A couple of shots from the cell phone at the IU vs. Purdue game. IU won and seems to be headed to bowl for the first time since the HW Bush was President. Great game, I was totally obnoxious to some Purdue fans sitting behind me. It was all in good fun, but it is great to complete demoralize your rival. The last picture is the students rushing the field. Don't know if I believe in the afterlife, but if there is one, I know Coach Hep is smiling!

At the Bruce Concert a couple of weeks ago in Chicago, way up there...

MoMA

We recently returned from NYC. This is a picture from MoMA (Museum of Modern Art). More to come later...

I'm back and consolodating

I don't know what it is about this time of year that makes me want to post on a blog. I get antsy and my creative juices feel neglected, so I decided to try and fulfill them through online posting, it usually only last a few days, weeks whatever and I quit. I think I have the solution to at least make a concerted effort to blog. It consists of the following.

1) Get rid of Myspace and Facebook. I really am too old for these things and they become a obsession of gadgets and keeping tabs on people that I really don't care about. All I really want is a place to write when I feel like it, which leads us to number 2.

2) I am not going to concentrate on making this a window to my soul, tastes, etc, etc. I'm just going to write and posts some pictures. That's it. I will occasionally let you know what books I'm reading, music I am digging, TV I am watching, but don't expect fancy links and pictures of book covers. Too much work, too much time padiddling with crap that at the end of the day I don't give a shit about.

3) I will write something at all costs. If this is going to be a launching pad for more serious writing, I've got to get better. My writing sucks and while I am often inspired by other things I read (just finished Jonathan Lethem's Fortress of Solitude, excellent, excellent read) and I can sure as hell think my amazing writing in my head, when I set down to write, it sucks ass. So I have got to figure out how to fix that. Using only single syllable words is probably part of the problem, but what can I say, I'm a simple man.

4) I'm going to stop worrying about you. Yes, sorry, I'm done trying to write for imaginary people who read my blog. The question is, then why write a blog at all? It's here and I like to write and to tell the truth, the slight chance that others might read it still boosts my ego a little. The other little tidbit I discovered is that I enjoy going into the past and looking at what I have posted previously.

5) Pictures, pictures, pictures.

I think that is about it. So, if you are interested that I'm back, great! If no one but me reads this, so be it. I'm off to go delete my other online identities, wish me luck.