How Did I Get to This Point?
I really didn't intend to make a blog. I just wanted to comment on blog of a friend. But somehow I signed up to publish my own (mostly by accident, but I can't promise that there weren't any subconscious desires involved), and I've never been good at backing out of things. It must be my upbringing. So here I am, and here you are, if anyone is in fact reading this.
What shall we talk about today? Shall we shake our heads at the dismal goings-on in the world? There's no shortage of disasters to choose from. How about the war in Iraq? Perhaps not. Rumour has it that a blogger or two may have previously addressed that topic, and I'd hate to reinvent the wheel. How about hurricanes? All right -
Please give to hurricane victims. You're probably much better off than they are, after all.
There; now that my civic duty is done, I guess I'll talk about where I got the names of my blog and my persona (both of which, apparently, have already been used, but as they [the French] say, c'est la vie). "The Daily Mail" is the name of a British newspaper (which I learned about from the Beatles tune "Paperback Writer") and appears here because there's a ring of futility to it. "Idioteque" is, as some of you will certainly know, the name of a Radiohead song which I took and misspelled for my own purposes, because (as luck would have it) it also has a ring of futility to it.
I guess that's all for now, folks. I'm going to go leave that comment that I got onto this site for in the first place.
What shall we talk about today? Shall we shake our heads at the dismal goings-on in the world? There's no shortage of disasters to choose from. How about the war in Iraq? Perhaps not. Rumour has it that a blogger or two may have previously addressed that topic, and I'd hate to reinvent the wheel. How about hurricanes? All right -
Please give to hurricane victims. You're probably much better off than they are, after all.
There; now that my civic duty is done, I guess I'll talk about where I got the names of my blog and my persona (both of which, apparently, have already been used, but as they [the French] say, c'est la vie). "The Daily Mail" is the name of a British newspaper (which I learned about from the Beatles tune "Paperback Writer") and appears here because there's a ring of futility to it. "Idioteque" is, as some of you will certainly know, the name of a Radiohead song which I took and misspelled for my own purposes, because (as luck would have it) it also has a ring of futility to it.
I guess that's all for now, folks. I'm going to go leave that comment that I got onto this site for in the first place.
posted by Oliver Lemke at 3:41 PM
2 Comments:
I'm sorry you had to sign up for a blog to comment on mine, but I'm definitely glad you have one! Please don't let it fall by the wayside...it feels really good to post and it connects you with your friends from back home (you know...until you make some more! :-D)
Guess what!...I just joined the Italian Club! Maybe I'll make some friends there! :-D
Keep up the blog, sir!
"Potmodern"? College is getting to you, man... avoid the frats... Anyhoo, miss ya lots, and you'd love some of the intellectualism here. Youd' fit right in I'm sure.
I would like to be selfish and point out that I was the first among us to be on blogspot, though I neglect if far too often! :-)
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