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Hey Reader,
Obviously, you have nothing better to do. I’m guessing you just finished binge-watching your favorite show, and now you need something to occupy your time while your muster up enough strength to rise like a fat phoenix from the couch. Or maybe you’re just surfing online, went down a wormhole, and crashed onto the shore of this here blog. Either way, or whatever your reason for visiting, welcome.
As this blog enters its tenth year of existence, I felt it was time to reflect and just type something other than my typical fare. I don’t really have a mission statement for this thing. If you were to take my first post as an indication (“Guess I’m the only writer on MySpace that hasn’t blogged a word yet. Maybe I should start soon, huh? I will. Just not today.”), simply making a statement was a mission.
Yep, that’s right. This blog started in 2006 as a MySpace blog. I eventually transferred it over to WordPress. Had to. By that time, MySpace was garnering a reputation as a mecca for pedophiles and ne’er-do-wells, so your boy had to bounce. The blog was created for two reasons: 1) to give my mind a canvas to wander and roam in order to not go completely manic worrying about my baby brother who was losing his fight with cancer, and 2) because a friend convinced me that as a writer I should, you know, write. I was hesitant about writing on this digital format. I was old school, for real. Scribbling on notepads, napkins, and on the back of receipts was more my speed. But that speed was proving to be too slow. I had to catch up and get with the times.
I didn’t want to do a typical blog. You know what I’m sayin’? The kind of blog where the author talks about what’s on her or his mind EVERY DAY. That wasn’t for me. I’m going to be real with you. I don’t have that much to say daily. Nope. Sorry. Can’t do it. What I tend to do is jot down observations and thoughts over a period of time, usually a month or so, and then I introduce them in a single post. That’s about it. Nothing fancy. No frills. There are hardly any pictures. Hardly any hyperlinks. It’s 99.99% text. So if you didn’t like words and/or reading, then you wouldn’t dig these monthly brain farts. It doesn’t matter. These days, I’m too nonchalant to raise my blood pressure about someone’s dislike of something written here. You can’t see it, but I’m shrugging.
I don’t always have the most popular, hippest, most sensitive, or aesthetically pleasing viewpoint on certain topics. I seriously joke and can be jokingly serious. Shouldn’t matter. We’re all on this planet for a short time anyway, so enjoy yourself. Learn to laugh more. It makes the road a little less bumpy. Who knows? Maybe this thing will go on another decade. However long the journey lasts, wherever it takes us, I can promise you one thing. I’ll continue to blog about stuff that’s weird, insulting, dumb, and useless as long as you 3 readers out there keep on checking it out. Thank you for your continued support and whatever else I’m supposed to say at the end of a letter like this.
Until next time…
Think Ink|Thinq Inq 