Welcome to the spiffy new Mayzure.com. After nearly a year of neglect, I decided to revamp and relaunch this site. Previously, this blog didn’t really have a focus, which quickly turned it into a chaotic mess. Sometimes I posted about politics, sometimes I posted about personal thoughts, sometimes I just posted a snapshot of the current state of my desktop. And towards the end of its previous iteration, it devolved into auto-reposting the days’ twitter tweets. The turning point came just a few days ago. The domain renewal notice showed up in my inbox, and I had to seriously contemplate whether I wanted to keep the site or let it go. It is, after all, my last name (and a rather distinctive one, at that). That’s when I decided to go ahead and renew the domain, and actually do something with it. So here we are.
“So, who is this guy behind Mayzure.com?” you may (or may not) be asking. I guess I should take the time to introduce myself. My name is Brian Mayzure. I’m a freelance graphic designer living on the southwest side of Chicago in a neighborhood near Midway Airport called Archer Heights. I’m a hometown boy raised in Bucktown, and later Humboldt Park. But I haven’t been here in Chicago all my life. In my tween years, my family moved to a small southern town in Tennessee. After high school, I moved to the Nashville area to go to school, and wound up staying there for many years. Later on, I spent two years in Indianapolis, where I quickly learned that despite its faults, Middle Tennessee was a much more tolerable place than I had given it credit for. Indiana, it turns out, is far more right-wing conservative than Tennessee. In the fall of 2005, I took a leap of faith and moved back to Chicago. And I haven’t looked back since.
My plans for this site are to discuss all things Chicago. Which can come quite naturally to me, as I’m a Chicago native and Chicago resident. Whether the subject be local Chicagoland politics (which are almost always entertaining), community issues, happenings, food, culture, music, I plan on discussing it. I’m very opinionated, and I love my city, so it’s time to combine the two. I hope you’ll stick around and join the conversation. This could get interesting!
