Coming Soon: An Essay Project

Admittedly, getting back into blogging will be difficult with what has legitimately been my first vacation, and I had appropriately chosen NYC as the setting.  I could not have picked a better city to completely rewire my brain, especially since said brain had been experiencing some fried circuits lately.

To get things started up again I would like to shout back into the series of tubes known as the interwebs that, yes, I’m still around, and maybe some of you will hear it.

Hello again, web tubes.

I’ve been having a blast visiting my old roommate, Lucas.  And I’d say “It’s just like old times” but the truth is it’s not like old times - instead, it’s completely new times with recurring characters.

Of course, I plan to elaborate more on this with a set of essays detailing what I did here on the East Coast.  I will also note the effects those events had on my understanding of things since this is a personal blog and not a travel guide.  “Good pizza here” and “great dancing there” and “awesome bands at this place” and “interesting X, Y, Z” is only scratching the surface, and really the trip was a lot more profound than that.

To give you an idea of what has just happened to me, I have been thrust head-long into the Brooklyn underground art scene as a test of whether I would survive or not.

And did I survive?

What I can tell you is if I have a daughter some years from now, I may name her Brooklyn.

I’m coming up on my final hours in this trip.  My bags are nearly packed, and since my flight is early I decided to pull an all-nighter.  I wonder what kind of person I will become when I get back to LA.  I hope I change for the better.

And yes, there are pictures.  I promise.