Generally, the path is from paper to an online presence, and not from online to print.

With this in mind, I started a small paper.

I have it in the shop and customers can take it for free. I made ten copies on the cheap laser printer I bought with rebate checks and rewards points, and find myself to be an editor. It’s less a newspaper than it is a visual assault, tragically. And the initial “issue” is mainly reheated blog material because the point isn’t to get current blog readers collecting notepaper at my cheaply printed expense, but to get people who don’t read the blog either curious and checking the blog out, or making a mental not to be sure to never, ever read this blog.

I’m hoping there’s less of the latter, and more of the former.

One guy came in for a later lunch, took a copy, and I about followed him down the street to thank him. I hope he didn’t just use it to put his gum in, or something as equally disheartening. So yeah, I managed to give away one copy.

I don’t know. I just figured it was another way to get myself out there.

The graphic design and layout probably would have been more impressive if I hadn’t squeezed it in between to jobs last night after work, finishing somewhere around 1 a.m.

Find it here.