Testing. Testing *Feedback*

Due to the timely demise of my Myspace page (for Christ’s sake, I’m pushing 30) and the fact that Facebook only allows the slightest hint of what’s going on in your life through the status bar (“Phil is finding it difficult to get the blood out of the curtains” etc) I thought I would start a proper blog.

Why would I want to do that? Excellent question. Thanks. First of all there actually seems to be people who want to know what’s going on in my life. When I tell them “nothing, nothing at all” they don’t believe me and think I’m being evasive or coy. Well, I hope this blog will provide ample proof that not only is there nothing to report from my life but that there is also very little going on inside my head as well.

Secondly, and most importantly is that I need to get back to writing regularly; to “get my write on” if you will. I took a creative writing class recently that was sadly cancelled due to lack of attendance. In the short time it was running I not only met some lovely people but was also reminded how much fun pouring your brain onto paper* can be. I’m hoping this pleasingly understated site might force me, if not to put pen to paper, to at least put finger to keyboard** more often. Who knows, I might get better at it and resist phrases like “get my write on”.

Before I go, some quick ground rules:

1. I will post something every day, except when I don’t.
2. I will try my very best to find something interesting to say and not a gruelling run-down of my daily mundane existence: “I went to the shops, they were out of Findus Crispy Pancakes blah blah blah”. I understand this will mean some flights of fancy and the odd flat-out lie. To be honest, most of my posts will be about popular culture, especially films. This is because I’m a nerd.
3. I will put pictures up as often as I can as to be honest they will be more interesting than anything I could write and make the place look pretty. Currently, this will mean ripping pictures off the Information super inter-web which may or may not be allowed on this site, but I hope to be getting a flash camera soon (that’s a nice camera, not a camera with a flash… Though I’m sure it will have one).

Hope to see you soon.

* That’s a metaphor.

** “Pen to paper” is an alliteration. “Finger to keyboard” is not, which is why that sentence ended so badly. See it all sinks in, even when you think it doesn’t.

~ by phildathunda on June 28, 2008.