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Friday, March 01, 2002 ( 3/01/2002 04:50:00 PM ) Bill S. RESPONSIBILITY DUCKING INTRO - Let’s blame somebody! One of the great ignoble traditions for ventures like these is the tradition of foisting responsibility for the endeavor on someone else. You know how it goes: “I probably wouldn’t be boring you today with this intricate dissection of Andrew Sullivan’s outraged misrepresentation of Carol Lay’s last salon.com cartoon if (blank) hadn’t talked me into starting a blog!” Ducking responsibility is as American as parsing “is,” so who am I to buck a trend? So let’s blame Jay Zilber, why don’t we? The proprietor of the most excellent current events web log, Mind Over What Matters, is the guy who got me involved in following this blog stuff. It’s not the first time he’s been a corrupting influence - years ago, he also led me into the sordid world of comics focused amateur press alliances – so clearly the man is to be avoided at all costs. From the title up above, it’s probably obvious that this won’t be a politically-inspired blog. I’m a pretty unsophisticated guy in that arena: self-righteous hypocrisy and party line expediency tend to piss me off too much – and I’ve seen plenty of examples of both from most shades of the political spectrum. Doesn’t mean I won’t make an occasional comment on the political world, but that’s not the main thrust of this web log. Over the past year I’ve written a number of on-line pieces devoted to pop music and comic books - and this’ll be more of the same, only more scattershot. Insatiable consumer that I am, I’ll also be looking at other patches of pop life – I just can't help myself. (If you’re at all interested in getting the full scoop on yours truly, more information than you probably want about my wife and me can be found at the OakHaus Oracle. If nothing else, you'll find a lot of cute pics of our pets. . .) # | |
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