Monday, March 19, 2007

Overpopulating the Internet, one failed blog at a time.

What the world needs now is not another 24 year old who thinks he knows all the answers espousing, his supposedly infallible beliefs anonymously through cyberspace. Well, everyone has their faults.

This is certainly not my first blog, and probably won't be my last. I sometimes have a short but passionate attention span; passionate enough to think the world desperately needs to know what I think about a myriad of subjects, but short enough for me to move on in an equally attentive way. My past blogs have attempted to reinvigorate independent politics (done better here), expose the world to music that isn't ruined by commercial radio (done more pretentiously here), enlightened the masses about ignored parts of the world (while never leaving a moderately cosmopolitan city), and drafting a candidate who could be the last bastion of rational thought in Minnesota politics. These all clearly failed, except for those who love to post millions of links to nothing in the comments sections of these long abandoned blogs.

But I am back with a simple goal: keep writing. In the recesses of my mind I have always envisioned myself to be a writer. I think like a writer, I talk like a writer, but I do not write...at all. The words leave my mind during rants to coworkers, or become lodged between gray matter and white matter, lost in a series of could'ves and should'ves, until now. There of course is not much reason to believe that I will be any more successful at this than I have been inthe past, but I will be making a few changes. The first is that this will be broad, sweeping, all encompassing. Lambasting Meredith Viara in one post while questioning South Africa's lack of involvement in the worsening crisis in Zimbabwe...why not?

I have something to say about everything, a lot to say about a few things, and enough occasional outrage to go through the process of creating a new blog every month or two. Can one blog be many things to one person, and still be interesting enough for complete strangers to waste a few minutes of their increasingly busy lives? We shall see!

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