Hi.

My name is Benjamin. I’ve been running a site under this name since 2003. The original homebrewed version is dead, but is hardly worth lamenting. It was rubbish. Even worse rubbish than it is today.

At the outset I had high hopes of becoming an interesting writer. Sadly, the number of posts I’ve made in all these years that I’m proud of today is distressingly few. In time, I added a photo section—despite causing some redundancy with my Flickr account—and a link section because I didn’t think they warranted a full-on article.

Yet I feel that I never really found a purpose until the holiday season of 2006 when I re-discovered cross stitch. Yes, re-discovered. As a youth in semi-rural West Virginia I passed the time bent over a hoop stitching idyllic farm scenes and what not. My mother still proudly displays one of my creations.

I found a whole new way to cross stitch with the release of Subversive Cross Stitch and put my efforts into writing dirty words with thread. Staring at all those grid-like charts one thing came glaringly to mind: NES sprites. The rigid structure of cross stitch was just perfect for the 2D characters of the 8-bit era. Since then, I’ve been ensnared.

Elsewhere on the web I can be found on Flickr, on Twitter, and on Etsy

Sorry Town, USA huh?

Regarding the name of the site, as it elicits a more powerful response than I had intended when I share my email address, I have a brief story. Back in winter 2003 I was attending school in Huntington, WV. I had just received my very first digital camera as a Christmas gift and so enamored was I with my new ability to snap photos and access them immediately I carried it everywhere. This would prove to be fortuitous. En route to a movie I caught a glimpse of a memorable sign in a pawn shop near my tiny studio apartment.

The next time I walked down that street it was gone, but I’d always have photographic evidence of the ephemeral sign. Shortly thereafter I found a deal on registering a .us TLD. Well, it just seemed like a perfect fit.

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