Just look at it! Isn’t it beautiful? This is the picture I saw in the Radio Shack blog-machine catalog, and I just can’t wait to see the real thing. I’m told it will be TWICE as fast as the old blog (meaning: this one) and the stories will be … well, they’ll be about the same mediocre quality. No device in the world can fix that. I blame the demon rum.
Did I want to move? Oh, absolutely not. We Lauderdales are set in our ways. But … well, something happened, and you probably heard about it, and I guess it’s my fault.
Actually, I feel kind of bad about the whole situation, to be quite honest with you. Every time I’d write something for Memphis magazine, my editors would say, “Good God, Vance, can’t you just get to the point?” (Let me just way that when you are paid by the word — and not paid very much, at that — the answer is: NO.)
And then, when I’d post something on the blog, the tech-folks here would whine, “Vance, you’re using up way too much band-width and giga-bytes and mega-hertz” and all sorts of mumbo-jumbo that I didn’t pretend to understand. It didn’t seem to be my problem, to tell you the truth.
But I certainly got a sense that everyone thought I was wasting valuable space with my ramblings, musings, dronings, and general … uh, wait I lost track. Oh, right. The Inter-Net thing.
So how was I to know that this Inter-Net would one day fill up completely — thanks to me? That’s what they told me, anyway: “The Inter-Net is full, Vance. We hope you’re happy.”
Well, not really. So I had a choice: just stop writing entirely — which was what they actually thought would be best. “Please, Vance, think of the children!” they’d beg me. Or (and this is the alternative I chose), I’d have to move to a brand-new blog and get all sorts of fancy new equipment — some of it costing dozens of dollars!
So that’s what I’m doing. Don’t worry, it will still be called “Ask Vance” and it will still be penned, or typed, or dictated, by Yours Truly. But it does have a brand-new blog address, so go HERE, and then bookmark it, or “favorite” it, or “friend” it, or “follow” it, or dang it all, just write it down on your shirt sleeve, I don’t care.
Now let me make it clear the the new website is still a “work in progress” so bear with us while we work out the kinks. I just wanted to tell you where to find me, that’s all.
Now you can still come back here from time to time, if you haven’t gotten your fill of the entries I’ve posted on my beloved “old” blog. But in the future, if you really want to read about new things. Well, I mean old things, but with new words, go to the new address. Got it?
I really can’t make it any easier for you. Again, it’s: www.memphismagazine.com/Blogs/Ask-Vance
(The only difference is that oh-so-critical hyphen between “Ask” and “Vance.”
See you soon at my new home!
Vance
