Again? Really?

Well, yes. Enough of you have asked what happened to the last blog that I've gone and done this. Again.

To answer the common question, VITC is gone because I chose not to pay the renewal fee. It's not that I didn't want to, but I'm cheap. And cheap people make these kind of decisions. I'm also doing this because there's a lot going on right now, and I'm getting tired of telling eight billion people the same story. Inevitably, the story gets shorter and shorter as I retell it. So why not tell it once here?

Losing VITC to history is something I regret at this point. However, the dream I had for it, the vision that led me to make it is not gone. I will bring it back at some point, perhaps in a year or two. I believe in it. I want it to happen.

So what will this be? It's going to be very stream of consciousness. I may talk about my day, I may vent, I may express feelings, I may throw up a poem I wrote. I really don't know, and neither should you. In fact, I hope you come here wondering what to find, be it 2,000 words on a girl smiling at me or my latest lame poem.

I'm attacking this whole writing thing from three fronts at the moment. You should already know about my Speakeasy column (http://www.speakeasymag.com/index.php/blogs/article/category/The%20Whirling%20Dervish/), updated every Wednesday. I will probably link to each week's edition from here as well if you're too lazy/unable to remember to do so yourself. Obviously, I have this.

I'm also branching out with my political/news writing to try and reach a wider audience. I have another column at www.thewhirlingdervish.newsvine.com as well. That will be where I will levy my criticism of news and politics among other things. Out of the three projects, I am most excited about this. In addition to my columns (updated whenever I feel like), you'll find news articles I have flagged as interesting for one reason or another, as well as various Web recommendations. I hope you like it and will check it out. Please tell friends.

Oh, by the way, this is something of a private deal, this here blog. Only people I have given the URL to should be reading this. It means, in general, that I trust you and that nothing I write here is going to damage you or myself. This means my family shouldn't know about this, and the girl shouldn't know about this. I would appreciate if you respected the relative anonymity of this venture.

And always, leave comments. I love them. Even if you think I'm an idiot, and you all do at some point. And thanks for stopping by, San Diego.