Yes, I’m here, blogging for Boomer because, well, I’m not sure why. Because everybody does it. If you’re drawing breath and not blogging these days, you’re just taking up space. But if you are blogging, then you’re taking up space AND blogging.

     Me, neither. But anyone involved with a publication is blogging these days – and by publication, we no longer mean just a newspaper or magazine but also lots of things that start with an E. Like e-zine and – well, I guess e-zine is the only one I can think of. No matter. People who run what are now called “print publications” – as opposed to mere “publications”, which is what they’ve always been – are concerned that if they don’t also have a big online “presence”, everybody’s going to die or something.

     Well, we are all going to die, but that was true even before the Internet.

     So everyone who can string nouns and verbs together is blogging. About what? It doesn’t seem to matter about what. Often it’s politics because they can whine endlessly, and I do mean endlessly, about one of two topics: 1) Barack Obama is so socialist, he’s going to ruin the country, or 2) Sarah Palin is so stupid, she’s going to ruin the country.

     Either way, we’re all going to die.

     But partisan politics is not our thing here at Boomer. So my once- or twice- or thrice-weekly blogs, in the rotation with those of Briana Easter and others, will probably have more to do with things Richmond.

     The sale of Ukrop’s, for instance. Or calling our baseball team The Flying Squirrels and its mascot Nutzy. (Really? They let 5^th graders do the naming?) Or offbeat stuff. Whatever. This spot is meant to offer a bit of fun a couple times a week. We’ll try not to do much whining.

     Except maybe about snow.

     I mean, haven’t we had a ton of the stuff? The snow has been a nightmare this year. It just won’t quit. It’s ruining our lives.

     We’re all going to die, you know.

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carolynhietala   |2010-06-08 05:57:24 Yes I too am tiring of whiners. Too often whining takes the form of attention getting drama. There certainly is beauty in life. Why overshadow it with constant frivolous negativity. Can't we smile at something? Hey snow looks super in photographs ;0) Carolyn

LynnMurphy   |2010-02-17 14:35:15 Great blog! Funny stuff and I agree with you , let's not talk about anymore snow.

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