Monday, 30 June 2008

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  Today was my day off.  I usually spend my off days cleaning my apartment or running errands, and if time permits I’ll watch a movie at the local cinema.  But today I met up with my friend Kate (Beckinsale).  She picked me up in her Land Rover and we had lunch at an In-N-Out in West Hollywood.  While we were eating, she talked about her recipe for an apple-less apple pie, and I talked about the different types of feudalistic governments in Asia during the 1300s.  Somehow our discussion drifted, and she asked why I didn’t opt to drink Diet Coke instead of regular Coke.  I explained to her that Diet Coke makes my skin necrose.  She found this amusing, so she threw her Diet Coke in my face.  We laughed uncontrollably at this as my face melted away.  A few minutes later, our friend Michelle (Branch) walked in and joined in the laughter.  We must have been a little loud and obnoxious because the truck driver sitting nearby told us to be quiet.  Michelle was a little perturbed by this, so she pulled her Grammy award out of her purse and clocked that guy in the face with it.  Then we left and went bowling in Culver City.

  The events of today may seem substantial to some people, but to me it seemed like simply another opportunity to blog.  Perhaps I’m inflicted with some sort of addiction to blogging, because for the past few months I’ve found myself analyzing mundane events in my life, and interpreting them in ways that would make for a good blog entry.  Maybe it’s just a fad, or a phase that I’m going through.  But maybe it’s not.

  Days like today make me glad that I live in an age of mass communication.  People say that technology today, in the forms of the internet, cellular phones, etc., has made the world more impersonal.  No one writes letters anymore because everyone emails.  No one talks anymore because we can chat and text message.  But it’s this exact impersonal quality of technology that makes today’s world so awesome.  Blogging has given me a medium to share my thoughts with the world.  I suppose I could have always shared my thoughts with the world by simply talking to people, but the truth is that talking to people in real life kinda sucks.  You have to worry about stuff like whether or not your breath stinks, or if there is something in your teeth.  And, people tend to talk back to you in real life.  Blogging lets me express my thoughts whilst having a chicken bone in my teeth, and the reader can talk back (comment) to me if they choose to do so.   A blog is a thinker’s paradise.  Anyone with a thought has the potential to be a blogger, whether they’re a philosopher or a complete simpleton.  I’ve read good blogs and I’ve read bad blogs.  And the blogs that I consider “bad”, I’m sure others consider them “good”.  I am not the authoritative figure on labeling what is a good blog or bad blog, and neither are you.  The world doesn’t owe you or me anything, so I don’t feel too horrible when I read something I don’t like (and neither should you).  The single most redeeming quality of the blog culture is that someone might have a thought that I might find interesting.

  Perhaps blogging is a phase.  Perhaps it’s a fad that will go away in about a year or so.  I suspect that it will, eventually.  In 17 years bioengineers will develop a chip that will be implanted into the frontal lobes of our brains, and this chip will allow us to telepathically communicate with each other.  Also, this chip will have Bluetooth™ capability, so we could send our thoughts to a desk printer and print out a hardcopy of our musings.  The ability to wirelessly interface our brains will, in effect, eliminate our need to blog.  But, until then, we have the internet.  We will continue to read about what you had for lunch, Starbucks coffee, Yahweh, love being a totally human construct, sex, and far-fetched stories about having lunch with celebrities.

  I’m sure I’ll find something interesting, and I'm sure you will, too.

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