Why?

The Wayback Machine's first record of pdxsurreal.com is on August 31, 2001. It wasn't a blog back then, it was just a place to park the name I'd been using since around 1998.

When I first created a presence on the internet back in '94, I used the name Surreal. It was my favorite art style, and it sounded cool to my 20-year-old self, so I stuck with it. It was too common to last long, though, so after I moved to Portland I prefixed it with PDX--Portland's airport code. And that's what I used for the next 20+ years.

The website started as a static site, then moved through various blogging platforms. When I left Portland, I stopped posting. I left the archive up for a bit, but it's been moved so many times images were missing, formatting was wonky, and it was just a mess in general.

So now it's gone.