unfiltered section where I could just vent about everything.

That said, this is not the last post of Thoughtnami. I feel that this place has a lot of potential, perhaps as a place where I could be a little more personal with the readers, at least those that still check out TXB from time to time, not really the fareweather readers that only come to the site when something big happens in the world of Toonami and want to see what I might think of it. I like this place, and I feel it's a little side-project of sorts where I could just talk and have a little fun.

In this hectic world of ours, I need to have a little fun now and then. Hope we could have fun together.

Comments

Ellen Yu said…
It's great to have a place to vent. I'm looking forward for the BXT and Thoughtnami. I hope everything is going well for you back at home.
12/13/2006 12:13:00 AM
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