Richard Kriheli

So once again, Filthy Rich kicks off an inaugural blog post (otherwise known as “Hello World: Version Deux”). Only this time, it is with fervency, and with potentially no audience. Well, no audience – yet.

Kriheli.com was around for a while, long before everyone and their mothers had blogs. Long before social networking, and web 2.0. I blogged often, and was somewhat consistent about it. ‘Somewhat’ never really cut it – especially if one claimed to be a scribe. But there were still readers, once upon a time. And there were comments and all kinds of positive feedback. There was a time back in the day, where I actually tried to woo Ananda Lewis through this very blog (circa 1998). I even remember blogging the night before 9/11 – packing my bags on en route to London for a friend’s graduation. The words I posted the following morning still haunt me to this day:

“Tuesday September, 11, 2001. 9:31am – Um, scratch the London trip. War is imminent.”

Gone are those days. As the posts got more and more infrequent, inconsistent and scattered, so did my writing. I’m not sure what exactly happened – or if there exists a root cause for becoming unproductive. Judging by the slew of -ly adverbs in this post, I can already see I have a lot of work to do. Nonetheless, I am here blogging again. And doing it to prove to myself that I still have it in me. Actually, I kinda know I still have something because I ran an anonymous blog last year on a very personal subject matter and was blown away with the response to it. The proverbial fire was reignited, so-to-speak.

That said, here I am with my blog version of a “do-over.” Though, because of past inconsistencies, I will not boast about being a capable, seasoned veteran in this game. I will not assume my readers will be back. But what I will do is honor the written word, this time ’round – and win you guys back.