No one has said this to me yet, but they probably should have.
Who I am/what this is: I adopted jackal59 as my IRC nickname in about 1998 or thereabouts. The first part of the name is an unflattering but accurate reference to my personality. The second is a date.
I am a gay man who lives in the Midwest and has been partnered for close to three decades.
I have a job in which, among other things, I write for a living. That writing is tedious, exacting, anxious, and, in the end, useful. I have decided to use this blog for writing that is freer, looser, and trivial. It's also a venue where I can without restraint do such things as talk about how much people and events infuriate me. I suspect that will happen a lot. I also can muse here about religion and sexuality, community, futurism, pessimism, and whatever else I don't normally get to share because, really, who the fuck talks about such things with their coworkers and my partner has heard it all too many times before. I suspect that will happen a lot as well.
