img_1527In the early 2000s, I occasionally essayed on the Web at the site Instead of a Blog. A few of those pieces will find their way here. Please stand by.

Before these Instead of a Blog quasi-blogging days, I wrote for a little magazine for which I started out as Assistant Editor and reached apogee with the title Executive Editor (unfortunately, I was not empowered to execute editors). It was called Liberty. I have placed a few of my essays and reviews up, online, under the banner @Liberty.

In 1999, I achieved escape velocity, leaving Liberty’s service to work in Seattle, during the last gasps of the 1990s dot com bubble. Yeah, my sense of timing could have been better.

I mark some of my (often lame) “visual memes” with this page’s pointer URL, insteadofablog.com. You will find them listed on the vMemes page, which sports the pointer URL memevigilante.com.

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So, why the strange “Instead of a Blog” moniker? I am getting to that. Some time back, Laissez Faire Books produced a line of e-book revivals of individualist classics (2014–2016), for its book club. Most are still available on iBooks and/or Amazon’s Kindle. I wrote forewords to a few of them. I might as well list them here:

Some of these LFB.org “reprints” dealt with economic theory and history:img_4687

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