Introducing...

Why hello computer world! I am here, alias and all, to leave my incorrigible vapor of blahblah on your web! I chose to name this blog Grandfather Rabbit simply because I liked the sound, the images it evoked, and the idea behind it - something I found while reading about Ted Kaczynski for a project that never eventuated. An excerpt, you say? Ok....

"This is kind of personal," he begins by saying, and I ask if he wants me to turn off the tape. He says "no, I can tell you about it. While I was living in the woods I sort of invented some gods for myself" and he laughs. "Not that I believed in these things intellectually, but they were ideas that sort of corresponded with some of the feelings I had. I think the first one I invented was Grandfather Rabbit. You know the snowshoe rabbits were my main source of meat during the winters. I had spent a lot of time learning what they do and following their tracks all around before I could get close enough to shoot them. Sometimes you would track a rabbit around and around and then the tracks disappear. You can't figure out where that rabbit went and lose the trail. I invented a myth for myself, that this was the Grandfather Rabbit, the grandfather who was responsible for the existence of all other rabbits. He was able to disappear, that is why you couldn't catch him and why you would never see him... Every time I shot a snowshoe rabbit, I would always say 'thank you Grandfather Rabbit.' After a while I acquired an urge to draw snowshoe rabbits. I sort of got involved with them to the extent that they would occupy a great deal of my thought. I actually did have a wooden object that, among other things, I carved a snowshoe rabbit in. I planned to do a better one, just for the snowshoe rabbits, but I never did get it done. There was another one that I sometimes called the Will ‘o the Wisp, or the wings of the morning. That's when you go out in to the hills in the morning and you just feel drawn to go on and on and on and on, then you are following the wisp. That was another god that I invented for myself."

Intrigued? http://www.primitivism.com/kaczynski.htm

Well now I feel all gloriously justified and so forth. Perhaps I will return to blog sometime soon when my fingers get itchy - will it make a difference, if no one will experience this blog? To be honest I haven't the foggiest idea as to why I have begun blogging at all...