Willkommen
A weblog is a lifelong committment. I tend to take my time when making lifelong committments (just ask my wife).
And so it is that, after close to a year of waiting, debating, conflating and procrastinating, I can finally say these words:
Welcome to Things as They Are.?
Or should I say Thank You for welcoming me. It occurred to me during the past 11 months or so while I sat on the code for this site, that I'm not really in any position to welcome anyone at all. Rather, this weblog is more or less a way
for me to be welcomed into a larger community of transfer, collaboration, contact. Sure, you can silently visit
Things as They Are.?, but it only really lives with your contributions. I offer no justification ala
jeblog for my existence. I can only offer my thoughts on media, life and the-in-between in the hope that they can spin themselves into something more when mingled with the hum of electric air.
Things as They Are.? intends, quite pretentiously I think, to be all things at once: a place where jpeg, mpeg, mp3, mpc, Arial, Garamond, WingDings, cuneiform,
dual-shock analog,
8-bit digital, paper, pen, pencil, clay and stick all come together to form gleeful concussions of our mediated life. There's still much to be done here, many browsers to be satisfied and many font colors to be retouched (suggestions?). But, for now, let's begin shall we?
And a mental tenner goes to those who know what the title of my blog references (HINT: It's a combination of two different books).
Special thanks goes to Matt K. and Jason Rhody for all of their help and prodding. Eternal trackbacks, gentlemen, eternal trackbacks....
Posted by marcusrp at October 20, 2004 4:15 PM
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