Hello all.

Not sure if most of you know me or not, but my name is Eric and I will be writing here every Tuesday until the sun burns out (please allow me one or two tuesdays off though as i may need surgery or possibly become a vegetable).

Today is the boring “let’s get started” one, but you can be sure that all Tuesdays hereafter will be filled with excitement. I’m sure I’ll just write about random things that piss me off or make me happy. These could include such topics as: sports, 24 (note the Tuesday slot that makes this easier), music, idiots, and, most importantly, myself! Just whatever i want.

For example, today I thought of writing about 24, specifically, have you noticed how much weight Edgar put on? He was big before but shit, man, he’s doubled! I think the loss of his mother compounded with his secret (even to us) love for Chloe has been too much and he’s found food, again.

I thought about writing that, but then I decided not to, even though I kinda did anyway.

Wow, this is gonna be fun to read isn’t it?
Anyone?
Well, whatever. It’s hard to say what I’ll write about next Tuesday. I’m sure, though, it’ll be at least a little more coherent than this. It’ll also be exciting and scary. And important! As my friend Jimmy Pineapple would say, ‘case-fucking-closed!’

If you get that, we can be friends. If you don’t, we can still be friends, but yer gonna need some good ol’ education on the subject.

Wait impatiently for seven days,
Eric
Scientific but my reflex gangsta

Welcome.  One and all, welcome.

 
Please allow me to wallow in my own self-indulgance.

 
This site, Miscellaneous Assortment (or, if you want to use the cool shorthand, Misc.Asst.) is something that I thought of a few months ago, around the time I had attempted an all-out bulletin on MySpace and my main site, Black Marks on Wood Pulp, in an effort to get some of my friends blogging.

 
There was a lot of resistance.  Well, more specifically, there was a deafening silence; nothing came forth but a cavernous void.

 
There are reasons: maintaining a blog, while not a lot of work, is definitely a time commitment.  Once it has been designed it only takes a few minutes to write a post, throw it on the Internet, and sit back, ready to enjoy the feedback, but it’s the notion of being a consistent blogger that scares much of the public.

 
This, my friends, is what caused Misc.Asst. to form in my mind.  Here are the rules to posting on my blog:

1. You ask me.
2. You post occasionally (which means at least once every few weeks).
3. You know how to log in.
4. You have a name and can provide me a short bio.

 
Boom – you’re blogging.

 
I’ve got a few people lined up who will pop in here every once in a while.  The topics will be varied, and the authors will have little in common.  There will be guest bloggers occasionally, and there will be mundane things discussed quite often.  Still, that’s the idea.  It’s a miscellaneous assortment of some people I know.  There may not be much of a common thread, but I’m hoping it will keep everyone entertained.

 
Who knows what will happen with this?  It could be a rousing success, creating a well-needed niche (like, if we suddenly need more blogs about nothing) or it might flop because no one is willing to write on it.  It could be as important as Google, or it could be as lame as this first post.

 
I’m just hoping it will be somewhere in between.

 
Welcome.