First, allow me to apologize.  I am sorry.  I know this site is an entirely unnecessary and unwelcome addition to the ever swelling pile of crap that is the Internet.  I have nothing of any real value to add to the Internet, to blogging, to society, art, literature, etc. etc. etc.  I am not an expert, nor a guru, nor a particularly bright person.  You will learn nothing from me.

And yet, I still felt the need to put up a site dedicated to me and everything I only loosely understand and vaguely comprehend.  I fall into that category of content contributors who are collectively in desperate need of some kind of attention but who are not exactly sure why anyone would actually want to pay attention to them.  I have no idea why anyone would want to pay attention to me – and yet you’re reading this.

So, why do people read something like this?  Or rather, why would someone continue to read something like this?  Seriously, why haven’t you stopped yet?

Ok then.  You want to actually get some small bit of insight as to what this nonsense is all about (besides, that is, obviously, not making sense)?  Well, let me tell you a little story…

I started this website back in 1998 as an online gallery where I could post my artwork and tell my friends (both of them) to go and check it out.  Over time I expanded the galleries and changed the general look and feel of the site, but its basic purpose always remained constant.  I have used it as a way to advertise myself as a professional artist for hire, and as a storefront for selling prints of my work.  I even had Google Ads plastered all over it because I read in a spam email I could make $4,000 a day with Adsense.  I’ve learned a lot from spam emails over the years because the email addresses I posted on this site were incredibly powerful magnets for attracting all kinds of colorful spam.

Well, while I had once hoped to receive hundreds of emails from the adoring masses of my fanbase I can only recall having actually received three.  Of course there may have been more, but they were probably swept into the deleted items folder with the rest of the digital garbage.

Alas, after ten years, the site has been pretty much what 99% of all sites on the Internet are – a total failure.  So what to do with it now?  Close the doors and move on?  That would be sensible.  Completely against my nature and personality, but sensible.

Instead I’ve decided to just start dumping anything and everything that pops into my head into posts on this blog.  I’m keeping the gallery and will continue to add my latest work to it regularly.  Perhaps I’ll add some photographs.  I’ll add a short story or two – ah yes, I also write fiction.  It’s spectacularly bad fiction, but this site isn’t about spectacular, or quality or sense.  Or logic.  Or reason.  Or teaching you anything, because, again, I’m not an expert.  I do not lead an interesting life.

But, I am glad you came.  And kept reading.  Because Holy Hell is this poor little site unloved and neglected.  It needs any and all the attention it can get.