Brandon introduced me to a new game, and since I asked him questions, it's only fair that I open the floor for him to reciprocate.
So, here's the rules -
Three questions, three answers. I'll try to be as honest as I can be within certain limits (no personally identifying info, questions relating to me and me only, etc, etc) Flippant questions will get flippant answers
So -
Ask away
[UPDATE]
Okay, so Brandon has the first set of questions:
Okay, here goes:
1) Why do you blog (I'd like to hear all of the reasons)?
2) What things do you respect about conservatives?
3) Do you swear as much in real life as you do online?
(Also, note, that there was nothing about secretions or discharge, and nowhere did I use the term 'moist'...until now.)
And so we have our first set of answers....
1) I blog for several reasons:
Ego
Ego
And yes, more ego.
When I was in high school I planned on majoring in English when I went off to college, and I spent a lot of time writing. It's a horrible cliche of course, but I wrote a lot of poetry during this period on all of the usual subjects: death, mostly, but sex cropped up quite a bit as well. As a side note, there are fewer things more mortifying then having your mother read something you'd left lying around entitled "Puppy Love" that ended with the line "And I guess that I must love you/ after all you make me hard". It's painful to read most of that now, but it gained me something I really enjoyed: attention.
But a funny thing happened on the way to my Pulitzer. I went into Computer Science instead of Journalism, and while I ended up doing a lot of writing, it was of the source code variety. I still had lots of ideas, but they never seemed to get on paper - it was always going to happen when I had time, or maybe next year. But next year kept coming, and nothing ever got written.
Until I discovered blogging.
And the payoff is still pretty much the same - the comments, the attention, the idea that people (for some rather small value of n) are reading something I wrote and some of them are liking it.
Now, I realize this doesn't paint a terribly pretty picture - I should be blogging to save the world or win souls or something useful - but if any of that happens it's secondary to my primary purpose of putting pen to paper: attention.
2) I'm going to have to think about this one....
3) It depends on the situation and context. Around the wife and kids, or people that it's inappropriate to use more colorful language around, my mouth is so clean you could practically eat out of it. In more casual situations, "on the boat", so to speak, I'm probably profane enough to make a trucker blush.
