NOTE:  All of the entries prior to this one (and including this one) are from the old blogspot site and have been imported here to www.iamdanluke.com .  The things I am referencing in this post for the upcoming site are the things you now see manifested on this page.

In the words of Trent Reznor, “Let’s all go have coffee somewhere (my treat)!”

Often times I feel bitter, even envious perhaps but alas, I do not feel that way today. I am an angry young man. I am a neurotic young man. And often while speaking I have the tendency to mindlessly ramble or sail off into fantasies contained only in my fleshy cranium. But you beautiful, lovely people have stuck with me through it all. Even in this paragraph that could have summed it all up as: Thank you so much for your support. I understand that I am fucking weird.

It’s been one year since this site went up now on blogspot and it feels like it’s just getting started – that or like it has been absolutely flogged to death. And it feels great to have come this far, but I really wouldn’t have kept up with it if it weren’t for all of you that took a genuine interest in my under-developed thought process and boring-ass life. All of this profane self-loathing and mindless rants about sex and pop culture would never exist if I didn’t have such a wonderful group of friends that have this site set as their start pages and gladly recommend it to others.

Because of all of you this site has grown from maybe fourteen or so people to over six-hundred devoted readers and it feels fantastic.

So, with that I have some wonderful news: I am going to be expanding Dangerous Mind in the upcoming months. I’m going to buy a domain name and move to a WordPress account while the very talented Corey Olsen helps me with all of the new coding and the optimization of this site for search engines. I’m going to structure the content better and channel all of this ridiculousness into something that is more manageable to read and digest.

What does this mean for Season Two?

  • Consistent updates – You’ll be getting one (at the very MINIMUM) every Thursday. In the form of an essay, supplemental (Dear Diary stuff), video, or whatever else I can think of.
  • A better layout – I understand that when you come to this page it can look overwhelming. You may have to scroll through articles that don’t particularly interest you in order to get to the ones that do. This will be a thing of the past with the new domain and site.
  • Better topic organization. If you like the pop culture essays, you will be able to easily access those, if you want all the personal stuff it’ll be there at a click of a button. The new site will a well oiled, organized machine.
  • Guest Bloggers – Let’s just say I’ve been talking to Jesse Nirenberg quite a bit lately.
  • And much, much more!

It has been a wonderful year and a fantastic season. And I’m going to push this site to be bigger and bigger until it completely destroys me. Thank you so much to everyone that is sticking with me. Were on to bigger and better things.

Dan.

P.S. Be sure to leave some ideas for content you’d like to see!