Hello again world,

While navigating the turbid waters of the World Wide Web it's easy to find yourself lost, helplessly paddling through dozens of cross currents, each steering you with equal strength towards buying one brand of male enhancement pill or another.

Every so often, if you let go, however, you find yourself somewhere nice for a change. In May of this year I launched www.davidostow.com my own little cabin along one of the Web's more peacefully flowing tributaries. If you found yourself there in the past few months, it's either because I told you to go or - as in the scenario described above - your travels somehow brought you there for better or for worse.

Well, let me assure you that, should you find yourself by my way again sometime soon, it will likely be for the better. You see, I'm refurbishing. With the help of the talented Little Willow (for whom I don't have a link but I should) this process should take only a few more weeks. This is all to say that if you've visited my site more than once within the past 3 months and noticed there have been no updates, news items, postings etc., please forgive and forget. And have faith. A more dynamic more regularly maintained site is in the works.

I'd also like to announce a new series I'm hoping to feature either here at the blog or at the new site itself, tentatively titled 'Drawn Out Therapy'. This year has been tough for all of us but particularly so for the neurotic. Whether it be a career-related issue, a matter having to do with my social life, a romantic problem, a health issue or - most often- a combination of all of the above, I've seen my share of emotionally trying situations these past few months. And as stressful as they can be I often find myself, amidst one or the other of these trials or tribulations, thinking "There's something really funny about this. I have to work this into a comic or something."

I've found the notion that each one of these emotional sore spots holds within it a potential treasure trove of humor in a way therapeutic. When the heat is on high and I feel too depressed to work I fall further and further inward. But - and I'm told that all of the greatest artists have done this so don't think I fancy myself original - if I use this dark stuff that sometimes seems to be oozing through the pores of my existence, if I swim through it and find among it fodder for something humorous to draw, something people can relate to, well, maybe that alone will be enough to make me feel better. And it should be substantially cheaper than actually seeing a therapist. I'm already in the red there.

So please, continue to read the blog, leave comments. I'll let you know when the new site is up and running and
when I launch the first installment of Drawn Out Therapy.

Hope eveyone's doing fine, d

Tags: drawn out therapy, little willow, new website coming, www.davidostow.com
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