I’ve wanted to do a blog for a long time, but for one reason or another
I always came up with an excuse not to do one. First it was time, then it was
lack of a name, then it was the fact that I’m just not that interesting. Finally on Saturday, I decided to quit putting it off for stupid
reasons (no matter how valid they are) and pull the trigger. Thus I introduce
to you the latest weapon in the Herschelman journalistic arsenal - my blog, Dead
Center (don’t ask why it has taken me so long to post the first one).
Right now, the plan is to update at least once a week with whatever is
floating around my head. I’m still hoping to churn out Center & Guard columns
for the paper (although it’s been way to long since one has made the paper),
but I’m hoping this can be an outlet for some of the things floating through my
head that are either too short, too long or too out of leftfield for
publication in a highly respectable newspaper like The Journal-News.
I had kind of tried this once before with Center & Guard On-Line
but the hassle of having to be in the office to update quickly zapped my
enthusiasm for the project. Hopefully, that doesn’t happen this time. I go into this knowing that my audience will most likely consist of a
handful of people that want to see me succeed (mostly friends and family) and a
handful of people that want to see me crash and burn (mostly friends and
family).
With that said, I’m really looking forward to a new opportunity to
write creatively. Even if I am just basically talking to myself, it’ll be nice
to show the Grace Monster some day, if for no other reason than to show her
that her daddy’s incessant ramblings aren’t just made in the living room, but
also on the world wide web.
