I have published 529 posts on this blog.
Absurd.
I started the Distal Muse as part of an effort toward self-promotion, an effort that has in some ways failed. But in the years since it was first established (I think it’s first incarnation, as part of a ridiculously complicated site, was 2003) I’ve used it to hone a skill—the short essay—and indulge whims that I frankly have little interest in trying out professionally. After that original site was replaced by the current one, in 2006 or ’07, I started using it for all sorts of things, including putting up original art.…