This is barely worth reading.

This is the first post of a blog of utter inconsequence. It may also be the last post. It may not even be a post at all, should I succumb to any of the enticements that surround me before finishing this meager paragraph. A (very) little about myself: I am an aspiring writer, which is to say that I am the exclusive reader of my own work. But one doesn't become a writer without writing; ergo, this blog.

I will write about music, movies, books, and politics - about which I am passionate - and television - from whose grip I cannot escape. And sports, I suppose. And perhaps videogames. Or video games, as it were. And food. You get the idea; this blog will be as unfocused and disorganized as is to be expected of someone who watched Teletubbies well into college, and not even while high. I may also one day post, or link to, some of the short stories I've written; should the prospect of any sort of remuneration for a particular piece of writing finally expire, then it will be made available to you, the blog reader. What is the Internet, after all, if not a clearing-house for all the thoughts in the world that arern't cumulatively worth a penny?

I have chosen the name Credible Threat for myself because this is the Internet and that is what people do. Anonymity is awesome! Genuine human interaction is for suckers! The name is, I suppose, ironic, since I am remarkably non-threatening (weighing in under 130 lbs.; this is the Internet, after all), and am wholly without credibility (lacking any sort of reputation, body of work, or even a first and last name).

Anyway, as I write this, I'm listening to the latest Ben Harper album, Both Sides of the Gun, for the first time. It's pretty good so far. It's a double album, one half all acoustic and mellow, the other less so. The artwork is split between a black half and a white half. The dilemma I face is that the white disc corresponds to the black lyric book, and vice versa. So, do I put the white disc and black book in the white half or black half of the packaging? Do I put all the white pieces in the white half and the black pieces in the black half? Do I put the first disc and book on the left? These are the sorts of things that trouble me; I'm sure this says something about me, and I doubt that it's positive. I wouldn't have these kinds of problems if I had an iPod, I suppose.

Hey, maybe that would be a good idea for a post: why I don't have an iPod. I'm sure many (read: not any) people would love to read that, right? This is where, in normal conversation, you would say to me, resoundingly, "No." But this is the Internet. There is no interaction and, therefore, no dampening of spirits. Every utterance presumptively overestimates its own worth. So maybe I will one day write about why I don't have an iPod. It will be unintersting; no one will read it; and I will bask in the self-satisfaction of having written for such a large hypothetical audience.

Okay, I think those are enough words for now. I'm really only writing this post so that the blog will actually exist and I can look at it and hate that it exists. (Side note: The number of times I have typed the word "blog" in writing this is alarming. This has to be one of my least favorite neologisms, right up there with "podcast" and "WMD.") Thank you for having read this far; and for each subsequent visit that you will make to this unremarkable corner of the Internet; and for telling your friends; and, if you hold a position of some authority in a transnational media conglomerate, for extending a lucrative job offer to me. I am mulling it over. I am weighing my options. I'll get back to you soon.