The beginning of the blogger

Howdy.

These are thoughts, mostly little ones, coming from the mind a male mid-twenty-something gamer/valet parker/media aficionado/never-had-a-real-job from San Jose, CA, concerning many subjects, most of them being quite miniscule and nowhere near worthy enough to grace the headlines of our honorable sources of information, wisdom, and opinion, i.e. the newspapers, magazines, television news programs, and other forms of mass media that shed light on the state of our existence.

The subject matter will be fairly broad, covering subjects from the latest movie I’ve seen or music I’ve heard, to simpler topics such as the global state of the economy to the meaning of life. It will all be covered in due time, as long as I have the time, energy, and money to devote to this task.

I made this blog for a number of reasons: one, write down my thoughts so others can see them and either benefit from them or be glad that they aren’t me; two, because I wanted to; three, to make lots and lots of money, so I can live my life the way I live it without wallowing in my own filth or self pity or the crushing weight of responsibility–or getting a job that will save my life but not my soul.

Ahem. And I suppose I should tell you a little bit about myself. Let’s see, I’ve lived most of my life in Southern California, but have chosen the South Bay (San Jose, etc.) as my home of choice. I have some formal education (college grad), but most of my time up to this point has been spent in worlds created by other human beings (video games) and consider this time spent as just as large or a larger contributor to my education than my time spent in classrooms crunching numbers and reading plays. So let’s just call Shigeru Miyamoto “Shakespeare” and The Legend of Zelda “Hamlet” or Shinji Mikami as “Hitchcock” and Resident Evil as “Psycho.” Even further you could say World of Warcraft is “Macroeconomics,” etc. etc. etc. So I guess you can say I’ve spent much of my time with my nose buried in these metaphorical books, but I do like to get out and smell the flowers and fumes when I get the chance.

I have also wasted much of my time online (or the internet, or intarweb, or whatever you call it), with games and without, and plan to waste much more of my life there, especially now with this “blog” and other commitments I have made to spend in this space some call “cyber.” I have met many beautiful people there, and expect and hope to meet many more.

And so…that’s all for now. If this seems incomplete, that’s because it is.