so after years of wondering why in the hell people invest so much time in blogs, i will stop. The overwhelming cynicism that filled my cerebral cavity upon hearing 'yea, i wrote about that in my blog today' will be quelled and quieted now. Originally, i used to think, why the fuck would someone read your blog? To be honest i feel the same way about starting mine now. Sure i have a few friends that would delight about hearing my whimsical rants about daily nonsense sprinkled with the occasional gem of poetic displays (and i do mean occasional), but really? an online journal (i've never liked the word diary- one its too close in appearance to dairy (not that i have a problem with dairy, i love cheese), and two, it sounds like something a 12 year old school girl secretly writes about her crushes in until the asshole of her class finds it and spreads it around the school, crushing her already fragile hold on the goodwill and kindness of humanity) just seems to embody the dementia of this cultures current state........ mainly that we all want to be famous. like Chuck Pahalnuik said in fight club (the author of the book, yes i know brad pitt was great, but it was chucks writing)-- we are just starting to realize that the most of us will never be famous, and we're pretty pissed off about it (or something to that effect).
so here we all are trying to cling to something in the hopes that it lasts longer than we do. still indulging in that minuscule possibility that someone will read this and say 'wow, we need to give that person money to do this'. And then there is me. i embody these mentionings above as well, but i also succumbed to peer pressure from the all poets, writers, musicians, and artists i work with to have one. so like my title suggests, this is why people starting buying pet rocks. everyone else was, we (by 'we', i refer to 'I' in the present case) felt it was silly to do so, but still got conned into it, and then actually got into it.
so to the few people who actually will read this, couldnt you just go read some already established classic literature? i mean if you read this and didnt know that fight club was a book, i highly suggest you read that instead. or if you did know it was a book (insert back-patting here), go read the rest of his stuff, he is phenomenal. and if you really are that cool that you have read all his books, go read vonnegut, or nietzsche, lovecraft, kerouac, bowles- something that has substance. because this blog probably wont always succeed in that. if you do keep reading- thanks i suppose. i hope i can entertain and.... well lets just start there for now shall we?
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Why do academics read their colleagues papers? Why not just read Stephen King? I think because some of my favorite writer's happen to be people that I know. Blogs allows us have insight to each others lives without having to actually socialize talk to them. Basically I hate talking to people and have always wanted a Pet Rock or a Chia Pet.
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