How Weird Do You All Want This Blog To Be?

I have conflicted feelings about how weird and experimental a blog like this should be.

One model is like a restaurant: a blog exists to serve up variations on a particular theme. When I go to an Italian restaurant I am doing it because I want to eat some kind of wheat-cheese-tomato combo, and while I'm fine with the restaurant adding some light original flourishes, I will be fundamentally betrayed if they suddenly serve me a thai green curry. And this is true even though I love green curry, and even if it's unexpectedly a good green curry.

Another model is like a snack conglomerate: there's some limitations on the variety of outputs based on the skills and resources of the proprietors, and maybe some very loose sense boundaries to what kinds of things count as "a snack," but fundamentally the output can cover a lot of ground, and its understood by everyone that there will be misses as well as hits.

Part of the issue here is that there's two different ways to interact with this (or any) blog: you can be a regular reader who gets the new installments every week, or you can find yourself reading one standalone piece that fell into your stream somehow.

I suspect the regular readers might have a relationship to their favoured blogs more like a restaurant – I know I'd feel weird if Matt Levine suddenly started publishing speculative fiction under the banner of his finance newsletter, even though I suspect he'd write incredibly good spec-fic.

Meanwhile, the drive-through readers are treating this more like a snack they picked up at a train station – even if they enjoyed it they probably don't remember the name of the piece, and certainly not the name of the publication, so they really don't mind how (in)consistent the range of offerings is.

So far I've attempted only very minimal variation in my writing on this blog – I did try a couple of fiction pieces, which got 0 explicit reaction and which I therefore assume were not-good, but mostly I think the pieces are pretty consistent within a recognizable cluster of themes.

But I contain a great deal more weirdness, and could make this blog much weirder if desired; I also contain a great deal of classic atoms-vs-bits-ness, and could keep the blog whatever-it-currently-is as well.

What would you like to see here? Some of you will immediately tell me that I should do whatever I want to do, which is kind, but assume that I will incorporate my own preferences separately, and I care deeply about your own desires: how weird do you want the blog to be?