blogger interrupted

“In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.”

Barack Obama, January 8, 2008

When I started this blog over a year and a half ago, I had no idea where it would lead.  That road leads me today to a new venture at Plunderbund, where I will join Eric Vessels, Brian Hester (aka Modern Esquire), Joe Mismas, Brian Guilfoos, and the rest of a growing crew at what promises to be the most ass kickin’est blog in Ohio, ever.  Here’s my first post.

Why leave Blogger Interrupted behind?  I did need this place to myself – one of the problems at group blogs where I’d contribute was a constant danger of the blog morphing into the Tim Russo Experience.  It was always unfair to expect other bloggers to endure in their own space all that came with it.  That job was mine alone, and it needed to be done in a place of my own.

Well, this blog has done its job.  My past finally feels like the past.  This blog, as important as it’s been to me, is a part of that past, been that way for a while.  I once thought there’d be some big life changing moment when I knew for certain that I’d turned a corner, but it doesn’t work like that.  No applause, no big payday, no choirs of angels serenading a happy ending, no victory lap.  Redemption works like this – if you put your nose to the ground, and fight like hell, one day you just notice that, somehow it’s all…different.  Nose is still to the ground, but it’s now focused on my new social media consulting business, and other such mundane matters I once thought I’d never be a part of again.

This blog will stay up and visible for a few reasons, not least being that if anyone wants to know about me, they can get it straight from this horse’s mouth.  In addition, herein is documented a journey back from oblivion that I am quite certain has never remotely been travelled before by anyone – a kicking, scratching, and clawing at life, that isn’t just my story, it’s in some way all of ours.  There but for the grace of God go all of us.  You’ll never endure anything like it, that I promise you.  But on your journey back from your own mistakes, maybe you’ll find a little hope in the knowledge that no matter how bad it may get, you’ll find a way.  After all, I did.

You’ll be hearing from me plenty.  I’m still freelancing for the Independent, which is getting some great traction.  Still gonna blog hyper local at BLACKHEARTCleveland.  And from now on, the political blogger in me will reside at the new Plunderbund 2.0.  Eric’s been bangin’ on me to join Plunderbund forever, and I always made it clear that unless Brian Hester joined us, I’d just as soon stay at my own place.  If you’re gonna do a group blog, it ain’t beanbag.  It simply will not work unless you have a hard core of really tough bastards who know what they’re doing and cannot be played, bought, pressured, or seen to be holding back in the slightest.  We’ve got that core at Plunderbund.  And no blog in Ohio even comes close.  Not one.

Thanks to everyone who came on this journey with me.  Time for another one.  See you there.