By request of some old friends, I've decided to start this up. What prevented me from blogging before was not really knowing what to blog about. I considered blogging writing, which would be fine if only I did more in the way of writing. I also considered blogging about social stuff, and I'm sure there's room for that at some point or another. Then I asked myself what kind of blog would a blogger blog if the blogger wanted to get blogging. Not really, that brand of logic would've gotten quite circular at some point. Unrelated, I also asked myself why the Three Musketeers run around with swords while the name would imply they fought with muskets.
At some point, I figured the best thing to talk about is something I like. On the basis of the title and a night of brainstorming, nerd stuff (in about every form it comes in) and literature (both read and written) seemed like a broad enough thing, and there'd probably be some of that other stuff mentioned above. Honestly, I'm just happy to be writing something.
The URL Pixels and Print was already taken, so i just shortened the conjunction "and" to the Guns n' Roses-esque conjunction "n'". I quite like n' anyway, it allows for something intense to be followed up by something equally intense but made chill. COWBOYS n' aliens... DUNGEONS n' dragons... SIMON n' Garfunkel... (doesn't really work for that last one). It's not like we're speaking a standard either. We're speaking English, not some uniform linguistic tradition passed down for millennia to define nationalities or social classes. Not something that is modified with scrutiny by colonial schoolmasters and an obsessive compulsive lexicographer. We all need to calm down, people.
Seriously though, why do the Three Musketeers have swords? I guess it takes a really long time to reload a musket and they aren't accurate enough for three and/or four guys to be standing in a straight line. Would really kill the suspense. Also, a title like The Three Fencers would probably be misunderstood to be about three agrarian nobles who are very much concerned with enclosure. Food for thought, I suppose.
Anyhow, I promise I'll come back with things I like that are more related to the blog. Saturday sounds fair enough, aye?
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