My name is Brandon. Once upon a time, I ran a website called bearseatpeople.com. Well, I guess I technically still do, but that site is a dinosaur and has long since been relegated to internet purgatory (aka Tumblr), where it will remain for-ev-er. BEP was a fun little site for a lot of years (that actually got really decent traffic for a while there, even if a bunch of that was actually driven by Brokencyde (who?) fangirls that took great offense to some of the colorful things I had to say about their terrible favorite band and visited my site in DROVES to tell me exactly what I could do with my opinion) and was a great outlet where I could write about the one thing I loved more than just about anything else – music.  I had some good pals who contributed, I posted a best of and/or a top ten list for just about everything I could think of and it was just..fun. Eventually though, as fun things are wont to do, running that website just became a chore. A burden that I just had little to no desire to deal with on the regular anymore. 

Around the same time that BEP was in it's heyday, I had decided that I, like every angsty 20-something, wanted to write a book. It was going to be a fantastic book (and still might be?) – the semi-fictional autobiography of a man who was terrified of being forgotten – but it, too, became a burden. For me as a writer, there really isn't anything more stifling to my creativity than when the writing starts to feel like a laborious pain in the ass. Well, that and happiness. I write much better in depressed conditions. If I could consistently be in the midst of a post-breakup funk while also being unsatisfied with life/work/living conditions and listening to Adagio For Strings on repeat, I'd be set.

The point is, I had a few different outlets and a few different grand ideas, but I lost my motivation. Hell, maybe it's still missing, but like the old saying goes, "there's nothing like buying a new domain name to get the creative juices flowing again". Isn't that a quote from On The Road or Dubliners or something? I forget the exact source, but it's still every bit as powerful today as it was when it was first conceived by...that one author...and it's my inspiration for starting anew!

So, all that to say that this is my new website, Shapes In The Sky. It's not a website about UFOs. Or the formation of clouds. Or a site geared towards preschool kids who want to learn about circles and squares. Instead, it's a place (with a name I thought was kinda cool) for me (and maybe a friend or two) to write about..stuff. It's not about web-traffic & SEO, it's not about pleasing/knowing/or even HAVING an audience. It's about trying to make writing fun again. Sure hope it works!