I have been without a web presence for too long now considering I had a Geocities page back when they were actually cool (I mean like 1995 cool). I was off of the web by 2001 and now I have returned, in bad taste and bad judgement.
But still, why? Mostly I think it's because Barack gave me a bail-out.
Though in reality, it's most likely because this 'Internet' fad seemed to really pan out. I really thought for a while there when Pets.com went under (the first time) that there was little time left for this 'web' thing and that in no time I would be back to making regular phone calls to my friends, putting up flyers on city walls and playing Risk in person with people I knew.
Now what I really do is poke acquaintances that Facebook tells me are my friends, or at least suggests to me might be my friends, if I really try hard and ask them nicely. Instead of flyers I spend my day, 'posting' notes, blogs, tweets, and who knows what else and playing Risk with people I will never know in person.
Even with all that, it seems you can't really survive without a web presence, or at least that is what all my friends tell me. Real and virtual. So. That's why.
Now the, what?
Well, this website and the blog together should serve as a way for me to keep a dialog open between the people who read the various different postings and what I suppose were 'blog posts' back before the term had been officially coined. The blog will replace the conversation, the main gallery site will act as the storefront - think of the Blog as Customer Service, Returns and Exchanges.
I am available on Facebook, and Twitter and am on MySpace (and remain a part of it in profile alone) and found neither really was what the 'fans' remember from the days at the Garage Online Magazine (1997-2000) or at Showoff Magrag (1998-2000) or even the oddly well-trafficked Spaz's Utter Confucius (1996-2002), and so I set out to do something that at the very least lets people know what I as a writer have written and what I as a person have lived and plan to live out.
G. Wander,
Editor-in-Chief.
