Reason for the blog

Do things have to have reasons for being? asked the undergraduate who too high of an opinion of himself. Yes, and no. Most things, things like rocks, and birds, and ummm… dolphins don’t have to have reasons for being. They’re just there; they don’t have to have any reasons. A rock just is a rock, man, like a bird just is a bird, and dolphins are just the most wicked smart fishes in the world. There are some things that do need reasons for being though. A journal is one of them, and by extension, so is a blog. And this is a blog, not a dolphin (though it would be totally radical if this were a dolphin. AN ELECTRIC INTERTUBING DOLPHIN OH MY GOD.)

Reason? It’s embarrassing. OK, here it is (guess it wasn’t that embarrassing). I want to Become A Writer (first step: learn When to Capitalize and When Not To), and I think that, to Become A Writer, I have to write a lot of things, and I have to read a lot of things, and I have to have a lot of “life experiences”. So, this blog is my attempt to wrestle with those things that I have read (book reviews, etc.), and to present things that I have written (heh, heh, like that’ll happen) and to keep a record of the things that I have experienced (reviews of X,Y,Z). I’m looking at it as a repository of reviews, of how this person who is trying to Become A Writer engages (critically, aesthetically, and emotionally) with the many world around him.

That’ll do, pig. That’ll do.