Ummm, hello? Is this thing on? 1...2...3...4...

So, blogging. Cool. I've heard a lot about this, and read a bunch of other blogs, and for some reason, at this juncture in my life, I feel that I should get on the blogwagon and see how it treats me. I guess I was pushed to this by a desire to make myself heard in a way that was anonymous, yet at the same time public. It stems from a letter to the editor that I read yesterday in the Universe that was the breaking point in my "Dealing with Self-Rightousness" ablities (specific blog to follow) and I wanted so badly to reply. But, it WAS a letter to the editor. I could write one back, but that would just be sinking to his level. Writing a letter to the editor is like wrestling with a pig: you both get dirty, but in the end you were still just fighting some stubborn animal in the mud. So I considered my options to get my opinion heard, and in the end came to blogging. At first I planned to just have this page for tirades and manefestos of various sorts, but I was amazed at the other ideas that came to me. My apartment (hereafter known as "The Autonomous Collective" or TAC) is a hive of interesting ideas and conversations and I think the world needs to hear some of those, even if it means we lose our standing as BYU students. Seriously, it's never bad. But when you get 6 guys making commentaries on life at 2 AM. . . man I wish I had a tape recorder sometimes. This blogging stuff could be pretty sweet. At least for me and the 1-2 other people I pay to read it and make commentaries.

I would like to thank the Duchess (without a T) for kind of inspiring me to start this up. She knows our connection, but until further legal obligations permit, I'm not at liberty to explain why. Like anyone else is even reading this. Yet. . .