For Your Enjoyment: New Project, New Post

Last week I pulled the veil back on a new project that I’m fairly excited about: Gentlemanly Means Pursued, a new blog at Charm City Current (an offshoot of the Baltimore Sun’s publishing efforts). Here’s the description I provided for the site:

Gentlemanly Means Pursued is an attempt to curate modern life in service of those who seek to live it better. Among that which you’ll find here: substance, style, handmade and/or artisanal goods and services, thoughtful approaches to complex problems, an appreciation for fine artifacts, and worthwhile dispatches from culture both high and low.

I’d been looking for a place to do some more arts/culture writing but was wary of starting up another site. When Nancy from the Sun approached me about writing for Charm City Current, promising that it could be about “pretty much whatever you want,” the pieces all started to fit.

I’ll probably post links here to a lot of what I do there, but I’d also ask that you bookmark it and/or grab the RSS feed. If you do, you’ll always be one of the first to dig the new stuff. Such as today’s post, Writing Tips For Modern People. A sample:

Don’t get too cute.
Use exclamation points sparingly. Use emoticons very sparingly, if at all. If you’re older than 22, start to weed out phrases like LOL and OMG. Keep your sentences on the short side.

I’m planning on having some fun with it and I hope you’ll join me.

More announcements soon…