Saturday, July 2, 2011

Get a spot of tea and a crumpet we're in for the long haul

I wanted to post a prenupt agreement to this blog, so anyone who decides to invest in this relationship will know what they will be getting out of the experience.  It all started in the hay days of Myspace, before people were posting constant status updates about every second of their lives on Facebook, they were updating their profiles with background images, new music, and blogging about every second of their lives.  My Myspace had all of the glitter and glam a Myspace should have; widgets downloaded off the billion different websites offering free content, my favorite songs to rep how badass I am, and even, a customized background theme of the San Francisco Giants.  It had it all, it was as if I could display myself on the internet, without the Senator Weiner showing his weiner shame that follows.  After tricking out the Myspace page, I found the blogging tool and figured people who visited my site deserved even more of me, so I began to write blogs.  At first they were your standard run of the mill, "I went here this weekend and did these things and took these pictures and vomited on this curb and boy, aren't you jealous you weren't there, but if you were there sorry about being so drunk that I puked on the curb in front of your house then passed out in the bed of your neighbors truck" type of thing.  The blogs eventually evolved; not in the, "We all came from monkey's" evolved (which seems so ridiculous to me, because who the hell wants to think they evolved from monkey's, I'd much rather think I evolved from a wolverine or something a little more kickass than a friggin' monkey), but more in the sense, they were kickass to start then evolved into something kickasser (That's not a word you say?  Well, when our society takes it upon itself to add OMG and LOL to the dictionary, I do believe it's okay to add an er to the word "kickass".  I mean, really?  Do people really wonder why our language is the laughing stock of the world {likely the universe}?)  So, I blogged and it was good.  My little soap box was the perfect way for me to say what I needed to say without necessarily having to hear what someone else had to say.  I continued to blog on Myspace until the social network of social networks Facebook destroyed my fan base.  Now I have to hear about every second of peoples lives in a constant stream of crapola..  No, I don't HAVE to, I could always delete my Facebook, but the sad part is, it's how I keep in touch with far too many people.  What has our world come to when the best way to keep in touch with a friend or family member is through an internet site?  Anyway, I digress, this is not a bash on the lameness of Facebook, it's an explanation of why we're (I'm assuming someone may read this at some point) here.  I recently logged back into My_____ (Myspace is so bad off they can't even afford to spell out space in the title anymore) and realized how much it has changed and not for the good.  Profiles were gone, no more backgrounds and music, no more blogs and widgets.  Everything erased for some crappy interface, which I suspect some marketing guru thinks will pull people away from Facebook.  I instantly felt a sadness like part of my life was missing.  All those blogs about why I thought this was bad or that was good, all the stories, all the accolades poured on by my three loyal readers...all gone!  I knew what I needed to do, I needed to start anew (I reread that sentence and it has a lyrically rhyme to it that really should be edited to not sound so Dr. Suess, but I'm going to leave it).  Here I am to start anew and here you are to, hopefully, enjoy the Rants, Ramblings, and Randomness that will make up this blog.  In revisiting my opening sentence, I should explain what this will be, so we both know what we're getting into and what we will be leaving with.  I don't have some particular topic or agenda I plan to write about on a regular basis, on the contrary I plan to write about anything and everything that strikes my fancy.  I like to have feedback on the subjects and any suggestions on upcoming topics are highly encouraged.  I don't typically write in paragraph style, so if that is a pet peeve of yours, you may want to enroll in a college English comp course and then you'll get all the paragraphs you can handle.  Don't get me wrong, I try to use correct spelling and punctuation with my limited english prowess, but the time it takes to hit the enter key and then tab to create a paragraph is far too time consuming and those are moments you can't get back.  "What about the run-on sentences?", you ask.  I'll attribute that to a stylistic expression of my writing and say it's my artistic discretion to use long sentences that go on for whole paragraphs at a time in which many times I am talking about several topics at once and may need to be reread several times over just to get a slight comprehension of the subject matter being discussed in the aforementioned run-on sentence that you are currently involved in.  Not sure I have to say much more, but I do welcome you to my blog and appreciate the time you spend here.  Please feel free to leave comments.  Here's a list, just as a sneak peek of the upcoming topics I tend to discus: a discussion of the movie industry and how new movies are evaluated by critics, a synopsis about a movie idea I got while thinking about what to have for dinner last Tuesday, a political look at a new law in California requiring Kindergarten and up to teach gay history in history classes, and a viewpoint on the coming 2012 catastrophe.  I may have to narrow the scope of my topics to get any readers, but we'll see over the course of time.

1 comment:

  1. LOL Jay you always crack me up with your blogs. I have only read the first one. But thought I would let you know that I have started to follow. I am slow and inconsistant, but eventually I will get to them. Love ya and keep speaking your crazy mind :)

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