Holy crap in a handcart, has it really been this long since I dropped out of active dA duty? Gods, I feel like such a wretched slacker...

Well, for those who were wondering (and for those who might actually remember me ), just a little heads up to let you know that yes, indeed, I still exist. Nothing rash has occurred, as you may remember the whole wife up and leaving me thing. I'm sure this may come as a disappointment to some out there, but I intend to go on breathing for quite some time to come, thank you for playing.

But a word or two of explanation as to my whereabouts is in order, I think.

This has been, obviously, the strangest of thirty-eight summers I've ever experienced, and in light of some of the others, that's sayin' a bit. Yes, indeedy, I've recovered quite well from the split, thank you much. My own viewpoints on life and love have been altered accordingly, but very fucking far from abandoned altogether. Likewise, my views on what I, as an artist and a poet, have done, am doing, and hope to do in the future, have been updated as well. While I, like everyone, have some things I've done that I'm happy with, there are others that I would like to be able to pin on a bottle of scotch and skip the blame for altogether. Not the healthiest of attitudes, I know. So, in light of that realization, I fully accept responsibility for everything I write/draw/paint/photograph/sneeze on, be it art or be it poop. There are things I want to try my hand at, so if my next deviations are off the norm for me, I've finally hit my experimental phase. LSD will be freely handed out to those who request it, all others are welcome to their own Prozac.

So, it comes down to a massive apology from me to you, my long-lost pals of the dAsphere, who I feel that I've totally let down. I wasn't here to hear your personal struggles or share in your victories, and what the hell kinda friend does that, eh? Yes, I know, I was dealin with my own personal shit, as well, but that still is just a lame cop-out. You guys deserve far better than that, and I wanna be the kinda pal who doesn't bail when his own shit comes back to roost (sorry for the horribly mixed metaphors, as well).

But, I'm comin' back. Slowly, as time is still a huge factor in things, as always, but with a new attitude and a new perspective on things. My muse is intact, new inspiration has been found, and, while happiness still feels like an alien concept to me, it still seeps into things in ever-increasing doses. Not to say the darkness has left; I doubt that, after thirty-eight years, I'll ever be without it, but a balance is being restored, and for us Libras, that's what it's all about, y'dig?

Now, as I'll be deleting the nearly 4000 deviations that are crowding their way out of my inbox, I'll be visiting everyone instead, seeing what you've been up to lately, re-establishing contact, gettin' to re-know you guys again.

And to kick things off, I've got a little surprise for youse. Right before I disappeared, the ever-awesome and totally amazing had a fun little contest where she sent out Easter eggs to twelve volunteers to hide around the internet. I was one of those volunteers. Then I stopped existing, by and large, on the www, and her egg went unhidden. Until now, that is. During the next week, Imma take that egg, and secrete it somewhere for you happy people to find. Don't worry, I'll fill in the blanks as I go, but I find a certain satisfaction in finishing up somethin that basically celebrates Spring and throwing it into the biggest, paganest Autumn holiday there is (I fucking LOVE Halloween!).

And there will be new stuff coming up from yours truly. So, if anyone wants to stop by and say hi, and swap stories on what we've been up to in the last half-year, feel free. I'm settin up shop again, and I plan on bein here for a long, long time to come.

Peace and a bottle of hair grease!
Out!!!

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