Very Infrequently Asked Questions...

If it’s late on a Thursday then it must be time for some more Infrequently Asked Questions…

Question: How in the world have you gone this long without talking about the return of the McRib?

Answer: I know, I’m stunned as well. Especially given that the commercials for it indicate that this is on par with the Beatles getting back together with incredible press coverage and lines going out the door. All this for a sandwich featuring a meat like product slathered in something that is not technically ketchup but not quite motor oil. While you know going in that there is no part of a chicken that is technically a McNugget at least you could conceive of how they would be made. The McRib goes beyond this by seemingly being the product of some mutant animal that is roaming the plains of Idaho. That said, given that you can’t eat the lettuce at Taco Bell (now leaving them with only four ingredients) completely processed food might not be such a bad idea.

Question: So what is this about expanding the blog empire?

Answer: I still haven’t done my due diligence here (busy as hell this week) but earlier this week I got an email from someone inviting me to be a contributor to their blog. The good news is that I’m pretty sure that I’ve heard of this site so it might very well be legit. The bad news is that it is an NBA blog and I was chosen due to my interest in the NBA. Which, unless Lindsay Lohan suddenly became the starting point guard for the Knicks, doesn’t seem to match up with what this blog is about. Sure, I write about sports all the time and will talk about basketball from mainly an Illinois/Duke perspective but I can’t see that this would make me stand out amongst the blogsphere. Still, who knows, maybe I can figure out a way to make it work.

Question: Wait a minute, the blog is supposed to be about something?

Answer: Technically there is a purpose to all of this. Several purposes actually, many of which have appeared over the past two years. It’s always been my goal to have this site be a music review site, though I’ve lessened that as I’ve discovered that a) I have a hard time writing music reviews that don’t solely consist of “This is awesome” and b) people tend to want to read about bands that they may actually have heard of. It’s also meant to be a pop culture warehouse, which it is successful in being.

But while I didn’t think this was the overall goal two years ago I think that this really has become a case of my documenting my life. I know that sounds strange or at least self-centered but it is rather cool to know that I have two years of my life detailed in these pages. Given that I still consider myself to be on a journey to determine just who I truly am and I constantly fight the battle between being an adult and retaining my youthful idealism, I think it is a rather good time to capture these thoughts.

I still am fighting over what belongs in the blog and what doesn’t. There is one story I am working on that I’ve decided is to personal for the blog but will be fine for my memoir/short story collection. Which means that I feel weird posting it but wouldn’t have a second thought about forcing people to pay to read it. And I kind of feel like that is silly. I still won’t write about work but I’m thinking that I might relax some of my criteria in the coming months.

That’s it for tonight. Finish up your Christmas shopping this weekend.