Why Did I Create A Blog?
1. I have a lot on my mind and need a creative outlet.
2. My brother has a blog.
3. My father doesn't have one.
4. I love the written word...particularly when it's mine.
5. It's too difficult to use an ellipsis in speech.
6. I don't spend nearly enough time wasting away hours on the computer.
7. Just one more excuse to ignore the family.
8. The world is crying out for a hard-hitting liberal blog.
9. The world is yelping for a tough-as-nails, take no prisoners conservative blog.
10. I don't like message boards because people actually read what I write there.
11. I like posting links to unusual or funny sites that I think others might enjoy.
12. That's actually bullshit. I like posting links to unusual or funny sites that I think I might enjoy and likely will forget to bookmark.
13. I want a G-rated blog that my kids will enjoy reading.
14. Guess they're not reading #12.
15. I like making lists.
16. I'm vain.
17. Who doesn't appreciate puns?
18. I have something to write that no one has ever read before.
19. Not like I'm going to share it with you, though.
20. So that it finally can be said that creating a blog has officially jumped the shark.
21. I'm an attention-whore, who doesn't charge for services provided.
22. Why not?
23. Does it really matter when I love you so?
24. So my Mom has no excuse to say I don't talk with her often enough. Shhhh, as far as she knows, this is just for her...er, I mean you! Hi, Mom!
25. I'm out to prove that accountant /= boring...but reading a blog posted by one definitely is.
26. God, I love a well-placed ellipsis.
27. This is not...one.
28. A blog is more productive than viewing internet pornography. It's also the cause of many less virii.
29. I enjoy making lists, even of sometimes unrelated items.
30. Pretzels with cheese dip.
31. I just lost my train of thought. Mmmm, cheese dip.
32. Okay, so where were we? Oh yeah.
33. I want to win an internet award for world's best blog.
34. I mean, another one.
35. So I can give shout outs and mad props to my homies.
36. I can type 'homies' in two consecutive sentences and no one can do a thing about it because I control this blog!
37. I can't get banned from this place, unless I want to.
38. To post my innermost thoughts and feelings, because I really value what complete strangers on the internet have to say about them.
39. This reason for sale - inquire within.
40. This is a good place for me to post things happening in my life that my family can read about. Therefore, I shall save on phone bills, as well as being repetitive.
41. Joe DiMaggio hit in 56 consecutive games and deserves my praise.
42. I want to discover the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything.
43. So I can look busy at work.
44. Sometimes I have a good thought and go to write it down but then I realize that I don't have a sharp pencil or the pen I've been using is out of ink and I am about to forget what I was thinking about and please thought, don't leave me because it really was worthwhile and how in the hell could I have typed all of this on a single Post-It Note, anyway?
45. I want to post something in my life that ends up attributed to George Carlin, who will of course deny it on his website, at first, until he realizes the sheer brilliance of what I posted, at which time he will greedily claim it as his own and sue me for plagiarism.
46. I, of course, will wish to settle. I know some good lawyers at the OTBL boards.
47. I can make reference to things like 'OTBL' that many readers won't understand, and that makes me feel superior.
48. Isn't that all anyone really deserves? Superiority is highly under-rated.
49. I was going to think of 100 reasons but I'm running out of good ideas. That was evident around reason #17.
50. So that you would read it, and hopefully smile, laugh or think, at least once.
Welcome to my blog.
2. My brother has a blog.
3. My father doesn't have one.
4. I love the written word...particularly when it's mine.
5. It's too difficult to use an ellipsis in speech.
6. I don't spend nearly enough time wasting away hours on the computer.
7. Just one more excuse to ignore the family.
8. The world is crying out for a hard-hitting liberal blog.
9. The world is yelping for a tough-as-nails, take no prisoners conservative blog.
10. I don't like message boards because people actually read what I write there.
11. I like posting links to unusual or funny sites that I think others might enjoy.
12. That's actually bullshit. I like posting links to unusual or funny sites that I think I might enjoy and likely will forget to bookmark.
