Gosh

That's a heck of a way to start things off, Robert...but I like it. :-)

Roy, we'll take good blogging care of you. I've only been blogging for about seven months or so, but now that I've started I've done a ton of it. It's fun if you keep it focused*. I'm not too much into writing about myself that much, though, so I stick to links and interviews and posting other people's fiction.

So, in the spirit of the preceding paragraph, what is the primary purpose of this blog? To write about our thoughts and insights as we read our material? To brag about the fact that my one year old kid has already read Infinite Jest**? To discuss our research and our future careers as experts of our respective fields? To plot a small, but not insignificant, overthrow of the current Humanities regime at GSU and raise Proftoft*** as Supreme Commander of History and the other, lesser Humanities? I'm down with any of these things, actually, but I just want to make sure I'm using this blog correctly before I start wasting everyone's time with barely literate ramblings on my feelings about Hannah Arendt's On Violence or whether it would have been better to wait to make Super Mario Bros: The Movie until after CGI had been invented and made cost-effective.

Anyway, that's the word for now. See y'all next week or whenever we're meeting next.

P.S. Go USA! Down with the Redcoats!


*My focus has primarily been about the craft of writing.
**This is, of course, a joke, but if you follow the link you can see an awesome picture of my then-seven-month-old son looking suave next to a copy of Infinite Jest.
***I just made that up...I don't think anyone calls her that. In fact, it's probably better if no one speaks of this again.