So. I guess I need a mission-statement of sorts. Why a blog? I make fun of people who have blogs. Blogs seem to me to be both the height of narcissism and the natural extention of 21st Century life, (which may or may not fold narcissism into it's definition)...Of course people put their most private thoughts and feelings out into the world while at the same time they feel unable to interact with actual human beings. I feel the same way.
I've also been reading a lot of Johnathan Franzen and Montaigne recently though, and there's something about the ESSAY that I'm intereted in. The Essay. That bane of high-school seniors, the refuge of the high-falutin'...I want to write essays. Weird, huh? ...And one would think that I could do so, write an essay, and keep it to myself- just write it down and put it in a drawer...but that seems dumb. Writing is communication, right? Why write except to communicate something TO someone...(Frankly, I've never been good at journaling- it seemed so POINTLESS to me, which probably points to a basic flaw in my psyche, I know.)
So. I'm sure my hero Franzen would think less of me, (not that he knows me from Adam anyway), but nevertheless, here's MY BLOG. My way of putting something out into the world. Some communication. Some insight. Some bitching. Here goes.
