A Fresh Start

Why a new blog?  Why not? The Internet is full of blogs no one reads, and there seems to be room for countless more.  The main point of this one, though, is to serve as a broader platform for the posts that I think about but never write.  As it is now, I think about posting on my other blog ("A Film Journal") all the time, but never quite get around to it.  Many of those thought-but-not-written posts have nothing to do with movies, which gives me the excuse of "it's not really about film, so I can't put it on my blog".  This blog negates that excuse, but I'm sure I'll come up with a better one soon.

I have a couple of specific projects in mind for this forum.  This first is an account of cooking my way through the Good Eats TV series.  Yes, it's a blatant rip off of that "Julie and Julia" movie.  But I'm a fan of that Alton Brown guy, and I recently acquired the show's companion books that have recipes from each episode and plans for all the cool contraptions he makes.  So I'm hoping to do at least a weekly post on a new Good Eats "application".

The second is much less ambitious.  Since I got an HD Radio in my truck, I've been listening to a lot of Classic Country music.  I can't get enough of 93.7's HD2 channel.  It's mostly 70s and 80s stuff, with some older and newer classics thrown in.  It's a great mix of really good songs and absurd gimmicks that made country music what it is today.  Pretty much every morning on the way to work, I hear a lyric that makes me think, "That needs to go on a blog somewhere under the heading 'What I Learned from Classic Country Music'".  So, prepare yourself for that.

Enjoy!