Well this blog's name is now the WAR ON LONELINESS

Since it's now nine years since I started this blog in the summer of 2008, the truth can be told about its name. Blotter Paper, while it does carry literary connotations (in college I wrote the police blotter, for instance) was primarily a reference to my favorite drug at the time: LSD.

Now that I'm seven years sober, I feel less connected to that name, …