There's Always a First...

I was browsing the blog postings of some friends and associates of mine, and decided that maybe something like this would be useful to me. Now, this isn't going to always be the kind of blog where you sit down and read it, laugh a little, and move on...some of the stuff will be long, and boring. Ultimately, this is a place where I plan to flush out my ideas (most being literary in nature, some politics, some stuff about gender studies, and some pop-culture/media related posts). The goal is to improve my writing, engage some ideas in a public space, and see what comes back. I'm not writing for "the masses"...I'm not a journalist; I never claimed to be. You'll see some essays on here about books that people no longer read for pleasure. You'll see some stuff on here, I'm sure, about Kanye West's lyrics. There will be some picking apart of films, some posts about things I see around me, but most of it is just a laying out of the stuff that I usually occupies the space in my head, where I live. I say look at. Some of it may interest you.