Friday, 17 October 2008

• Who am I?

      I've never been featured. It's not because I'm a horrible writer, or because my posts are "un-featurable." It's because mine is one of the few Xanga pages keeping it real. If you want to get featured, which I'm sure everybody does (even me), check out Sam (wherethefishlives). He's been featured 56,304 times, so I'm pretty sure you'll be able to find, by his example, what sorts of posts are more likely to be featured. You'll notice that each sentence in any given post of Xanga's favorite aquatic residency is funnier and/or more interesting than the one before it, and that the blogs are long which makes each post an intensely interesting and wildly hilarious blog reading experience. It's posts like these that get featured. They're clever, they're sarcastic, they're hilarious, and the content is controversial, which brings about massive amounts of discussion. If you really think about it, mass discussion is what Xanga is all about, right?

      My Xanga site is far from sarcastic. Even further from hilarious. It's when I'm pushed beyond the limits of mere thought, and I need to sort out what's going on in my head that I come to Xanga. In my precollege years, when my thoughts began piling up too quickly I sat down at my computer, opened WordPad (remember those days?), and wrote each thought down as it came. Once I had emptied the jumbled mess of thought onto the screen in front of me, I began arranging it in a way that made sense to me, and would make sense to anyone who read it. Given how fast my mind attacks a subconsciously controversial idea, straightening out all that was before me was always a tedious task. It did, however, greatly and quickly develop my writing skill (not to mention my typing speed) into what it is today.

      That said, everything you'll see on my Xanga site is real. If I write something really long on some random, uninteresting subject it's because someone brought it up and I couldn't stop thinking about it. Writing is my "excessive thought" outlet. It's a means to empty my brain so I can get on with what I was doing when said thoughts came about. I don't use ridiculous antics or sarcasm or any other attention hooks because I'm not here to become some sort of online celebrity, an insanely over hyped title.

      Why am I writing this? Who knows. Probably because I'm fighting off the blissful feelings of having a few more comments, friends, subscribers, etc than ever before. Or maybe because I felt the need to address my readers as to why exactly my hilarious and sarcastic posts aren't really hilarious or sarcastic. I'm not trying to be funny, I'm not trying to gain attention or celebrity status. I'm here on business; to get some honest input from as many people as possible so that my knowledge base on any given subject might expand. As much as I'm here to make friends, and offer up input of my own, that's not really my main focus.

      My name is Josh, and this is my blog.

   

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