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June 17th, 2012

Notice: This Is A Life Blog…

I’ve been very graciously linked to recently by a couple folks, including Fred Clark whose readership I must assume is every bit as decent and good hearted as he is. So for the sake of those just tuning in, and especially after that last post, I feel should explain something.

You may have noticed things are a bit odd around here.   Hi…my name is Bruce Garrett.   This is my place.   It’s odd because I am.

I started blogging back before blogging really took off, years ago in the late 1990s when I read about someone who was just basically posting their diaries online as a kind of living art project. I thought that was kinda cool and started doing it myself.   I wasn’t about getting attention.   If you have the art gene in you too then you understand. Mostly, I do graphic art…imagery.   Try the cartoon and photo galleries sometime.   But sometimes I try to write.

I started blogging back in 1998, although this blog’s archives only go back to 2002.   Before then it was just a random note here and there on what was nominally my cartoon and photography web site, hosted by the company I had my email account on.   Then in late 2001 a friend showed me how to get my own domain started up and offered to host me.   Once again the site was mostly about my political cartoons and my photography, with the blog being an extra…a place I could write about this and that.   The blog, like everything else about the site back then (and mostly still now) was hand rolled. I was earning a good living then as a software developer and I just typed my own HTML into my programmer’s editor and uploaded it. It wasn’t until my original domain host retired and I had to move the site elsewhere that I was talked into switching the blog software over to WordPress. Even so, most of the rest of the site, like my household computers (apart from the Macs), is hand built.

Of course, being the times we live in, the blog started capturing my feelings about political issues and in particular the gay rights struggle.   But this is not actually a political blog.   It is not a blog about gay rights specifically, or religion or philosophy or economics.   It is not about my opinions on anything.   I am not doing punditry. I only vent a lot about politics here because it’s more satisfying then yelling at the TV.   But that’s not what this blog is.   It’s a life blog.   Basically just random bits and pieces of one guy’s life as he lives it, like an always changing collage. It’s The Story So Far

If it seems confusing at times, that’s normal.   I’m confusing.   Just ask anyone who knows me.   Especially the certain someone whose regrettably thin skin I’ve been poking with that Llama.   Or maybe you shouldn’t ask him.   No…don’t ask him…

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