The Grand Experiment

Hello, everyone, and welcome. It's been a while.

Back in college, I started my own weblog, even before the term "blog" reached critical mass. Indeed, I still don't like the term "blog;" it sounds like someone vomiting. Have you ever seen the new Showtime show Californication? I love that show. In the first episode, someone said "blog," and wiped his hand over his mouth as he said it. Try it now.

I kept up the weblog for some time, but updates were intermittent. Some weeks would have a dozen posts, and other times I'd go for months without an update. I decided, quite recently, that something should be done about that. Then, at a party, I saw people crowding around a computer with Paul's writeup of the Oriole's crusing 30-3 loss against the Texas Rangers, totally enamored with his writing. Even people like me, who have no interest in baseball whatsoever, seemed to enjoy it. People liked my writing, and people like Paul's writing, but neither of us have the drive to maintain a weblog with any sort of regularity. And thus began the great experiment... the Superblog.

The idea is, we'll each push each other to keep it up. I can't let Paul be the star here any more than he would let me. We'll see how it goes.