Oct 212004
For every writer on this planet (and I’m not even talking about the ones who get published, but everyone who actually writes on a regular basis), there must be dozens of would-be writers trying to "get to it" but never seem to find the time.
I should know- I’m in the latter category, trying to move into the former.
So here is my latest attempt to write regularly- this blog that appears before you.
I will try to write here on lunch hours, or whenever I can find the time. I’m bringing a lunch most days, thanks to the efforts of
my lovely wife Debbie. This not only saves on costs of my buying a lunch everyday, but also helps to keep me out of the CD stores and at my desk.Most of my writing will focus on music, but I’m already allowing myself room to ramble in whatever direction I please on any given day. I wouldn’t be surprised if I talk about food a fair amount, as I enjoy it a great deal- and after all, I will be writing mostly over lunch…
So let me get started- in the meantime, please enjoy some of the writing I’ve done in the past:
- The Timmy Awards- the self-proclaimed "one man’s answer to the Grammys." This page was actually featured in the Chicago Tribune in the Spring of 2004. Oddly enough, it was an article on blogs. It isn’t a blog, as the Tribune writer pointed out, but she met my sister the weekend before, and Eileen was kind enough to talk up the site.
- McSweeney’s Internet Tendency- in which yours truly is published in the web version of the great McSweeney’s Quarterly, the magazine that looks (and costs) like a book but eats like a meal. I appear on the Reviews of New Food page with my take on Altoids Apple Sours. If you use the find function of your browser and type in Altoids, by golly, you’ll jump right to it.