I get to a certain point every time I start a blog (and there have been many: I am a blog ho), and that point is: why am I doing this? I don't really have anything interesting to say; I'm not really an interesting person. My spelling isn't fantastic (bless you, spellcheck) and my grammar is worse. I'm not really a fan of unburdening my soul, so it's not going to be a deep, insightful and soulful blog; I don't really do anything interesting, so it's not going to be a must-read blog. So..why? What is the compulsion that drives bloggers to share anything and everything through the impersonal medium of the internet? This is a question that plagues me. Do you know what some other questions that plague me are? Well if you don't I shall tell you.
1) Is Jodie Foster gay?
2) What is actually good for you anymore? A glass of wine a night helps stave off illness, but it also causes illness. Personally, I'll go for the glass of wine every time. I was always taught that a diet filled with everything in moderation was healthy, but what's healthy these days when even fresh food is covered in god knows what?
3) How do CDs and DVDs work? I know nothing about technology, but it kills me that I can have a flat disc in my hands and from it comes heart-breaking music...or a film, a whole film, with colour and sound and pictures and words and...how?
4) Who invented language? Who decided a tree was called a tree?
5) How do Firefly and Futurama get cancelled and yet shows that (in my opinion) are a little inferior get renewed?
and, most important:
6) Is The Princess Bride the real abridgement of a real book? And if so, can I go to the Fire Swamp?
Please, help if you can. A poor, confused (and currently sick) girl needs answers.
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3 comments:
1) Yes, but she is so intensely private about her personal life, she may never come out officially.
2) Broccoli.
3) See http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/cd.htm
4) Enough people made the same grunting sounds while pointing at the same thing and, voila. Language. I’m guessing.
5) The viewing public doesn’t always watch what it should.
6) Sadly, no. But wouldn’t it be nice to visit just for a bit.
1) Well, that's understandable. It's just one of those burning questions that it'd be really nice to have definite confirmation for, one way or the other.
2) Luckily, something I like.
3) Thank you for the link.
4) That sounds extremely plausible, and it's something I've often thought myself but again it's just one of those questions that I wish I had the answer for.
5) I agree.
6) Absolutely. It's such a shame you can't tour the zoo of death, nor stand on the top of the cliffs of insanity and picture the heroic duel between Wesley and Inigo.
Thank you for taking the time to put my mind at ease. Much appreciated.
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