Genesis

Why blog? I guess that's the most basic question anyone must answer when they start blogging. If it's for stupid reasons like internet fame or because they think they're already awesome and everyone deserves to hear their opinions--well, they probably won't get very far anyway. You don't write unless you have a reason to write.

My reason for starting a blog just now, ten years after I first logged onto the internet, is simple: I have things to say and don't know of a better way to say them. I don't care whether I have a bunch of readers or if only my friends give this blog the time of day. I don't care if the comments are positive or negative. There are things I've been meaning to say for a long time and I'm finally going to get them out. The title of the blog is Earth-321, my own little world. It's a universe number I assigned to the world where some of my fiction writing takes place; it's the highway I live off of, and it's the state of mind I'm writing this blog from.

I guess the real Genesis here is the internet itself--not just the system of tubes that brings it to your screen, but the attitudes and culture of the Internet. Much of the Web seems to be divided into two extreme camps--people who believe all opinions are sacrosanct and calling any entertainment crap is never objectively true, and people who hate almost everything, and who think that they're better than everyone else because of what they like.

An example of the former would be the people of the forums of Comic Bloc, where strong criticisms of the creators of comic books is frowned upon because the creators might--heaven forbid--actually read them. An example of the latter would be hell holes like Encyclopedia Dramatica and the somewhat popular blog 'Your Webcomic Is Bad and You Should Feel Bad', where the authors often wish cancer and worse upon people who've committed the unpardonable sin of not being good at webcomics.

Frankly I've grown sick of both types of people and feel the need blog out a middle ground, even if nobody cares about it. My subjects will be mostly related to movies, fiction, comics, video games, and the internet, but I may veer off into religion and politics occasionally too. Don't worry; I'm not a dogmatist who thinks he's never wrong, and offer everyone the opportunity to take what I say with however many grains of salt they please.

If you've read this far, you apparently do care what I have to say; in that case, check out my archive. I'll try and put up at least one article a week, but as busy as I otherwise am, I make no promises.

...To be continued...