Is this thing on?
Riiiight. Starting my first blog. Not counting my co-blogging, this will be my first step into a larger world. No wait...that's Obi-Wan Kenobi, back when there were no midichlorians.
And that -my flash sideways about the Jedi Master and midichlorians- is a side track, like I intend to indulge in a lot on this here blog site...and yet at the same time it is sort of the point:
Ben Kenobi was still our space Gandalf, we could learn about the Force and be blissfully unaware of technobabble midichlorians...and there were no blogs. No IPods. No internet either, if you don't count the DARPA spawn of the late 70ies/ early 80ies. The world was nice and graspable. Hmmm or was it...
No. No of course the world wasn't any more graspable back then. It just seems that way now, because we look back through a fuzzy lens to the time when we were kids. We just didn't feel the need to connect all the dots all the time.
Fast forward to the Now. We do have internet, and blogs, and we appear to have a great many more dots we can connect. So despite my Bah Humbug quotations and my sometime-romanticizing of a simpler and perhaps warmer age: I thought, why not have a go with these quaint things called blogs?
Well, actually there are plenty of reasons not to start a blog. For one, some 99% of all blogs will not be read. At all. At best you can expect to emo-blackmail your friends and those family who're not Shoot On Sight to you into reading a few posts. After that you're lucky if you're in their bookmarks folder, gathering virtual dust.
Second, blogging is a main weapon of your internal procrastination demon. Every minute blogging is one minute you're not writing that elusive novel, or getting back to that awesome Dungeons & Dragons campaign you once mastered.
Third, blogging tends to be bad for your language mastery. Before you know it you'll be switching from third person plural to first person singular, and even jumping randomly from semi-autobiographical mode to addressing your unseen audience.
...Hmm. Well Taikong suoyou de xingqiu saijin wo de pigu!
I'm gonna blog anyway. You can always find perfect reasons not to do anything. And before you know it you've entered lethargy space, that grim region of space that's home to the penal asteroid of Writer's Block.
So what's left to explain here? I think tone and content can be inferred from this introduction. (Tone: wordy and stream-of-consciousness hip. Content: nerd speak, nerd rage.)
Lastly, a word on the title, then. The absurdist phrase "Just Lawful Chaotic" is a roleplayer pun best explained by this close analogy. It also spells out my initials. Oh for Dan Brown fans: no these initials don't stand for Jesus Christ" with an 'L' hidden by an ancient Masonic conspiracy.
Except of course I would be saying that, hee hee...
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