Happy Birthday

30 years (*small inhalation of horror*) of taking it all in and biding my time.  For what, precisely?  For the perfect, golden idea to land in my head like a thunderbolt – was it Philip K. Dick who said that aliens had somehow altered his mind and implanted his best ideas with a laser?  That’s what I was waiting for.  I held up my end of the bargain by trying to build a half-decent vocabulary and learn basic syntax.  The Illuminati’s mind-penetrating Laser of Striking Insight never showed up, however, no doubt delayed by the collective paralysis and ongoing wave of self-immolations caused by Donald Trump.  Until they get back on track…

You get me.  Anonymous postings covering a range of subjects, few of them useful, by yet another Individual with Opinions.  I’ll try to avoid the usual self-indulgent garbage.  I’ll fail, but I’ll still try.  There will be no clickbait.  No reposts.  No inside jokes.  I won’t respond to your comments.  (I would say I won’t read your comments, but at some point I’m going to make a mistake.)  You can expect haphazard postings, some of which will be unfinished.  Even when they are finished, most will still be terrible.  But at this point, I feel like I don’t have any other choice.  I’ve been ingesting all this knowledge and analysis for so long, to what, hoard it?  Maybe that would be wiser, and no doubt more humble, but the potential futility of having consumed all this stuff only to be hit by a bus tomorrow has become, frankly, overwhelming.  No longer am I content to wander the vast library of human experience, nor even to scribble half-formed thoughts on the margins of those whose notes are worth reading – I’ve become enough of an arrogant shit to jot my crap down on a folded-up napkin and shove it between the dustiest books in the most sub-par section of the library (the internet) before fleeing into the night.  I don’t know how you found it.  Congratulations, felicitations, condolences.

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