13. I want a G-rated blog that my kids will enjoy reading.
14. Guess they're not reading #12.
15. I like making lists.
16. I'm vain.
17. Who doesn't appreciate puns?
18. I have something to write that no one has ever read before.
19. Not like I'm going to share it with you, though.
20. So that it finally can be said that creating a blog has officially jumped the shark.
21. I'm an attention-whore, who doesn't charge for services provided.
22. Why not?
23. Does it really matter when I love you so?
24. So my Mom has no excuse to say I don't talk with her often enough. Shhhh, as far as she knows, this is just for her...er, I mean you! Hi, Mom!
25. I'm out to prove that accountant /= boring...but reading a blog posted by one definitely is.
26. God, I love a well-placed ellipsis.
27. This is not...one.
28. A blog is more productive than viewing internet pornography. It's also the cause of many less virii.
29. I enjoy making lists, even of sometimes unrelated items.
30. Pretzels with cheese dip.
31. I just lost my train of thought. Mmmm, cheese dip.
32. Okay, so where were we? Oh yeah.
33. I want to win an internet award for world's best blog.
34. I mean, another one.
35. So I can give shout outs and mad props to my homies.
36. I can type 'homies' in two consecutive sentences and no one can do a thing about it because I control this blog!
37. I can't get banned from this place, unless I want to.
38. To post my innermost thoughts and feelings, because I really value what complete strangers on the internet have to say about them.
39. This reason for sale - inquire within.
40. This is a good place for me to post things happening in my life that my family can read about. Therefore, I shall save on phone bills, as well as being repetitive.
41. Joe DiMaggio hit in 56 consecutive games and deserves my praise.
42. I want to discover the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything.
43. So I can look busy at work.
44. Sometimes I have a good thought and go to write it down but then I realize that I don't have a sharp pencil or the pen I've been using is out of ink and I am about to forget what I was thinking about and please thought, don't leave me because it really was worthwhile and how in the hell could I have typed all of this on a single Post-It Note, anyway?
45. I want to post something in my life that ends up attributed to George Carlin, who will of course deny it on his website, at first, until he realizes the sheer brilliance of what I posted, at which time he will greedily claim it as his own and sue me for plagiarism.
46. I, of course, will wish to settle. I know some good lawyers at the OTBL boards.
47. I can make reference to things like 'OTBL' that many readers won't understand, and that makes me feel superior.
48. Isn't that all anyone really deserves? Superiority is highly under-rated.
49. I was going to think of 100 reasons but I'm running out of good ideas. That was evident around reason #17.
50. So that you would read it, and hopefully smile, laugh or think, at least once.
Welcome to my blog.
posted by Dagrims @ 8:11 PM
8 Comments:
At 9:38 AM, July 15, 2006,
Anonymous said…
Really creative stuff. I read it, only moving my lips part of the time, and snickered out loud. (I very seldom laugh out loud, so a snicker could be considered a compliment) This was the highlight of my day. Then again, I've only been up 90 minutes, and pretty much just read the paper and made eggs.
So, I'll send you the link to the creative posting I was just referring to above, and mention that your blog isn't bad either.
Seriously (though that will likely be a rarity with my posts), I can see having fun with this. I'll list my 50 things I want to do before I die (an edited version). The first on the list is "Find my list of 50 things I want to do before I die". As I recall, I only accumulated 37 Things, and have done about 10 of them, which is increasing my TTDBID/Year number as I type. Of course, #38 and #39 will now be added, those being to post on the blogs of my sons.
Good luck with your blog...loved the list format.
At 12:36 PM, July 16, 2006,
Merge Divide said…
Nice to see you took the plunge. It's a great feeling when you realize that you can post your thoughts on the internet for all to see, and millions... no, billions!... of people will... never bother to look. Anyone can cry for attention, but let's see how artfully you can cry for oversight and neglect.
What I mean to say is... I love the ellipsis too! Do you think its genetic? I was actually gonna name my blog "ellipsis", until my wife said it sounded kinda faggoty. (so I picked a manly-sounding title) Anyway...
