Why I'm Doing This

I have come to the conclusion that the world needs to hear my voice.  That there is a void out there that only I can fill.  That the universe needs to know what I think.  Before the internet I would have been yelling on a street corner that the world was going to end.  Now, I can do that here, and save my street corner yelling for cars and bicyclists who ignore the WALK sign that I clearly have, don't make me stick my umbrella in your front tire spokes and send you flying pretentious asshole over handlebars.

I got the nickname Shaggy at the University of Chicago (which is why I've gone with the Maroon background for this).  At the time I decided I needed hair past my collar, and a full beard.  Unfortunately, I was only able to grow a beard in spots, and looked like the aforementioned Casey Kasem-voiced co-star of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?  And, now that I have conceded to the fate of male pattern baldness, and gone to shaving my head, the nickname is tinged with irony.  Tinged out the ass with irony.  Man, that's tinged.

OK, the real reason I started this is my sister started a blog called Merry Go Round, about being a single-mom (hey, read it before you roll your goddamned eyes).  And her second post is about how I corrupted her two kids (here to be known as the World's Cutest Nephew and World's Cutest Niece, or WCNs for short) by playing Led Zeppelin IV (OK, I know that's not the title but blogger doesn't seem to have a ZOSO icon).  And I wanted to comment on it, and when I tried they wanted my profile info, and kinda made me start a blog, and I kinda wanted to anyway, so now we're all stuck with this and here we are.

We'll get to my actual rules of the universe later.