Excuses, excuses

I've been trying to think of a good explanation for letting my blog lapse for the entire month of April. I was going to go with the requisite, "I'm a grad student. Blerrghh." But I use that excuse for everything. And the real reason (which I'll refer to simply as "personal issues") is too confessional for a blog about art. I could conveniently claim that I've been doing a bunch of academic work and just haven't thought about blogging, but, well, that just wouldn't be true.

But lo and behold, I've found the perfect reason to let myself off the hook: Kanye West has rendered me irrelevant.

For serious. Stop reading this blog right now (well, after this post) and head on over to Kanye's blog instead. Dude's got everything covered: contemporary art and design, architecture, music, and a smattering of liberal politics every now and then. New York Magazine has already beat me to it and dubbed him the World's Greatest Blogger, so obviously you're wasting your time here. The posts are delightfully to-the-point (if a bit consumerist) and written by Kanye himself, who attended art school briefly and actually knows what he's talking about. And if that's not enough, you can even e-mail Kanye some photos of yourself in Stronger glasses, Kanye's own contribution to avant-garde fashion design:

You're out of excuses. Now git.