Dave Madness and Starvation Watch, Day 1

Since I'm moving to New York City, there were a gazillion titles I could have used for this inaugural post, but they all seemed so trite. "If I Can Make It There," "Start Spreading the News . . .", "I'm in a New York State of Mind . . ." I also toyed with "Ad Astra Per Aspera", which is the motto of Kansas ("to the stars through difficulty"). This seemed to perfectly capture my real feelings about the city. I love it, and it scares me to death, and the Dickerson-trained risk-averse part of my nature wishes I could do anything else. But I'm a humor writer, and New York seems the only place I could possibly thrive. More later on this. For the moment, this is just what I had to write in order to set up the account.