Blogging La Rochelle: Au Revoir Yankees

My friends at the La Rochelle Sister City Initiative have wisely suggested that I use this website to blog the voyage to our jumelage.

While this site normally serves less as a diary and more as a platform for broadcasting original music and airing opinions on art, medicine and technology, this seems the right opportunity to embrace a less formal rapport with my legions of adoring cyberfans (ahem, Grandma Jean and my parents...).

If Ashton Kutcher can do it, so can I! I'll try to refrain from abbreviating words that are only three characters long to begin with, and will welcome a pie in the face if I stumble so far as to communicate emotions through emoticons.

Until Mid-May, farewell dear New Yorkers. Take care of my rainy, grimy and irritable, but always beautiful ancestral home.

Again, thanks to Peter Korn, Domenic Guastaferro, Sheila Sarkar, David Patterson and Brian Carter of he La Rochelle Sister City Initiative for organizing this trip and selecting me.

Time to watch Shrek V and whatever Ben Affleck bomb American Airlines scooped up in the bargain bin.