introductions are in order

blog, meet ben.  ben, meet blog.  it's been awhile.  welcome back to the internet of opinions.

i had a lot of feelings this summer.  most of these feelings were had driving from pullman to canton to kent to nashville to canton to cambridge to sharon to kent to canton to pullman.  7000 more miles to my name.

i'm sort of implying through my tense use above that my summer is over.  not nearly; however, the part where i drive around in a car and do fucking awesome things is likely over.  and that's not necessarily a bad thing, because as usual, all the travelling was a great experience and gave me some always-necessary and valuable perspective on life that's just not possible to get when you're always in the same place, doing the same thing, even if that place is pullman (awesome!) and that thing is teaching and playing music at bars and eating thai food and having great friends (awesome!).

there have been so many great and noteworthy moments in the last month or two that to do my usual picture-posting-storytelling-thing would result in my absolutely leaving 95% of the coolness out.  so i won't.  in related news, as i've no doubt mentioned before, i now share almost all of my articles, photos, and videos and such via facebook.  i know it's not everyone's favorite platform, but the fact is that almost all my real-life friends are on there and i have the fuck-yeah-tastic shareaholic plugin for chrome which lets me share with everyone in one click.  so friend me if you haven't already, because facebook's going to be where the action is.  this blog is just going to be where the rambling, semi-coherent madness is.

and on that note, bye for five seconds!