For more than ten years, I have been writing essays that make my friends laugh. Most of them are short. Less than 1,500 words. Some are several pages long, and a few really solve some of the world’s problems in ten to twenty pages.
Life is rife with things that don’t make a lot of sense. I’ll see something ribald, do a little research, and start writing about it. I understand that the problem may be me and not the rest of the world. As my good friend, Bubba, in Keystone Heights tells me “You think weird.” So I’m off and writing about Ridiculous Laws, Fears and Phobias, Artificial Intelligence, Caffeine Addiction, whatever.
Historically, I have emailed these rants to a small group of friends. The primary criteria has been to send these to people who are not likely to suggest psychological testing for the author.
Over time, the distribution list has grown from five or six to forty or fifty friends. Email has become cumbersome. If you get an email that has forty recipients and half of them send insightful comments to everyone, it really junks up your inbox. Some of the recipients may not enjoy the essays. A lot of work may be required to self-archive the articles that you find particularly entertaining.
To streamline the distribution process and to pass control over to my friends who receive the essays, I am moving to a blogging format.
The articles and comments will be nicely archived on the blogging site. You can access the posts and make comments without all of the complications of “Reply All”. If you really enjoy a post, you can easily recommend the reading to any number of friends by forwarding the blog link.
You are not required to subscribe to the blog to read the essays. I hope to post a new blog every week on Wednesday morning. Simply input the link in your search engine and read the article.
Notably, I am not gathering information about the recipients or selling information about the recipients. I am not selling advertising. The blog is simply being used as a better tool to distribute the essays and organize all of your insightful comments.
Certainly, I would like to have readership in the 10 to 20 million range, eclipsing the late great Irma Bombeck. However, if this simply helps to organize communication with my 25 closest friends, that is perfectly fine.