Sorry not to have blogged here in weeks. The irony of journals is that when truly interesting things happen your life, you often don’t have time to write them down. I’ll try to catch up.

Some recent events have already impacted on this page. The New Haven Advocate, for whom I worked full-time for 17 years and for whom I’ve freelanced for nearly four, has asked me to post articles to the website on a regular basis. This means CD and book reviews and New Haven community commentary, all things I’ve relegated to this site lately.

The Daily Nutmeg remains a steady gig, and immensely rewarding. It reconnects me with the ins and outs of New Haven culture, and has found a loyal and encouraging readership. If you do not already subscribe to its free daily email, please do.

My New Haven Theater Jerk site will continue. It has a life of its own. I’ve justed posted a dozen or so reviews and such from the Humana Festival in Louisville, Kentucky.

I’ve also been meaning to take up the kind offers of a couple of other New Haven-centric sites to write for them.

I’ll try to provide links here to articles and reviews by me that end up elsewhere.

Elsewhere in my busy existence, I was elected Ward 2 co-chair of the New Haven Democratic Town Committee. I don’t consider myself an aggressively social person, but the campaign led me to meet literally hundreds of people. I now travel not only in New Haven arts and media circles but the political and Dwight-Edgewood neighborhood ones as well. I am wearing out shoes at a frantic pace.

Scribblers.us has been a great release for me (my tombstone is likely to say “Happiest When Writing”–after family, it’s my greatest spiritual fulfillment). I’m not giving it up. I’ll simply switch to discussing topics I don’t have a steady outlet for. That means Archie comics, silent movies, comic strips, ukuleles and cooking, for starters. I also want to keep doing Rock Gods and Diary of a College Chum until I get them right.

I prefer to blog on Scribblers in chunks of several disparate items at a time. That habit is one I choose not to break. I realize that in the new media, readers simply hone in on what they need and overlook the rest. Those of us who’ve spent lifetimes learning how to balance the contents of a periodical have no purpose anymore. Yet, personally, I dig the variety and the discipline of not posting until all my items are in a row. I’ll try to do it as often as possible, (re)starting today. See you at www.scribblers.us