So You've Decided to Start a Blog?

It's the middle of finals, only a semester left of law school before I enter the "real world," and I've decided to create yet another large distraction for myself. I hope to make this blog a worthwhile reading experience, though don't know what that means exactly, and also then must wonder, a reading experience for who? Or is it whom? Stupid grammar! In fact, I'm not sure when I will be comfortable to start letting people know that I've actually started this. Part of me wants to put a link in my Facebook immediately after writing this first post, though a part of me wants to hold out until I actually have some content, figure out my format, and spare myself embarrassment and ridicule. It is inevitable that one family member will tell me I'm being lame, and someone else will probably joke that I'm trying to compete with them and their blog. As for competition, I say "Bring it on!"

So I guess I have to ask myself, why do I even want a blog? I mean, I read plenty of blogs every day, so what exactly do I have to contribute to the booming world of the blogosphere?

Well, most of the blogs I read don't seem to discuss much personal in the lives of the bloggers, except for the rare tragedy. I don't think I will honestly ever forget when Matt Zoller Seitz's wife died last year. How sad.

Most of them are about movies, television, music, or comics, so I guess at the very least I want to contribute to that discourse, and start to keep better track of just how many movies and television shows I seem to devour in a week. I hope I'm as good as that 22 year old guy Patrick who seems to have many of the same tastes that I have. I want to at least write with the intelligence he does on everything from Buffy, The Wire, and Paul Thomas Anderson. I mean, I don't want to look bad being a whole two years older. That would be embarrassing.

I guess in some ways those are the things my life is about outside of school, my friends, my family, and my treachorous career path. It seems like it would be fun to actually contribute to events like "The Opening Shot Blog Week" or "Your Favorite Short Film Week." Yes, I'm a geek.

Even geekier, maybe I am just excited of the prospect of making a damn good blog with pictures as the headings, and hyperlinks to other articles and blogs I've read and discuss. Perhaps some embedded Youtube clips.

Maybe I'll use it as a chance to share some music, like all those music blogs that simply up albums every day of the week. It seems nice to share.

But who am I kidding? Inevitably, there will have to be the constant updates to what is going on with me, along with the magnified drama, the pathetic second guessing of what's really going on, the loathing and self doubt. And for those of you reading that and thinking "Poor guy, maybe he needs therapy," consider that I am reasonably happy with most aspects of my personal life right now. So maybe this will be my therapy.

I've never been very good about keeping a journal, and I've probably tried to at least 5 times in my life only to write one or two mopey entries when I was feeling really down only to later throw the pages away, but here is my chance. I guess I can't make any bold statement like "I'll keep writing if you keep reading," since as of right now this blog is still covert, but I guess I will just promise, that if anyone asks what I'm doing and I just happen to be blogging in public, I will cleverly retort Paul Rudd style "I'm just writing in my gournal."