Why I blog or Tag you’re it
OK, Grandad is totally responsible for this post. He tagged me on his site yesterday requesting or requiring me to write this post. Now of course I had one of most intriguing and beautifully written pieces of interweb literature ever put down on a laptop keyboard to post today but alas I deleted it in preference to this one.
Why do I blog?
Because it’s there.
Because I can.
Because I’m an American and it’s my God given right to blablahblahblahblah…..
‘cause I fuckin’ want to, damn it
I maintain this site because it’s fun. I do this as an exercise to better my piss poor writing ability. I write this stuff because I have a metric shitload of ideas constantly running through my head and occasionally they pop out and run down my arms and infect my fingers. Maybe I do it because I want to see how many keystrokes it takes to break my laptop.
Last Christmas time a friend whom I won’t mention is Jefferson Davis was telling me over and over that I should start blogging because I had sent him some poems and prose I wrote and he really liked them. We were doing the Podcast every week and every week he would ask me when I was going to take the plunge in to the online web journal-sphere. Just this past January I went to WordPress.com and started looking around and now yous’ guys’ are all stuck with me.
I’m hooked.
One of the things that I really enjoy as much as putting together fun, silly, thoughtful, argumentative, pedantic, dull, boring and PAROCHIAL posts for yous’ guys’ to read is reading all your blogs. Someone stated on their blog that they do not write for an audience, I do. I write most of this for me first and you secondly but it’s a good balance and I enjoy it.
I really enjoy, “blog bouncing”, and reading all these different styles and ideas and attitudes. Literally every day I find a new blog of interest. Occasionally I find one I really like. You can find those occasions listed on the right under Links I Like.
This has become a hobby of sorts(like I don’t have enough hobbies) in that rather than turning the vidiot box on I like heading off into the cyber-ocean of blogs and swimming around for a bit in the evening just to see what washes up.
Now we come to that part of the post wherein I am to TAG others so that this virtual chain letter can continue on with a life of its own. So let’s see…hmmmm, how about….nah…maybe I’ll pick…..no she won’t do it……..Oh I got it….
Sam, Problem-Child-Bride
Kate, because I said so
K8 the Gr8
I was going to tag Baino but she beat me to it so just go check her out and give her some love and comments.
Tell her Brian sent you.
Jeyzus Brian now I’m under pressure and we’ve only just tagged!
I’m not even sure what tagging is but I found your blog through THAT cross-Tasman Oirsh lad and his Canadian mate who put links to our blogs on theirs. Evil laughter not withstanding I guess it’s open season now
Wha?
Heh … that someone who doesn’t write for an audience is me, I guessing. Musing over the ineternet is certainly surrwal.
Without going into too much detail, how do you and JD know each other?
Baino, No pressure I was going to have you write a Why Do I Blog but you already did it in your post Voyeuristic Intentions. I just want everyone to stop by your site and see what a good writer you are.
Johnny, Good Morning…It’s all your fault.
Dario, Yes, I was referring to you. JD and met through me listening to his podcast and reading his site. Skype ya’ know.
All right, I did it. But be forewarned – I’m tired and distracted and it’s in the running for Boringest Post Ever. I may blog okay, but I don’t blog for an interesting reason…
I podcast – because I find talking in a pub with a beer in front of me alot easier than sitting down to write – basically – I’m a lazy bollocks.
In some ways podcasting is more work – but we only do sessions now every couple of weeks so that makes up for it… and hell. we don’t spend any time editing or making sure the sound quality is alright… see the above:)
Isn’t a podcast really just an audio blog in any case..?