I haven’t made any great strides with this site, it really is more of a sounding board for my ADHD rattled ramblings, but it is given me a more focused opportunity to think critically and creatively. This isn’t to say that I am suddenly finding myself to be an Internet enabled renaissance man writing and creating important things, more like I am publishing the scribbles from my Trapper Keeper®.

I’m having fun with the new category, Cut-Copy-Paste, which I see as a sort of visual Haiku. I wanted to try and tell a story though as few words as possible, the post title, and through jumbled imagery. It got its start when I wanted to make a new banner and I had stumbled upon LILEKS’s The History of the Dorcus Collection. The assassin had too many opportunities to pass up and I loved the idea of pasting his calm black and white self into dynamic environments. So the banner was born with him striding out from an explosion like it is 1973 all over again.

The spirit of it wouldn’t let go and I started to think of his as a character with a story to tell; smooth, worldly, calculating, one who treats his lovers and enemies with the same deadly intent. The thrill of image appropriation swept me up as memories of the Xerox hooliganism of my youth steeled my resolve to create absurdity. So far, beyond the nameless main character, there is Donny, a wayward disco dilettante, and Blue Demon, a Mexican wrestler with a penchant for destruction; it should prove to be interesting to weave their stories together in ten words or less.

Beyond Cut-Copy-Paste, I’ve been toying with ways to post short stories here. I’d like to leverage the site as much as possible in giving myself a focused place to work my mind again. It is incredible how stiff one can become after a decade of writing only technical papers; I’ve been trying to pound my mind into something more supple and I’m thinking about just kiting some of my ideas through the site. Maybe criticism and ridicule, something that the Internet excels at, would help loosen me up a touch.