Entry Zero.

A short introduction before I begin. This isn't the first blog I've started, but unlike my other scuttled attempts at a literary presence on the internet I intend to write more than a single entry, like this one, explaining my intentions for a blog that in the end I'll never follow through on. Not this time, not ever again. I'm going to set myself a goal of ten entries. Ten, not including this introduction. I'm thinking to myself how this is a tall order, especially if I want the entries to not be crap.

Writing is challenging plus I don't really need yet another time-consuming activity that contributes nothing to my already meager occupational earnings.  I figure with my status updates I spend enough time acting au gratis as a social media participant keeping Facebook profitable, and I might as well, as so many of my generation are wont to do, spread my time and energy, my free labor, like butter (free butter), across the web in the form of a personal blog and not limit myself to humdrum posts on Reddit or the aforementioned Facebook. Think of how many more people I can connect with! Thus it is with Here Temporarily that I intend to send yet another voice careening across the digital frontier, hoping to reach a few readers ensconced at their computers, thinking, like I am, about how much time we spend on the computer and how little most of us have to show for it, besides a stack of small advertising windows on the right side of the screen that reflect back like tiny monstrous mirrors what I just looked at on Amazon.com.

I've written reviews and short special interest articles for a few different sites, to say nothing of my finely crafted Amazon reviews (my 'top reviewer' ranking is an impressive 2,419,032), and if I'm gonna give away my writing I might as well do it here. Because even though this blog is technically owned by Google, at least I got to name it, which is, as of this moment, enough for me to convince myself that this blog is special, even though there are probably many like it. It's kind of like Full Metal Jacket when the recruits name their rifles. It's exactly the same, actually.

And so, what am I going to write about? A lot of stuff. Many things. Politics, music (probably mostly various sub-genres of metal), art, books, movies, politics, philosophy, science, and more politics, and that recent obnoxious Huffington Post article "Why Generation Y yuppies Are Unhappy." Things like those things. Maybe that just sounds like a list of topics I like - which it is - but...I needed to make a list so I don't forget what I want to write about, especially if I want to meet my goal of ten (not crappy) entries. And for a while now I've had a fantasy of opening a combination record shop/art studio-gallery/concert venue/used book store, and since this monstrosity of obscure retail isn't yet for me financially feasible, this blog (god dammit I hate that word) will have to do.

Do check back in the near future, won't you?


Currently listening to: Wintersun, Time I