Monday, March 14, 2011

shut the blog up

Blog. 
Sounds like an onomatopoeia.
Almost sounds like an unfinished thought that you didn't really have time to process completely but you said it anyways.
Oh hey, look that actually works.


Blogging to me, is a way of expression. It is a way of saying what I think, in writing form in hopes of being a little more eloquent than my chatterbox self. I often post a blog and go back to read it and disagree with some of the things I said or concepts I endorsed. To me, that is the beauty of blogging... one is entitled to their opinion and post. As long as you can cleverly defend your ideas, you can basically say whatever the hell you want.


According to Andrew Sullivan, author, editor/political commentator/blogger, "You end up writing about yourself, since you are a relatively fixed point in this constant interaction with the ideas and the facts of the exterior world. And in this sense, the historic form closest to blogs is the diary. But with this difference: a diary is almost always a private matter. Its raw honesty, its dedication to marking life as it happens and remembering life as it was, make it as terrestrial log." 
                                                                          I could not possibly agree more.
In fact I would like to talk to Mr. Sullivan for infringement of copyright because I am pretty sure those are my thoughts exactly. He stole them right from my cranium. 


I love blogging because it is a way to start a movement, no matter how small. The movement can be about a photo, video, event, person, idea... the list goes on and on. I support amateur bloggers who write about their day-to-day activities and I support professional bloggers who sit at a desk and write for a living. I support fashion blogs who promote unhealthy lifestyles and fabulous couture and I support health and wellness blogs for those looking to achieve balance and tranquility. In short, you could say that I support anyone with an opinion and the courage to publish it on the world wide web. The world is wide, and it's been spun into a complicated and intricate entity called a web. In that web are thoughts of millions of people, and if you happened to stumble across mine, thank you in advance for reading.


"Blog" may sound like a slip of word vomit, but it is actually a carefully crafted term. It is a conflation of two words: web and log. Web log means blog, and blog means freedom. That's my opinion, and I stand by it.


If you have something to say, say it. If you have an idea to present, present it. If you have a concept to write about, write it. And make it public. Stand behind your opinion and go down with the ship when someone attacks it, because they will attack it.


Ready.
Set.
Blog.


Okay, it's after 4 AM. I should probably think about sleeping now. 


This was a hoot.
~t.