View From the Bushes

If you've been following the discussion, and according to the webserver logs, there is at least one person somewhere in Southeast Asia who is a devoted fan (though maybe he's just harvesting my e-mail address so he can start sending me porn spam), then you'll remember that this is supposed to be a break from the other stuff I have to do to keep the site running. As you'll recall from yesterday, I wanted to be a writer, though for many years I didn't actually like to write. I gradually did get to the point where I enjoyed writing which is why doing "View from the Bushes" is a break.

Some styles of writing I have quite a bit of experience with: lovelorn letters to girls who find me repulsive, crazy demands to high-ranking government officials, critical Freudian dissections of novels I've only read the first 20 pages of, and line after line of barely functioning Perl code, but blogging is something I admit to being something of a novice at. According to one of my favorite blogger/columnists, Andrew Sullivan, in an article in Wired blogs are to words what Napster was to music. (Actually, he said "Blogger could be to words what Napster was to music", but I was close enough).

So that, of course, is what "View from the Bushes" is all about: seizing the means of production, starting the revolution, putting the "Man" out of business, and empowering the lumpen proletariat to create a worker's paradise... Yeah right...

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero,
Ross