On Sunday, July the 21st, 2002, I was bored and on the internet...
I am 22, and marooned on the British equivalent of Alcatraz...the Isle of Wight.
My name is Stuart...and the story of how I came to be here is a long one...about 22 years long, in fact.
I'm really only wrting this because I'm curious about the concept of a weblog...I have random thoughts most of the time, so I expect I'lll be putting a fair amount on here.
Keep posted.
One year later, and I'm quite impressed with myself really...it's like looking back and realising that I've kept a New Year's resolution without trying.
I'm resisting the urge to do one of those birthday stock-takes that inevitably leave you feeling like you have wasted a whole year of your life and you should really get your life/shit/laundry together...and the feeling leaves you a few days later in exactly the same mood as you generally proceed through life only with a twinge of regret that you, when you put your hopeless ideals to one side and get right down to it, like living this way.
As Kurt Vonnegut famously wrote, 'We are put on this earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you any different.'.
I think I'm giving my ideals a bit of quality time at the moment, and I like that, but I am feeling the need to pencil some serious farting around time into my calendar, hence the book deadline.
Happy 1st Birthday to The Autoblography, and here's to a hopelessly ambitious further 100 years...
Blog Bifurcation
Incidentally, I've scrapped Books, because I realised that I listen to a hell of a lot of music and I want to review that too. I STILL couldn't think of a better name, so you're stuck with Reviews...
And it's goodnight from him...
So; with the first birthday posting done, I said I'd sign off for a while to focus on the booooook, and that's what I'm going to do.
Wish me luck, people.
(Please...) :-)
Addendum, 22nd July 2003: Browsing the news today and notice that the annual Key West Ernest Hemingway look-a-like competition took place yesterday ... because that was his birthday ... so The Autoblography shares it's birthday with one of my favourite writers ... and I would like to point out that this was entirely accidental!
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