Here we go again.

So this marks yet another attempt at me keeping a personal blog. I've never much liked the idea of blogs, but started keeping one to see if it would improve my writing ability. Or, at the very least, force me into some impromptu creativity to keep me writing. Every blog I've had, from an old site my best friend and I kept, to the one I tried to maintain on my MySpace, back when I had a MySpace, has failed. This was mostly due to me realizing nobody read it and losing interest. Ironic that I should land an independent study where all I basically do is blog.

I'm starting this one up because my writing for said study - a swanky little site called TheFhiz.com - has me doing a political column and my writing for it is ... sporadic. I'm the king of off-topic when it comes to that site, so I'm categorizing. Or multitasking. Or something. In fact, I never understood Internet lingo. Up until a few years ago I didn't know what "lol" meant. And just this month I learned what "imho" meant. The whole thing scares me. What these shortcuts do is reduce something like laughter into one universal symbol. It makes talking on something like AIM or texting easier, but it destroys a certain meaning in the language. What kind of laugh? Is it sarcastic or hearty? Honest or forced? Or even diabolical? "LOL" can't answer these questions.

So English is important to preserve, which I guess is what is at the heart of this blog. I'm told I write well, and I think in my largely dysfunctional brain that injecting good, and if not good, at least grammatically sound writing into the Internet might change something. And if not, it gives me another outlet to bitch about the misuse of language. Among other things.

So what else would I write about? Anything I guess. I'm an interesting person and I form opinions about everything, some of which may be valuable, most of which are just one person's opinion. But enough of that; here's the deal. You stick with this, and so will I.

"One-Free-Man?"

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