Post 001: Zomg, a blog, lolwut?

Today, I was assigned a simple task for my English Composition course at the local college:
to start a blog and write in it.  (so said Confucius.)

My immediate reaction was to reach violently into my frontal lobe--massaging my #egoboner along the way--in order to pull it out.  Doing so prevented me from having to question this seemingly stupid exercise of writing such small format material for no one but my college professor and maybe a few narcoleptic otaku hypernerds who have taken their late-night session exactly twenty-two web search queries too far.

"Who am I right now?" I thought, "Hank fucking Moody?"

Then I opened up my Apple Macintosh laptop with all the self-aware irony I could mustache...er, muster, and stumbled around, through, and down the rabbit-holes of cyberspace to try to find blogs maintained by people for whom I already had an appreciation.  After finding that some of my favorite writers, film critics, and techie revolutionaries have taken the time to make posts on blogs of their own, I decided it can't be all bad.  Right?

I found Roger Ebert's blog enojyable and satisfyingly simple.  It covers a wide range of topics and a nice, clean UI that navigates almost as naturally as the central nervous system.  One feature I'd like to try to implement in my own blog is the short preview of his (I want to believe he writes it all himself) posts with a link at the bottom of the box to view the full article.  Hopefully I can crack the old typing muscles and get to work on that.

B, for every Roger Ebert post that introduces me to some new independent internet filmmaker like Krishna Shenoi,


{I had seen his fanvid for Inception, which I remember liking IRL, but failing to contribute anything but another view count to on YouTube. Even though the Internet is a vacuous world of masturbatory self-expression, at least it introduces us to (and possible even produces) great minds and artists like this dude, who makes such wonderfully Surreal shit as this at the age of 17, if that's really how old he is.}

there is a blog like this by Chuck Palahniuk, who is probably to #ALT/#Anarchist for the Internet. There are also those like this one by Jasper Bark, an author I admire for his imagination and social satire, but doesn't seem to give a two sheckels  to a nickel about his blog after updating it with his latest business.  I guess he still writes some pretty sweet stuff, even when it's not in a book.   A lot of these resemble shameless self-promotion.  Maybe that's all anything is on the internet anymore.  Everyone is just selling their personal brand.  We've retreated back to the animal kingdom, but now it's being played out like chess on a circuit board.   Come on people, this is the fucking 10's, right?  Can't we at least pretend like there's something more to life than #InformationAndTechnology?

Are blogs merely timesinks that can be boiled down to temporary, unimportant distractions when you need to "get back to work on books"?  We'll explore that more neurotically in a later post on whether or not blogs are dead.   This post on why blogs are a good thing has encouraged me a little bit; it says a lot about how we use the information we with here on planet Internet. I'll also be spending the first few days playing with posts to see what I want to get out of this--I mean--what I want the reader to get out of it, I mean, uh....  I guess we'll see how it goes.

#Schedule:
First day of film class tomorrow, so I can't make the Freemason's meeting.  I guess we'll see how that goes, to


#The Last Word:
Like black and white film and 90's punk rock?  click this link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijUCUV6VX8Q&feature=related

Okay, no, it actually goes to this

Cute little avatarguy on Yahoo! Answers

"You ask about ego but then add greed, instinct, etc. etc. My ego stems from what hangs between my legs." - <Move on>, user of the Internet and speaker of sacred truths.

#Meant to See, but Didn't:

http://www.sonyclassics.com/pomwonderfulpresentsthegreatestmovieeversold/

Ah, Sony Pictures Classics is indeed the shit.  Plus Big Boi says something pretty profound and telling of the times.  Could be a powerful and honest documentary with some interest Statments/Questions about the economy and--just maybe--cavemankind.

#Assignment: Consider format and central focus.

#Thoughts/LOLwut?/Statements: Red Dawn was the first movie to be given a PG-13 rating.  That's to be expected; what with all the McCarthyism.



From a desk in the back room,
in the midst of a war

-- L.W.