Hot Gun Spy, Signing Off

This post is the official last post on the Hot Gun Spy blog.

I have been struggling with this decision for several months now. It was a difficult decidion for me to make. I had felt vindicated by the e-mail I had received from artists thanking me for posting their work, but I found that the blog had begun to eat away the time I traditionally spent with other, more rewarding projects.
Since, I have had some time away from the blog, I can see more clearly the time it took from my day. I used to spend 2-3 hours a day online while maintaining this blog. Now, I spend about half an hour.

Also, after several months of posting multiple entires per day, I never really had the visitors that would make that kind of effort worth my time. I was really keeping the blog going for about a dozen people, and many of them would just happen onto the site through an irrelevent search on Google.

Afterall, blogging for me was just a way to consolidate my surfing into one site for like-minded individuals. Most of my posts have been politically motivated. It was politics that originally got me involved in the blogosphere. The problem is that I no longer want to contribute to the echo chamber of liberal politics. Certainly, the liberals had to become as morally toxic as the conservatives in order to compete in our current political landscape. But the level of toxicity intrinsic in both parties disgusts me.

The one thing I will miss is looking for new art to post. I hope that people discovered some good artists while I was actively posting.

Anyway, that is it. I will keep my archives up for the next few months, but eventually the site will be stripped and this site will become merely a personal site for me to post sporadic news about my upcoming projects.

If you are interested in checking out what I am looking at in the future, you can always visit my delicious links.

Sayonara.