Or whatever the Hell is the appropriate term for this first ping for contact with those who may be likeminded, or who might find these notions amusing in some way. I’m not the kind of pretentious shit who wants to title his first attempt at blogging as if he’s announcing the second coming of Brett Easton Foster Wallace. I’m content to just have a little fun and see how things play out. This blog isn’t intended to be helpful to anyone in any capacity, and to the extent that it is, I think that it will tell us quite a bit more about the person helped than the advice given or the dolt who gave it.
This isn’t a blog to promote a product or service or agenda. This blog is for me to write about cars or politics. Or fishing or football. It’s for me to write about what it is to be a father or a husband, or a son, or a son-in-law. This blog is for cooking and eating, Goddammit. Better yet, put two rocks in a tumbler, then pour this blog right in with a sprinkle of alkaline spring water. That’s what this blog is for–whiskey talk.
Music, art, movies–Hell, even books–I’m going to write about all of it. Or some of it. Or maybe even none of it. There is still the very real (though slim) possibility that I might suddenly find myself completely obsessed by and addicted to HAM Radio, in which case I’ll not be writing about any of the above subjects, and this blog is directly going to Suck Air, because HAM Radio.
I see this as being a general sounding board of sorts that I can share publicly with a few friends. If it becomes something beyond that, then good for it. I hope it moves out and finds a nice girl and makes adorable little Blog Babies for my daughter to play with over and over again until she loses all their little accessories, or until the cats eat them, whichever occurs first.
I will utilize a somewhat serious/somewhat comical “filing” system as is seen on Deadspin.com, where I will file stories and/or blogs to the following non-exhaustive list of possible subjects/themes: Cars, Sports, Fishing (fly-fishing), Family Life, Cooking/Eating/Drinking, Travel, Consumption (the buying of things, not the disease, asshole), Art-ish (music, literature, actual art, fashion), Politics, Law, and Life or Death (sometimes the Big Questions, sometimes maybe just an article about a precarious situation or adventure).
I will do my best to at the very least be interesting on this blog, if not in my daily life, and I promise to not continue using stock photos for gags.