Thursday, March 26, 2015

I'll give a quick rundown about what I'm envisioning for this blogspot.  Hopefully it will go on beyond the initial post.  

I've been between jobs for about a week now, and for me that is when the sitting around really begins to gnaw and you feel like you've got to do something slightly productive.  All of the sitting around between temporary gigs turns me into a larger consumer of news and media and presentation than I normally am, and watching and listening inevitably leads to questions for me.  Those questions are generally of a pretty small nature, and typically are fueled by comparisons.  I figured if those questions arise, and I've got the time, why not try to type out a couple of sentences on the question.  I'm going to primarily focus on media and government type things, but I don't think I'm a real partisan individual.  I'll try to be coherent and come to a logical conclusion on the question that is posed.  The first post is mostly based on feel, on other posts I may try to have it be more research based.  I may try to pose a question at the end of a piece to see what others think, but for a lot of that stuff we'll just have to take it as it goes.  

Oh, and for the name, it was available, which is a great start.  Also, I'm not trying to have this thing be super serious, it's more of something to do.  So, in that vein, one of my favorite commercials of all time is the Peter O'Toole stuffed-crust pizza advertisement for Pizza Hut.  Peter is reciting Hamlet perfectly while holding a slice of pizza, "...That is the question.  Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer...", when the director yells cut and directs Peter to do it backward.  Peter obliges and begins "Question is that...", of course the director wanted the pizza backward, but I always really liked that line.  Also, if it doesn't last, my brother saw that the initials are QuIT, which was a pretty clever find and provides a ready excuse if I run out of ideas to post.

Thanks for reading.  

2 comments:

  1. This is good stuff, Mark. You express the 'everyman' rationality of your point-of-view very genuinely, and that resonates with me as a reader. Screw the cutting the fat for now--just keep posting your thoughts!

    -David

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  2. This was supposed to go under your TV news disclaimer post, but it didn't, so...pretend its over there.

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