Well, we can draw....

[Welcome to my blog! If you watch a lot of movies, most of it should make sense. I tend to lapse into movie quotes, literary and pop culture references (or whatever the kids are into these days with the big pants and the walk-mans and the break dancing and the I-don't-know-what). If I seem to jump around from one topic to another, it's because I'm making it up as I go along, and I advise you to approach life in the same fashion. And besides, I wasn't at the computer the whole time. Read a book! But he to-day that watches old tapes of Mystery Science Theater with me, shall be my brother, be he ne'er so vile,....]

When job hunting, you may be advised to fit in, to find out what is available and say "I can do that, too." But when starting a business, you are better off defining what makes you different -- what do you offer that the others don't? After exchanging a few sidelong glances with my fellow citizens of Santa Poco, I was ready to offer, "We can sew!" But then it became clear: WE CAN DRAW!

That is what this business of mine will offer that a graphic designer may not: I can draw and paint. So I can enjoy working WITH graphic designers and marketers and web developers. And I hope that this will become a useful forum for creative, um, stuff (as soon as I learn how to work the blogger thinger better).

Go For It! (-- I mean, I can always take this down later, right?)

My first blog entry! It seems so "committal;" maybe I should stay to the message boards, and the comfortable anonymity of screen names like Torgo and Guy Habanero. No, I'm definitely going to do this -- if that's okay.

I first want to acknowledge the writer who has most inspired me lately:
John Stanko. His blog is at http://www.johnstanko.us/
and it will be a permanent link elsewhere on this page,
once I get around to customizing it.

Then another, less contemporary guy named Melville:
"...But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God -- so, better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety!"

[If you have no need for functioning eyesight, you can read Moby Dick online at, among other places, http://www.electronpress.com/freebooks2/moby_dick.pdf
(Chapter 23 -- The Lee Shore)]

The adventure begins....