Wilos' Blog

What I will now write is somewhat of a disclaimer for this mutated beast of a “blog” that I created about a week ago (on a side note, how the hell did they come up with that name, anyway?). I had been out on the town, returned home, had had a few too many pops, and thought it would be funny to rip on people who are a tad too into themselves, as that is a pet peeve of mine (along with Princeton FluFest – citation to MPC). However, after some thought, sarcastically chastising others for behavior which, I’m sure, at one point or another, I myself have been guilty of becomes a) old and is b) probably unhealthy for my general outlook on life.

So, when my lazy ass gets around to it, I will try to change the name of this site to something along the lines of “Wilos’ Blog.” I must admit, I cannot take full (nor, for that matter, any) credit for this ingenious title, as it is similar to the name of a very amusing book that I received from a friend about a year ago (JDB). The book was entitled Rickles’ Book, and it was Don Rickles’, who happens to be, in my esteemed opinion, one of the funniest comedians around, autobiography. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrzJf334rXI&feature=fvw for a scene from the cult classic Dirty Work, wherein Rickles goes off on one of his patented rants.

Anyways, as I can only imagine you have no doubt realized, I tend to ramble a lot and go off on tangents before (and, sometimes, I don’t even get a chance to) I make my point, so I will try to get to it. This will be – if I have the willpower and commitment to write stuff down every once in a while – my blog, and I will write about random stuff. Hopefully the blog will take on some type of an identity (i.e. I will write about either specific things or broad topics), so for the meantime if you happen to be reading this, please bear with me.

Lastly, before I sign off and finish watching The Soloist (great uplifting movie by the way, with Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr.), I will close with one point. I am a firm believer that, in some ways, for a guy like me who happens to be gainfully unemployed, living in his parents basement, and currently lying on his sofa wearing a Mount Lebanon Women’s Lacrosse hoodie, writing a blog is quite narcissistic. I mean, after all, who am I to think that others care what I have to say about the tools that run around Nobadeer Beach in Nantucket? It’s one thing if you are doing something cool like living in Kenya for the year or teaching English in China, but I have little of interest outside of my own rambling thoughts and opinions.

So, please do not take this as a self-interested guy trying to write for the enjoyment of reading his own work (well, not 100%...). I see this as a forum for me to collect some of my jumbled thoughts on paper, keep in touch with my writing, and hopefully find out a little bit about what the hell is going on inside this weird little thing that one might call my brain. And, if I happen to elicit a laugh or two from friends, then all the better.

-Wilos

P.S. I realized that last part sounded a little too self righteous. I was the man in high school.