And Away We Go

As the first post of a new blog I feel like there is a lot at stake here. Big things like setting precedents and creating awe-inspiring wisdom that shakes you to the very core and changes you from Random Web Visitor into Pedantic Fan Person. Numbers in the analytics go up up up and readers of the blog go comment comment comment. But I don’t respond to pressure; I just kind of respectfully nod at it, acknowledge it’s there and keep on walking like a shady character knocking about and crossing paths with a policeman – act calm and continue about my business. In spite of the push to draft some mind blowing prose, I decided instead to do things the good ol fashion way and pilfer the wisdom of another for my good fortune. If you’re need of spell binding first words, one need look no further than the opening paragraph of “The Adventures of Augie March” by Saul Bellow.

I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. But a man’s character is his fate, says Heraclitus, and in the end there isn’t any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.

That’s pretty much how I feel about things. Sometimes I’m a charming gent and sometimes I’m a bit gauche; instead pretending I’m one or the other, I just accept it because I’ve realized that there is no use in trying to disguise my knocks, by glove or any other means. In that vein, I am not going to disguise this as a design blog but rather a bunch of stories from a fellow in the field, sometimes designing things, sometimes telling other people what to design, wielding run on sentences like its my job and occasionally misusing punctuation.