​Reorganizing the Website: A New Blog for a New Direction

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Over the past several months, I have been reconsidering not only the content of this website but also the way its structure represents the project’s evolving purpose. As part of that process, I have archived the original blog page and created a new one that more accurately reflects the direction the site has taken since the cancellation of my Facebook page in June 2026. The change is not merely cosmetic. It marks a broader shift in the relationship between the website, the research, and the public presentation of the work.

The original blog belonged to an earlier stage of the site’s development. It was created while my Facebook page remained active and therefore existed within a larger social-media framework. The two platforms functioned alongside one another, with the blog often extending work whose primary public audience remained on Facebook. That arrangement naturally encouraged frequent updates, visual material, short announcements, and an emphasis on immediate engagement.

The cancellation of the Facebook page fundamentally altered that structure. The website no longer needs to serve as a secondary destination for material introduced through social media or reproduce the pace and expectations of maintaining an active presence there. Although the previous blog suited that earlier period of regular posting and rapid response, the work has since moved beyond that model. What began largely as an online fan page has gradually become an independent research and writing project concerned with Farrah Fawcett, celebrity culture, memory, representation, and the broader experience of fandom.

The essays have consequently assumed a more important role. They provide space for sustained analysis, historical context, interpretation, and reflection in ways that social-media posts rarely could. The site is no longer organized primarily around the circulation of images or the maintenance of a daily online presence. Its central purpose has become the development of ideas through careful research and writing.

The blog will serve a different but complementary purpose. Rather than functioning mainly as a chronological stream of brief updates, it will provide a place to examine the research process, the evolution of the website, and the questions that arise from studying a public figure across decades of photographs, interviews, performances, biographies, magazines, and archival material. Some subjects may eventually develop into formal essays, while others may remain shorter observations better suited to the blog’s more flexible form.

Archiving the former page allows the website to retain that earlier material without remaining structurally bound to it. The blog was shaped by circumstances that no longer exist. Preserving it as an archive acknowledges the history of the work while allowing the current site to adopt a form more appropriate to its present identity.

The visual dimension of the website will also develop alongside the writing. I plan to introduce a small selection of merchandise created specifically for the project, using images of Farrah photographed by Milton Greene. These items may include photographic prints, T-shirts, and other related pieces. They will not replace the essays and research that define the site, but will offer another way of presenting selected images within a context shaped by its own identity and direction.

Leaving Facebook has also changed my relationship with time and productivity. Social media privileges immediacy. Posts are quickly replaced by newer material, audience reaction is measured almost at once, and the pressure to remain visible can influence both the frequency and character of what is published. Under those conditions, activity can easily become confused with progress, while follower counts, reactions, and shares begin to function as measures of value.

The website can now be approached not as a replacement for social media but as a distinct form of publication. It is the primary home of the work rather than a companion to a larger platform, and its organization should reflect sustained attention, careful research, editorial independence, and long-term development.

In this new arrangement, the blog will provide continuity between individual essays while preserving a clear distinction between formal analysis and more exploratory commentary. It will also create a record of how the work changes over time, including the discoveries, uncertainties, decisions, and revisions that shape the published essays.
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The new blog therefore represents both continuity and departure. It preserves the project’s history while establishing a clearer framework for its future. The website is becoming more focused, more independent, and more closely aligned with the essays, research, and carefully selected visual material that now define it. Freed from the demands of social media, it can develop as a sustained archive of inquiry, interpretation, and reflection.