Today I’m launching a new website, one that is designed to be a platform for, well, just about anything. It’s called The Cinch Review.

As regular readers would know, I’ve done quite a bit of writing in this space that is neither directly related to “Bob” nor to “right wing” matters as such, but it has had to bear those labels regardless (not that there’s anything wrong with either of those things!). I don’t want to end this website, but I do want to have a more appropriate context for different kinds of content. I think it might also, strangely enough, help me better focus on what I should be doing in this venue.

I realize that there are drawbacks to having two different websites. There’s perhaps a psychological barrier to going to two different places on the web to read one writer (even though it only takes a click!). Nevertheless, I don’t see an alternative at this juncture. Perhaps in the future I might be able to integrate everything seamlessly and elegantly, but that will have to wait.

As the name suggests, the site will be based upon reviews, but they won’t always be of brand new things — they may of old things, and even of odd and crazy things. The idea is to create a lot of content that will hopefully be diverting and amusing and readable. I want to entertain myself and — naturally — I also hope that it might bring in a few pennies via ads and such as time goes on. It will also include commentary, but probably not of a particularly politically partisan nature. I’ll keep that here along with the Bob Dylan-related content. (However, since I am the editor, publisher, reporter, foreign correspondent, staff writer, editorial board and benefactor, if I break the rules on any of this there may well be no one who can stop me.) The site is very much a work in progress in every respect. I hope to keep it relatively uncluttered in appearance, as it seems to me to be now.

I will link regularly from this website to new posts over there, since that site will need all the exposure it can get.

To that end: I am launching it with two fairly hefty articles. One is a piece on the album In the Wee Small Hours by Frank Sinatra, previously published in an earlier version in this space, and the other is a look at a book called “Samuel Menashe: New and Collected Poems”. Hope you dig it.

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