Rant & Update

The target audience has not been served, no immediate solution is available, and so I rant.

It is with a somber defeat I must post the news update for the longest web comic that is no more, located here. "8-bit Theater" admittedly throws in the towel. This is simply tragic and unfair to the long-term readers, and it leaves me with an extra moment of my own time that I would not have chosen to liberate quite so easily! I am unable to profess of richness and wealth in my auto-usurped moment of comic-strip-less glory. Does this Brian Clevinger have no protégé, no backup plan?

In recent, similar, but more serious news, I've discovered being an artist is a way of life and not just a cultivated talent. Hailing my thoughts back to my younger years and wondering what exactly the nonsensical choices I had made fostered from, I realized, as if it shouldn't have already been obvious, that I am, in fact, an artist. It is my own unfortunate accident, as I unknowingly fed the starving artist in me by creating poetry of the what's, why's and how's I could not understand. Oh, now I understand, but I warn all the rest of you about feeding any tidbits to your subconscious in the determined hopes of developing art, art that attempts to reach beyond and inspire others from behind their own eyes, in their own stratum, that the change of one's own perceptual psyche while remaining steadfastly true to the self can be a difficult experience. And, yes, I wrote a tremendous deal of poetry over the years and still continue to this day but I feel it has too much emotional impact on the subject to be gifted to them directly. Is a gift still a gift anymore?! Telling me to stop would be like telling the old fisherman to put his trade away forever. Now that I've mentioned it, I don't think I could give fishing up either.

In an even more enjoyable update, I am about to graduate from Suffolk University with my BSBA. I was just awarded Dean's List honors, meaning the extra time I've put into my schoolwork has had the best effect possible. Tomorrow is my last class with a final paper to be emailed afterward as the conclusion. I will not be attending ceremonies but I want to thank everyone who has been there for me in a positive way during my undergraduate years. Thank you.

I plan to further my education for a Master's and a Doctorate and possibly more in the years to come.