From the spam file
I block a lot of spam comments from the site. Most of them are complete gibberish, but a few of them come oh-so-close to making sense. This was the first one to make me laugh:
"I am very impressed with the article I have just read. I wish the writer of phildzikiy.com can continue to provide so much practical information and unforgettable experience to phildzikiy.com readers. There is not much to state except the following universal truth: You are always a little bit scared when you stroke a hourse. I will be back."
Universal truth, indeed.
List-o-mania
Apologies for the recent (longer than usual) delay between installments of my top 100 albums of the decade list. There's been a lot of list making at work lately. And as much as I like making lists, I don't love it nearly enough to do it for 10-12 hours a day.
So many lists. You might say it's ...
I couldn't help it. Well, anyway, the countdown will return soon enough. Also coming soon, an epic collaboration post that also involves something resembling a list ... but it's also so, so much more. I know. I'm being coy.
I've thought about it, sure. Who hasn't? But do I really want a fish that might outlive me ... and my grandchildren? I don't want to struggle with human mortality every time I look into the pond.
Blog: Origins
So yeah, I started a blog. But few things are more boring (or pointless) than blog introductions. So I'll be brief.
I weighed the pros and cons of starting my own website and eventually, I decided that if you're a writer these days, you should probably have a place on the internet to call your own. Creating a blog within that space is also not a terrible idea.
So Grandpa's gettin' with the times. And to show that I'm committed to it (unlike some of my past blogs), I went ahead and bought a domain.
And what an original domain name it is! Yeah, I named it after me. It's not an ego thing - well, not completely. I learned from the Be Sharps - who, of course, used "a name that's witty at first, but seems less funny each time you hear it" - and took the opposite approach. Nothing witty about my name. Funny? Maybe.
What am I going to write about here? Oh you know, a little bit of this, a little bit of that. I do a lot of entertainment writing at my day job, so I'll probably do my fair share here, as well. I don't often get to write about sports at work...this is my new outlet. And of course, there will be a healthy dose of nonsense and tomfoolery. Possibly even shenanigans, but I don't want to make too many promises.