Overture

I've been agonizing for days: How do I start this blog? What dazzling display of literary prowess should I pick for that first, all-important post? Do I write off the top of my head and hope it comes out genius? Do I recycle something previously written for somewhere else because it's already been criticized and judged? What do I talk about - something personal or something universal that more potential readers can relate to? Well, I guess that all depends on just who those potential readers are, doesn't it? So the big question, for me, is: Am I going to let anyone I know read this? And I guess the answer is that if I keep writing, eventually someone I know is going to see my blog. So, discretion being the better part of valor, I'll treat this as a public forum and bear in mind that once you put something on the internet you can never take it back. Much like in real life, though, I don't think I'll be able to stick to that old maxim, "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all," because there frankly wouldn't be much fun in blogging, then, would there?

All of this assumes, of course, that anyone out there gives a rat's ass about anything I have to say, and that potential readers, known or unknown, exist at all.

So,to you, my potentially-nonexistent-potential-readers, I post this first, jumbled introduction, and hope you'll come back for more. And that I will. And that this is the beginning of a beautiful, self-referential, self-deprecating, hopefully-not-too-meta friendship.