March 6th, 2009 5:50 am
OK. So, now I have a blog.
I have actually been asked by a few people why I don’t have a blog. “Why don’t you have a blog?” they say. “You should start a blog.” This might be a compliment. It also might be a nice way of saying, “You write such long ass interesting emails. Why don’t you start a blog, so that instead of emailing me, you can share your rambling thoughts wisdom with people who care (a.k.a. insomniac internet addicts and maybe your mother)?”
Well, the truth is, I have resisted the temptation to blog for years now. Why? Well, perhaps I should put it in the words of my 10 year-old son: “What our family does, is that we make big plans for how we’re going to do certain things that are good ideas, but then pretty soon we stop doing the plan.” Yeah.
I’ve always just felt a blog would be something else to neglect, like the house, the bills, the kids, the pets…
Plus, aren’t blogs supposed to be *about* something? Every personal interest or area of expertise I have is already being blogged about all over the place.
Food? Check
Art? Check
Crosswords? Check
Kids? Double-Check
Politics? Check and Mate
Even if you combine them, it’s being blogged about:
So, if everything’s covered (and believe me, it is) then why now? Why start a blog now?
Well, basically, it’s because of the Dead Pet Fox story. Truthfully, it’s not even that great a story. You probably had to be there. But it’s one of those family stories that has become definitive. So, it would break my heart if someone else started blogging at deadpetfox.com.
But if I wait too long, it will happen. Already, if you Google “Dead Pet Fox,” you’ll find 1) a reference to The Tomb of Ligeia, an old Vincent Price movie that apparently briefly features a dead pet fox; 2) a snotty comment about some celeb in a fur stole, and 3) a rambling post to alt.lifestyles.furries by a guy with a recurring fantasy about Sandy Duncan and his own actual dead pet fox.
I can’t have some fanatic Roger Corman fan or that freak who’s into Sandy Duncan start deadpetfox.com. So, I had to do it. I’m thinking about buying up all the other deadpetfox domains, too, like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie do with their kids’ names.
And what will I actually blog about? Well, you can go back to my son’s comment. Whatever I come up with, I’ll get bored with it soon enough. Read it while it lasts.
