Wednesday, August 21, 2002

I really don't think I'll have a prevailing theme throughout my blog; this is because like most people I do not have a prevailing theme in my life. If I did it would probably be way to dull to actually take time to write about. When I created this the other night I thought that maybe a simple journal would be ideal, something that I could rant to, toss ideas in etc.. My feeling on this blog is that I will be perhaps the only true reader of it, one strange thing about the internet is that while billed as a medium that brings us all together irregardless of social aspects that would keep most of us apart it is so big, so expansive and so impersonal most everyone tends to get lost, to fall between the cracks. Oh did I mention I have a tendency to over analyze even the most trivial things, well if you doubt this re-read the last paragraph.
Guess for this edition of the blog I will talk about the name of the URL, Something Eventual, I chatted (or rambled) about this a little in my previous (first) blog. It is in fact a bastardization of the name of the Stephen King book Everything’s Eventual. If you have not read this I highly recommend it, it is a collection of short stories in the vein of Four Past Midnight and Graveyard Shift. Like those it has some very, very strange stories. King I believe really lets his imagination fly more free in his short stories and the result is some stories that just leave you floored.
I would like to chat with King sometime, this is fairly unusual for me, I do not really have a desire to talk to any celebrities, or athletes. I am not what you would call a "fan boy" I think that hero worship is well, stupid. I can admire how well someone plays a game, I can admire how well they perform in front of a camera, but actually meeting them and falling over myself to tell them how great they are seems rather ridiculous. King though I would like to chat with. I think it would be great to sit down and just chat with him for a while, maybe have some coffee.
My favorite King book is without a doubt The Stand. If you haven't read this book then for the love of god go buy it and read it, not the edited version, the complete and unabridged one.
Until I find the time and the desire to write again I will see you in the funny papers..

Sunday, August 18, 2002

My first post, hmmm, this should be something clever, witty, and without spelling errors, uhh yeah.. I just finished reading about bloggers on MSNBC, so I figured I would try it out. I have read blogs in the past but never really thought about writing one until now, I think Jerry Seinfeld had a stand up routine that made light of things that seem to be a good idea late at night when your mind is tired and impressionable, I have a feeling that tomorrow this will be the equivalent of the guinsu knife for me.. Hey lets post some personal crap up on the internet for everyone to read..
Today I went over to a friends house, hung out and played video games, I'm 24 years old and still a kid. I remember summers wasted playing video games and just sitting around with friends, only difference now is that I don't have parents to tell me to get up and go outside.
I named this weblog Somethings Eventual, wanted the Everythings Eventual title but it was already taken. Really like the name of that book of short stories from Stephen King, don't like the "somethings" quites as much but think it's a more true statement.
Oh well, will find out in the morning if I should have just spent my night ordering the guinsu set of steak knives...