I never thought I’d start a blog.  A year, even months ago, had you so much as suggested the idea to me, I’d have scoffed.

Me?  A blog?  Please.  That’s for other people.  Blog people.

Blog people are different from the rest of us.  They live in public.  They thrive on the perceived attention of anonymous strangers.  To a blog person, the minutiae of his or her own day-to-day existence carries all the weight and meaning of a classic work of Russian literature.  No fleeting thought is too inconsequential, no opinion too banal, that it doesn’t merit its own space in the great series of tubes that is the internet.  Not to a blog person.

It’s not that I thought I was above it or anything.  I know several blog people, and count them among my friends.  I even envied them in a way, with their carefree disregard for conventional attitudes of propriety and discretion.  It’s just that… That’s not me.  I don’t need to behave that way.  I’m not like those people.

Okay, well, I guess I sort of thought I was above it.  But in a nice way?

Still, the more I thought about it, the less distasteful the idea gradually grew.  After all, I didn’t have to have one of those blogs.  Just because I had a personal forum on the internet, didn’t mean it had to be the same kind of repository for overexposed viral videos and pithy pop cultural observations that had become the norm over the years.  My blog could be different.  Smarter.  Better.

In fact, you know what?  I deserve a blog.  Hell, the world needs me to have a blog.

So, here it is.  Primarily, this will serve as an online portfolio of artwork and graphic design projects.  Additionally, you can expect updates about shows I’m doing and other stuff I may have in the works.  From time to time, I’ll post the occasional short story or poem, or essay on whatever topic may strike my fancy.

But to you, the reader, I pledge the following: I will not overshare.  I will not merely reblog content from other blogs without commentary or some kind of original accompanying material.  Because you deserve better than that.  We all deserve better.

And I will do my best to maintain a respectable standard of thought put into each and every post, to set this space apart from your average, “blog persony” blog.

Besides, it’s actually a Tumblr, which is supposedly different somehow.

Thank you for reading, and may God have mercy on us all.

Yours, both spiritually and corporeally,
Hobart