Following a particularly “eventful” 2006, Atherton Bartelby decided that he needed some new beginnings, some proverbial “fresh starts,” in both his personal and online lives. He had previously maintained an online journal, since March 2003, on the servers of another popular blogging service. However, the emotional landscape of his life at the beginning of 2007 became such that it demanded the change of blogging platforms, and the establishment of an entirely new, different online space to house his writing, graphic design, amateur photography, and life in general.

This blog, “The Curious Affairs of Atherton Bartelby,” is that space. However, since Atherton has many personal, borderline-neurotic issues with keeping everything in one place (only one of numerous and deeply complex sets of issues that he discusses, twice monthly, with his understandably beleaguered therapist), he will, over time, be migrating all of his past writing to this space. As the general content and tone of his previous writing will read markedly differently from his writing from this point forward, it seems prudent to make the distinction that “Curious Affairs” was established on January 22, 2007, and that its first entry was written and published on January 23, 2007. All content that appears in the blog’s archive prior to these dates was written and published in Atherton’s previous blog, under a different moniker.

As per usual with new projects of such a creative nature, Atherton is hopeful that this new space will eventually become a collection of work of which he is significantly proud, and welcomes any readers who may be reading and wish to comment to do so.

The title of the blog was inspired by a dream experienced by Atherton in October 2006, about which curious readers may read here. The blog’s graphic banner is a photograph taken by Atherton himself, on a chilly and gray late winter afternoon in early 2007, of several Shepard Fairey prints of a not insignificant nature, hanging on several store-fronts along Hotel Street in Downtown Honolulu’s Chinatown. The banner type is set in Anivers Regular, an OpenType typeface designed by exljbris, available (along with a few other truly stunning type families) as a free download via the designer’s website.

“Curious Affairs” is proudly listed in the “Life“, “Men“, and “GLBT” topics in Alltop.com (the “digital magazine rack” of the Internet), a collection of stories from “all the top” sites on the web.

And that, as they say, is the story behind “The Curious Affairs of Atherton Bartelby.”