26 February 2026

Twenty years ago, I wrote a blog that, like many others of the early aughties, was initially less concerned with form or topic than with expression, but which was eventually dominated by culture reviews and accounts of shows I’d seen, the latter overwhelmingly from the music scene in Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti. I ran out of juice in the early teens and stopped writing, but even after my pivot to visual art, I kept having mental scribbles that eventually crept into my creative-focused posts for The Avocado (a pop-culture-centric site written and largely populated by former and occasionally current commenters from The A.V. Club). While I, like many others, have long bemoaned the lack of independent voices in online or physical media (whether in culture, politics, or anywhere else), I was convinced I didn’t have it in me to meaningfully challenge the situation, not least based on past experience.

This is still probably true, but after writing a bio for this site that came real close to being pro forma after I hived off a bunch of tangential discussions and diatribes, I came to the conclusion that I ought to include some of the latter hereon as they shed a little light on some of my influences, preoccupations, procedures and goals for whoever’s interested. So every now and again, I plan to post a few thoughts in this space, whether on my own art practice or wider related topics that concern me or my work. While I’m not sure if I’ll keep this in blog form or split these into general standing posts, I’ll keep to a periodic release for now, not least as I’d love to see more discussion on various artistic topics; Evidence from the aforementioned threads and elsewhere suggests at least a latent appetite for an exchange of ideas not licensed by a large existing forum (Reddit, Instagram, etc.). If there’s already one out there, please let me know!! Either way, I’ll be posting again in a few days (probably Monday) and I’ll see how this goes.