I have an issue with blogs as it's close to impossible to create one with enough cohesion that it could be considered a ¨piece.¨ Blogs are too random & sprawling and run counter to my impulse to contain & edit & present. My schooling and my disposition leave me with moderate distaste for projects conceived of & executed in anything but full. But as we all know by now, blogs are occasionally the best platform because they are the only platform and beggars can & do not choose. And I'm sure that someone more patient and talented than I could work with the problematic format of a blog, & someone with a better feel for the internet and its unique advantages could make a blog that couldn't exist in any other form, but that takes a real sensitivity, passion and understanding of the medium, & I don't feel that way about blogs, & ultimately, I want the game that I change to take place off the internet, so if we're choosing ambitions, I'm likely better served by putting my efforts elsewhere than obtaining sufficient blogging fluency to make it serve my purposes (and serve them well). But this is all really a big disclaimer because what I'm starting here is in fact a blog so traditional that I can't even ask that you think of it as ¨a version of a blog.¨ What I do ask is that you know going in that I'm thinking of each post as an issue and as a part of a personal publication. I intend that each of these issues be self-contained and bound - as in book - as well as bound - as in linked - to me & the issues and themes that I care a lot, a lot about.