Not counting certain Geocities and AOL Hometown ventures, Bombast-xxx was my first official site. I launched it in 1999 as a place where I could publish reviews of music and movies. The site gave me my own space to learn HTML and attracted the attention of other writers and local press. Other writers helped turn the site into an official webzine and the local press eventually hired me as a freelance music journalist.

Don’t let the x’s scare you; they just looked cool.