The blog your friends always tell you they're starting

Maybe you come from a certain class of people: hard-working, simple, only use the internet for the most utilitarian purposes -- perhaps not even at all. Your friends don't try to appear stylish and no one in your circle pretends to be urbane. If you watch television, you watch whatever happens to be on, or whatever you happen to like, and you are blithely unconcerned with what the programming says about contemporary culture, what it says about you that you enjoy it, or how the show fits in with (or stands out from) the grand T.V. milieu. You have never explained any of your musical preferences in more than a single sentence. In fact, if you found out tomorrow that your entire social circle neither liked nor knew of any of your music, it wouldn't bother you one bit. In fact, if you found out tomorrow that your entire social circle completely shared your musical preferences, it wouldn't bother you one bit. Movies, political opinions, and literature all go in the same bag. Even if you cared, you can't see why anyone else would be impressed, or why they would spend much time talking about it, much less writing about it.

If this describes you, you are in good company.

If this sounds extremely pretentious but oddly compelling, then you know exactly what this is about. Another fool has started a blog. You've been down this road before. Your friends have invited you in the past to read their blogs, and you do it, but with apprehension. On the one hand, you will, almost surely, get to know things about this person that would never come up in an entire lifetime of face-to-face friendship. On the other hand, you have to suffer through a Warholian soapbox, which God and nature have, with good reason, endeavored to take away from most people. And, since good sense and sloth usually triumph over even the intoxicating enfranchisement of the internet, you also know that this blog won't even be updated six months from now.

In fact, if you're reading this, there's a good chance it's 2012, this blog is two years out of date, and you only got to this page by accidentally concatenating the wrong string of keywords in a google search.