Okay, I have my answer.

Wow, that's all I have to say.

When I made my previous post, I honestly didn't think anyone still read this blog, and was a mere mouse click away from deleting this whole goddamn mess. Imagine my surprise when the next time I opened this page and saw over 20 comments were left for me.

And I haven't posted anything in months.


That made me feel good, but 2 nights ago, something somewhat extraordinary happened to me right outside my apartment door. I was on my way down to the garbage bins, bags of trash in hand, when I ran into one of my upstairs neighbors, a cute bohemian 20-something guy, in the hallway with his Welsh Corgi puppy. I am fond of Corgis ever since I bonded with a particularly uppity Corgi belonging to a good friend of mine.

We chatted a bit, but then my neighbor asked me something that I absolutely loathe.

"Do you have a blog?" he asked.

"Maybe," I replied, not quite sure where this line of questioning was going to take me.

"So, you are Chad Fox, right?"

"Yeah," I replied. Here we go again, I thought.

However, I wasn't prepared for what he said next.


Apparently, he had been out playing with his puppy somewhere in North Beach, and randomly struck up a conversation with someone. That person then invited him to go hang out in Dolores Park for a while, so he did. While talking, the person he was hanging out with revealed the only reason why he moved to San Francisco was because of this guy Chad Fox's blog. My neighbor, suddenly realizing he had seen that name on mail and packages left on the stairs and outside my apartment door, put two and two together and came up with...me.


I was as floored as the accelerator in a stolen car driven by a crackhead, to be perfectly honest. For a second, I was speechless.

And right then and there I decided I wasn't going to delete this blog. The Universe provided the answer for me, and I didn't even have to leave my building. I then went up to my roof and took this photo:


And there you go.

So, for those of you just wandering in here for the first time, and for those of you who have not abandoned me in the past 9 months, thanks for reading, and I'm sorry I was gone so long. I just needed to take a break. I'm not going to promise a post every day, as I try to avoid blogging while grumpy, high, drunk, and/or insane (the end result is generally not pretty). But I do have several thousand photos I've taken over the past year, and what's the use of taking a cool photo if you're not gonna show them to anyone?


Also, the podcasts will return, but just not in their current form. I'll explain why later...a lot has happened in my absence. Several friends of mine have died recently; their lives were abruptly cut short by disease, heartbreak, and tragedy. That's another reason why I decided to take a break for a bit. However, the collective wisdom of my departed friends lives on in my advice to those who seek it from me, their guidance continues to influence me in my daily actions, and their love will forever remain in my heart.


So stay tuned. You'll never know what might appear here next. I certainly don't. :-)