onlyoblivion

If change were an animal, it would almost certainly possess the herd instinct. I envision it as a large, sleek thing, usually docile and content to perturb only the green scenery itself, but easily roused, capable of stampeding through villages with enough combined force to collapse all but the sturdiest thatched roof, unremorseful when it crushes the fragile body of the unsuspecting safarist. Perhaps, after a quarter-century of slow-if-at-all change, something this momentous was inevitable, but someone seems to have wandered into my psychic veldt firing off a shotgun at intervals - change is coming for me with manifold and irresistible force.

I was prepared to be terrified and hopelessly depressed today, as many people might say that I have only five more years of relevancy left (and that Ive utterly wasted my previous five), but instead I find myself too consumed with packing up my life, preparing for an interview in a mystical land (this so-called Caliphorn Iah), and potentially putting down roots there to do exactly what Im qualified to do for what is easily the hippest network on television. Id be very pleased to say that I spent exactly 25 years in accursed Ohio, but more than a sense of escape Im excited to report a sense of real emergence, that perhaps for the first time in my life I might be heading toward something more than mere existence, that perhaps this is my time to really live.

I deeply appreciate each of you and the sense of community that SG has thus far afforded me, and I look forward to our deepening relationship. Once I know for certain if this rare glimpse of hope is to coalesce into a glorious new experience or simply reveal itself as another cruel mirage, Ill be sure to let you all know. Either way, Im off on a grand adventure! Ciao!