I don’t suppose there’s any getting around it, now that Tom has fixed all the little site bugs (thank you, sir).

Welcome to The Bellows, internets.

This is not my first foray into personal online publishing, but it is my first go at it since becoming involved with DCist, where folks occasionally read what I wrote, forcing me to control the urge to erupt into unhinged partisan diatribes, as I often did in earlier Bellows incarnations. We’ll try to stick with that, here.

I can’t tell you what this will all be about, though, as I really don’t know myself. Maybe personal stuff. In the past few months, I’ve become engaged, gotten married, and decided to move to London (with the wife), leaving my job and the house I just bought, so you’d think I had a lot to work with here, but don’t be surprised if, instead, this blog becomes the online locus for writing on the consumption decisions of 19th century textile workers (can be summed up neatly as beer v. potatoes).

Off we go, readers. Wish us luck.