Now that you have a blog, you will actually understand why people leave comments on other folks' blogs...
At 12:39 PM, July 16, 2006,
Merge Divide said…
Oh dear God... I forgot to put the word "faggoty" in quotes...
At 3:14 PM, July 17, 2006,
Anonymous said…
I do believe part of it is genetic, as I use (perhaps overuse) ellipses. However, I doubt you saw much of that in any of my writings prior to you picking up the same tendency. Mostly I've used them in internet room chat and IMs.
As for a personal blog...I don't think I'd ever consider it. The reason has nothing to do with not liking to write (I do), or enter into discussions or debates (I do as well), or that I have no opinions (OK, maybe not life-changing, but still opinions), but rather for the same reason I'd wouldn't write an autobiography or a collection of thoughts, or a book of accumulated funny stories...I forgot entirely too much good stuff. [Also, there's stuff no one would believe] If I had HAD a blog, I'd have so much material to work with.
D. Grim...
1."My dear God?" Wow, where did that come from? Not that there's anything wrong with that.
2. If it's a word as stated, it wouldn't need quotes. Hmmm, or is there a word for non-acceptable words?
At 3:39 PM, July 18, 2006,
Anonymous said…
Ohmygawd and here I thought my predelection for the ellipsis was...annonymous! You're giving me a complex already.
Thanks for brightening my day with the list, not to mention the other bloggers (who shall remain nameless except that I know who they are and where all the bodies are buried). This is better than phone conferencing. And hey, if you can make jefg snicker out loud, you've made the big time.
Me, I'm just noisily hilarious while reading these comments and feeling happy that at least I did "something" right while raising my kids. Of course now I'll have to check the blogs instead of playing spider solitair, or working, or playing spider...well you get the drift along with the now infamous ellipsis. Don'tcha just love that word?
And by the way, I've decided not to be particularly PC in these blogs, so if d.g wants to say faggoty w/o quotes I say knock yourself out.
Does this mean I won't get any more phone calls??? E-mail???
At 8:30 PM, July 18, 2006,
Dagrims said…
Thanks for the comments. The next entry will have to wait until I can think of something interesting to write.
No, it doesn't mean no more phone calls or emails. I certainly can't prevent you from doing so.
*kidding!*
At 7:25 AM, July 19, 2006,
Anonymous said…
I'd certainly vote for #14 on your list...the list of books, not the Blogging list. By the way, and speaking of laughing out loud (or snickering), MK's Joe was laughing out loud when I shared your list with him. He was impressed with your #42, the significance of which had escaped me. Quite clever, that.
BTW, MK calls me the man of lists...can that be considered hereditiary as well?
As for the goal of 1,000 books, best wishes. I'd give you a tip that you'll pick up the pace when the kids are out of the house and off on their own, but I wouldn't want you to put things off to do later (a tendency that might be hereditary). Other than the travel books you refer to, I only began reading regularly a few years ago. I wish I HAD kept a list, as lately I've picked up a few books off the shelf and got into a few pages before I realized I had already read them. Besides, it would be interesting (at least to me) to see how many I have read in the last five years. By the looks of your list, my reading list would look like one picked up at a beach reading festival. I did enjoy Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, probably the most rigorous I've read. Some books I have to plow through 20 pages at a clip; that one I hated to stop (all 1,152 pages kept my interest.) Instead of a list of books I want to read, I have a 15" pile of books on my credenza. Just finished Middlesex, one recommended by MK's boss, and one she could not get into.
On the other hand, I do have my 830 songs on my IPod neatly cataloged into at least 20 Playlists. I have one for driving, one for walking, one for reading, one for meditating, etc. etc etc. I enjoy cutting CDs for people according to their interests.
C, both of your lists provide a nice base for commentary.
To D.Grim - thanks for the three books, I'm in the middle of Illusion. Now, which one was it you wanted back?
At 9:09 PM, July 19, 2006,
Dagrims said…
I'm glad Joe caught the #42 reference.
As for the Bill James book, if I get through it any time soon, I'll send it on to you. If it's good, that is.
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