It’s like a whole new world.
I’m sure there’s some sort of metaphor that more maudlin writers would make of me closing one text file that represented my last post on the MARTINI SHAKER and opening this file to write the first post for the reimagining of this site, but I’m not one of those writers. At least not today.
For those of you who have been exclusively with me through Tumblr, the MARTINI SHAKER was a blog that I’ve maintained over the past six years that I finally made the hard decision to put to pasture. It seemed to me that I was fragmenting myself too much by trying to present myself as one person on that site and as another here. Especially when this site is much truer to who I am on any given day.
So, I’m not really starting fresh as much as I am shedding cruft in the pursuit of becoming a leaner, meaner creative machine. Now with more fart jokes.
Welcome RSS subscribers from the old site. I know in a way it seems like I’ve pulled the old bait and switch on you, but not really. You’re still going to get what you were getting before, but in a less filtered fashion. And, you know, that’s the beauty of RSS. You can pick just the posts you want to read and ignore the rest. I think things will continue to work out well for you.
Things are certainly going to work out well for me. I feel freer that I’ve felt in a while. It’s dumb that shutting down a blog should do that to a person, but when your wiring is fucked up in the super-specific way mine appears to be, it apparently does.
Hi!
