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Saturday, October 16, 2004

As a member in good standing of CaliBlog for the better part of this last year I've come to enjoy the interaction between ourselves and the people who grace our site with their presence. It was something that took a little coaxing to get me involved with in the first place (mostly by a very persistent Mike), but it's really become an amazing fixture in my life. For those of you out there who know me, I'm not the most open person in the world with my thoughts. The experience has been nothing but cathartic. I guess there's a certain feeling of anonymity to expressing yourself to a faceless audience that allows you to alleviate a certain level of vulnerability (you should read some of the things that ALMOST made it to the site). From the beginning, I had planned on doing a lot of my own things on CaliBlog. A plan that never seemed to quite reach fruition, with no one at fault but myself. Chuck and I had talked on a few occasions about starting a second site, a site that was nothing more than simply a fun, crazy site. From that point on I knew I wanted to start a separate site from what we were doing as a collective, I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do. Soon after, Mike started Pedal Project (Proj: Pedal) to promote and inform people about his soon-to-come documentary and Chuck had left CaliBlog, altogether. Not long after that, I hit my 6 month marker for being in California and I wasn't very happy with MANY things about that subject, to the point where I had come to a decision that it was time for me to pack up and head back to the Great Lakes State and get on with my life, as it were. Generic City is, by way of a very obscure, twisting, almost inexplicable road, the result of the conversations and deliberations that came from said dilemma. I guess the easiest way to explain it is simply that I'm putting myself on the spot. Whatever happens here is all me. I'm not relying on my friends to fill in the dead air if I don't do something. It's my own personal motivational tool, without cluttering up CaliBlog with a lot of the things that I may feel like doing. So, that's about it in a nutshell (I guess I didn't really have to explain myself, but whatever...we're all friends here, right?). I hope that everybody enjoys themselves here and I'll see you back home at Caliblog. But, please be patient, it IS a work in progress...for now, welcome to me.

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