Blogging - Modern Day

There was a time when I blogged prolificly. I had people subscribed to my blogs and comments would roll in immediately. Then I stopped. These blogs were posted on the infamous Myspace website; some day I might find the time to transfer these blogs to this venue.

As I've been blogging more lately, some of my friends at work have heard me state that I was going to 'blog' about something.

"What is this 'blogging' you speak of?" they would ask.

Naturally, I know where the term 'blog' is derived from and I explained this to them. Does not suffice.

"Ok. But why? What's the point of blogging?" they press.

At this I pause a moment longer than expected and I carefully plan out my onslaught of words to defend how I pass my time (not that I have much to pass, mind you) on the internet.

Eureka! I have my comeback. "Well, I blog because... well... I... will have to get back to you on that."

Great. So now instead of thinking of what to blog about next, I have to waste my time with a proper response for this nitwit who doesn't know why people blog! So, for the better part of the next 10 minutes after that conversation I thought to myself "How would you explain a blog? And, furthermore, how would you explain why people blog?"

And now my friends, sans the person I was having the aforementioned conversation with, I think I have come a (great) reason as to why people blog. Well, at least the reason why I blog -- and it's a damn good reason.

This blog that you are reading is not read by many. [[Who the hell am I trying to kid? I'm my number one fan. Sad. Moving on. This blog is not read by many, nor are thousands, perhaps millions, of blogs published each hour. And yet humans across the globe continue to post random thoughts on this thing we called the World Wide Web. But why?

At first I would have tried to compare a blog to a journal or diary. You remember those things right? Ryan Phillipe had a beautiful journal in Cruel Intentions which I was always jealous of. Even to this day I try to find a journal as beautiful -- and affordable! -- as that which he used. After further thought, however, a blog is nothing like a journal. Journals of the past were a private matter in which only you, your pen and your journal of choice were privy to. Blogs are different. If this were my journal I would publish it on a media that is accessible by almost everyone. So, to equate a blog to a journal or diary doesn't quite cut it for me.

And then it all started coming together. My book. My movie. My memoirs. ME.

BlabberingBobat.blogspot.com is the prequel to the movie that is going to be my life story -- which will be The Greatest Love Story Never Told (yup, that's right; that's the title right there). These blogs are me preparing with those damn voices in my head. You remember The Wonder Years -- honestly, I never cared for the show and never cared for Daniel Stern's voice, although Fred Savage played his role notably -- but that's it!

All of these postings by the original Bobat will be worth millions in a few years and will create the story for the movie they would want to make about me. Lest we forget about the New York Times Best Seller Autobiography I will undoubtly write, as well as the countless unauthorized biographies that will be published.

Here's to the voice-over in my head... err... here's to BLOGGING.

Wow. That was a whole bunch of useless blabbering. I think I wasted five minutes with this blog. I'll try again in the near future.