Welcome to the latest of many incarnations of The Asylum Eclectica.\u00a0 When I originally started the site, back in 1996, it was under the name Typhoid Mary’s Asylum.\u00a0 Around 1998 or so, I changed it to The Asylum Eclectica because, amazingly enough, no one else had thought to use that name.\u00a0 Perhaps because only a select few can actually spell it?<\/p>\n
In any event, after maintaining the website for so many years, focusing primarily on the Morbid Fact Du Jour<\/a> newsletter and its tight format, I found myself stuck in a rut.\u00a0 Between work, life, and other hobbies, I found myself\u00a0without the time necessary to invest in a daily newsletter, and it showed!\u00a0 The Morbid Fact Du Jour dwindled to a Morbid Fact Du Month, if I was lucky.\u00a0 I thought about quitting the website entirely, but on a daily basis, there was still that moment when I stumbled upon something that fascinated me, that I wanted to share with others.\u00a0 It wasn’t the subject matter that bored me – it was the format.<\/p>\n I found myself envious of friends who had blogs.\u00a0 Whereas once I had been dismissive of blogs because, after all, I didn’t need one (“I already have a website”), I started to realize the fun possibilities of a more freestyle, interactive format.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0So, after\u00a0pondering\u00a0upon it\u00a0for awhile, I decided that a blog would be a much more entertaining and less restrictive format than a daily newsletter.\u00a0 It will allow me to focus on a wider range of topics, without the pressure of having to produce a daily update, while still allowing me to share morbid facts as I stumble upon them.\u00a0\u00a0 I will also be able to\u00a0include multimedia\u00a0files\u00a0and images with my posts, whereas the newsletter was restricted to links due to e-mail limitations. \u00a0Those who wish to subscribe to the blog can still do so via the subscribe buttons on the right, and those who’d rather make occasional web visits can do that as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n None of the original Asylum Eclectica content (such as Morbid Fact Du Jour<\/a>, The Morbid Sightseer<\/a>, Malady of the Month<\/a>, etc.) is going away, and I will continue to update those pages with the information I present here in the blog.\u00a0 (Essentially, the blog will be the portal to\u00a0updates to the archives.)\u00a0 \u00a0I will also be working on a “prettier” version of the blog in the future, but I\u00a0didn’t want to delay any longer in getting it up and running.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0I hope that this new format is as fun for you to read as it will be for me to write.\u00a0<\/p>\n Yours In Morbidity, Welcome to the latest of many incarnations of The Asylum Eclectica.\u00a0 When I originally started the site, back in 1996, it was under the name Typhoid Mary’s Asylum.\u00a0 Around 1998 or so, I changed it to The Asylum Eclectica because, amazingly enough, no one else had thought to use that name.\u00a0 Perhaps because only a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sundry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4166,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions\/4166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Comtesse DeSpair<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"