Welcome!

I finally did it! I succumbed to the pressure and started a blog! I've been thinking about it for a year or so and, having weighed all benefits and detriments that came to mind, decided in the affirmative. 'Why now?' you may ask, 'why now after all this time?' Well, I'll tell you...

I have many thoughts. Too many to keep track of, really. Good or bad, generative or inhibiting, most of them stay in my head, undeveloped, unexplored, embryonic. A while back I became frustrated with the volume of thought I felt slipping from me and started keeping a sort of journal. In between the priest-black folds of a number of moleskine pocket journals I started probing, compounding and expanding (and yeah, occasionally inflating) whatever thoughts seemed worth recording. The purpose of this blog is to start letting some of those thoughts out of their cloister.

I take the name of the blog from (surprise, surprise) Thomas Pynchon's first novel V. 'The Whole Sick Crew' is a group of friends, associates and laze-a-bouts that share a common detachment from or incongruency with general society for their particular skills, attitudes and philosophies. As a movement, they are ineffectual, unmotivated, and spend much of the novel arguing or partying, often concurrently.

Simply put, I have invited you here because I consider you all part of my 'Whole Sick Crew.' The people I love to fruitlessly converse with about a whole gallery of irrelevancies. If you were ever curious about what bellows may be working my bloated head when you weren't there to act as pressure valve, then further reading may (or, more probably won't, but might be good for a laugh) be worth your while...