Iwan ( 12 years ago )
Excellent post above on "teaching math".Along those lines: In 1987 this story was fresh; In 1997 this story was familiar; In 2007 this story, along with the iSteve comrentamy, is boring.Steve, your hometown Los Angeles is dropping off functional America's radar. And your California stories increasingly register as missives from a boring, brown version of the USA. In another ten years you'll need to move to another state in order to maintain an audience for your local color stories. Because the  truth is that "hot-blooded" Latin culture, with the corrupt plutocracy sitting on top of the dysfunctional brown masses, is intensely boring. There is little innovation in art, and no innovation in science. And there is only a sideline role in world events. Have you considered that if you were writing in Spanish and headquartered somewhere in Latin America that your blog would fall on deaf ears? That it wouldn't "compute"? In a Latin-American country you wouldn't have the Reconquista to generate sparks. Your math/science topics would generate mass clickaways. You'd be reduced to easy-to-understand Latin-themed movie reviews. No, Steve you'll eventually have to move in order to keep your blogging hobby interesting. You could go up to the Bay Area and start regaling your readers with the Asian-American phenomenon. With tales of going to the mall on the weekend surrounded by nothing but Asian faces in Silicon Valley. Or would that be boring too? It does seem that the network show bookers can't maintain audience with Asian guests. But I'm sure you can figure something out.