Five Before Chaos

So, Christmas Eve, when the birth of the mythical Christ child is celebrated, kids get excited, and you hope that you don’t get too drunk tomorrow and tell that special family member what you really think of them.

This is the beginnings of blogdom for me, fighting off the urge to rename the blog ‘Why Should You Give a Shit What I Think?’ Interesting things, blogs. that is, on these here internets. One night in a fit of semi-drunken boredom, I decided to hit that ‘view next blog’ button. 50 or so blogs later, I figured, what hell, why not? A few interesting recurring themes I found were the ‘angsty teen girl’ blog, complete with Clearasil-laden soap opera, and the ‘pictures of food eaten that day mixed in with other crap’ blogs. The latter variety seems to originate from the far east. A few I saw had typical (whatever the hell that means) Singapore or Thai teenagers posting pics of their friends, as well as all the things they ate that day, captured in pre-eaten, just-served digital glory. A stranger variation I found had the food theme mixed in with fanatical-type Christian prayers… Picture a plate of Moo-shoo pork, then under it a rant about the goodness of God on all his wisdom, etc. Then a plate of Happy Oyster with Two Suns and Spring Roll, then I am not worthy blah blah… Ah, the cultural differences I’ll never understand.

So pull up a chair, throw a spaghetti western in the DVD player, or perhaps ‘Bucktown‘ for a really good laugh, crack open a McNeil’s Slopbucket Brown, and let’s chat, shall we?

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