Stagnation

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that, after a somewhat frantic display of blogging activity, that I wouldn't touch the bloody thing for a month.

Really I just came to post about my friend overseas starting his own blog. I say "starting" like he's just put pen to paper, when in reality he began posting around the time I started this one; in this case it's more like he's "starting" to tell his friends he has one. Is that proper blogging etiquette? Do friends pimp out their own blogs to each other in a desperate attempt to gain readership? Hell, I doubt anyone's going to read this post, let alone my handful of friends who have better things to do... like, I don't know, breathing.

That's probably the reason why I've let this electronic diary languish on the interwebs: readers. I don't have any. Sure, there's the cathartic element of firing your thoughts out of your head and onto a string of spare bits, but if no one's paying attention it doesn't much matter to me. Same thing with my artwork or random attempts to come out of lurkerdom on various forums - they're all basic shouts in the dark to gain recognition in a digital nation where Mentos and diet soda fountain videos get hundreds of thousands of hits and "no u dont u idort" is valid intellectual conversation.

Otherwise, why bother? I can keep my thoughts to myself if that's the alternative, thank you very much.

Template for First-Time Blog Posts

[Awkward statement of greeting.]

[Brief introduction, realizing after the fact that no one will care who I am until sometime after my blog's content attracts an audience.]

[Musings about the nature of first-time blog posts.] [Minor tangent about blogs in general.] [Statement that my blog will be different, just like everyone else's.]

[Declaration about this blog's subject matter and purpose.] [Greater detail of said purpose.] [Backpedal and make allowance for more general topics in case the intended purpose doesn't draw any readers or I get bored.]

[Closing statement or witty comment (optional).]