Category: Announcements

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.

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.