If you check this site everyday with anticipation in the hopes of reading my latest impassioned ramblings (and judging from my site stats I don’t think you do), allow me to offer a word of warning: this is not a blog. I won’t be posting random pictures of babies or pets (I currently don’t have either), nor will I be providing extensive photographic evidence of what I ate for dinner last night. Likewise, it is highly improbable that I’ll be adding my worthless two cents to well-worn arguments already circulating the internet. And needless to say I shall not be weighing in on the plight of the Kardashians in an attempt to boost my “Googliciousness”. If you came looking for any of those things prepare to be routinely disappointed.

If you’ve made it this far you’ll be glad to know that I prefer to use the written portion of this website to write about the things that interest me, as presented by the categories at the top of the page. I would hesitate to call myself an authority on any of these subjects, but I believe my experience and enthusiasm have afforded me a degree of genuine perspective from which to express myself.

Some of this stuff is knocked out fairly quickly and never thought about again. Other times a story is honed and tweaked for days on end until I finally feel I can put it — and myself — to bed. While most articles are relatively recent, others pieces have been dusted off and lovingly restored to their former splendor (in the cases that there was any there to begin with). I still have a lot more work (in various states of completion) that I hope to post soon plus plenty more new ideas so stay tuned…

They used to always say, “Write about what you know.” So if you came here looking for my explanation of Greece’s debt crisis or the Mets’ stolen base percentage allow me to be the first to apologize. If on the other hand you came here to read a relatively young man’s personal journey through an egg cream wonderland or the infinite virtues of pink newsprint I hope you enjoy what you find. Thanks for reading!

James Campbell Taylor
New York, August 2011