Posted by Pinky.

We’ve been tidying up the Pinky Show website, which has given us a chance to go through all the old stuff that we had kind of forgotten about and look at it again. There’s some materials that we still use a lot when we go out and do workshops and stuff, but most of the stuff we haven’t looked at in years. And a lot of our reaction to our older work is like, “eww…”

Old diary entries too. Some of the entries are okay, but a fair amount of them are pretty embarrassing to read now. Has our taste changed? Have we improved as writers? Or maybe we’re gotten worse? What was I thinking??? Anyway, it’s hard to tell what all this really means, but one thing that’s clear is that we’re not happy with a lot of the old stuff.

Which brings up the same question over and over again: “Should we even keep this on our website? Or should we just throw it away?”

Well, we decided to keep everything as-is. Some of that stuff really does make us cringe, but like Drittens says, “I hope everybody understands that we are trying to keep growing.” I do like the idea of letting the website be a record of where we’ve been, wrong turns and all.

Still, I really wish I hadn’t written or said lots of those things.

~p.

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Posted by Kim: Don’t worry Pinky, I think it’s good to leave all that embarrassing stuff on the PS website. Even the mistakes and the things you regret saying. I think when people go back and edit out all the stuff they don’t like about their lives, it’s almost like making believe that you were always so smart, or always right.