Red Wheelbarrow

Hello world. Please stop whistling, it’s annoying.

March 21st, 2008

Welcome to Red Wheelbarrow, Mark II. My prior blog seemed to be trying to hard with pointless politics, and the occasional book review. I’m going to try to focus this new blog on just one thing - stopping tuneless, artless, whistling in our streets, buses, and homes. On second though, I think I will concentrate on creating a social networking site for trombonists who have gone into the IT industry but found themselves despondent at the lack of interest in literature and the arts in said industry. And how it can be cured through a project I’m tentatively calling LOLMargaretAtwood.

Perhaps instead I’ll focus like myopic human retina on whatever the news is reporting, adding my own outrage to the gummy stew-bowl of horrific metaphors. Or perhaps anecdotes from my childhood will enthrall readers. How I fell off my bike, part 17, is due out in August.

I could always get in on some blog memes, such as listing my 50 favourite foods that look like cat food if you squint. Such lists have the added advantage of allowing me to sleep whilst blogging. I could follow that up with an “ironic” look at all the people at Starbucks that day who are clearly more self-aggrandizing than me, and clearly worse writers, derived from an analysis of their drink orders.

The first rule of blogging I will set for myself is not to plan a path of such precision that it will never be followed. And also put up cat pictures sometimes.

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