blink twice if you can hear me

I always seem to get in on new trends way late. I used to pretend that I was my own island of coolness and just too far ahead of the curve to be appreciated by the masses, but I have long abandoned that notion and given into the fact that I am just not with it. blogging is a perfect case in point. here I am, nearly half way into 2006, just now losing my web-log-virginity. there probably is already some new thing that the cool kids are all into these days, but here I am, jumping on the wagon days/months/years after the fact. but maybe that’s a good thing. maybe trends don’t really pass, but just weed out those who aren’t committed. either way, I still feel like I’m trapped in a never-ending game of catch-up.
looking at the archives of other urban honking blogs, it looks like most blogger’s first entries usually consist of either a very basic “test / is this thing working?” style entry, or a simple introduction of the blog or the blog writer: “hello, my name is (blank) and this blog will be about (blank) and (blank).”
I figure I’ll skip the whole self descriptive “welcome to my blog” entry, since I figure there is more than enough info about me on my website at www.rodeofilmco.com. And as far as what the theme of this blog is going to be, well, at this point I’m really not sure. I mean, it’ll be about a lot of things, but I am not setting out to do anything specific. I suppose it will be a receptacle for passing observations, spontaneous brainstorms, notes from the road, angry rants, and images captured by my camera.
I know that mining old content for a blog is sort of against the whole point of blogging, but when I took the following picture last fall while on tour in Europe, I distinctly remember thinking how I wish I had a blog to post it on. So with that I’d like to throw out a giant THANK YOU to Mike and the Urban Honking team for helping me put this together, and thank you for checking it out. hopefully something interesting will happen.