A Beginning

So this is where I struggle.

How to begin?

It's a daunting task isn't it? I mean, a beginning sets the tone for everything to follow, everything that comes in its wake. And here it is. Just a slight ramble about the nature of beginnings... hardly worth reading, much less repeating. And once it's set down, like it is now, there's no going back. It's just there. Worthlessness on the page. Or the screen, as it happens.

And it isn't like I don't have anything to say. I mean, I'm constantly babbling. Honestly. Words just spill out of my head like drool from a baby. And there's nothing I don't have an opinion on. Name it. Politics? Sure. Music? Definitely. Comedy, literature, current events, ancient history, etymology, art, the inferiority of plays when compared to film, Spider-Man, giant squid, "Simpsons" trivia, the Mayans, Spike Jonze, conspiracy theories, modern bastardizations of folk and fairy tales, the name of the metal faced weapons expert from "G.I. Joe" (Destro, by the way), occult sciences and stop motion animation? Yep. I could write at length about any of those topics. But did I? No. I wrote about how I could write about them, thus sidestepping writing about anything at all, and proving my inability to focus on anything interesting whatsoever.

How are you enjoying it so far?

But, I suppose there's an upside to this. After all, once the beginning has begun, there's nothing you can really do to stop it. I mean, it's already started, and even if it ends here, it's still a beginning, and then, no matter what, I've got it out of the way. And that's a nice feeling. So I dread how to start it... but now it's started. And sure, I may cringe when I look back and see that this, this load of drivel is what kicks off what I'm certain will be an illustrious and wholly popular foray into the insanely cluttered world of internet babblery, but it's there, set down in black and white, saved on some stranger's server for the entire world to see.

Huh.

So, yes, this is my blog. The Manta Ray Taste X-Plosion. And it's just begun, so please cut it some slack. I swear it'll get better from here on.

I mean, really, could it get much worse?