Alas, it is only my second post, and I have already abandoned my original plan to title every post with a line from Aladdin. All is not completely lost, because this title is a line from a movie that I find more entertaining than I probably should.
I have been thinking of a great and important subject for my second post, but I cannot decide what the purpose of a blog is. As I mentioned last time, I would like to win many prizes with this blog. At trivia I was talking with my friends, and we somehow wondered if a blog could win a Pulitzer Prize. I have continued wondering exactly what a blog is for. I could use it to vent my personal frustrations, hoping no one would read my most personal thoughts. That would make it more like a diary, and if that is the case, I should probably just get a diary so I can hide it under my bed. I could also use it to vent my most personal thoughts secretly hoping people will read the blog, or I could just be an exhibitionist, wanting everyone to see how strange and great I am. While the ability to expose myself without the risk of a fine or jail time is comforting, I want my blog to be something else.
While looking at the no doubt factually accurate Wikepedia page on the Pulitzer Prize, I discovered that online-only news can qualify for a prize. There is also a category for commentary. I think I can win one of those. Lord knows my Brendan Frasier-like good looks and firsthand knowledge of gin will help me in my quest!
I would like this blog to hopefully stimulate conversation on subjects I find interesting among my hopefully growing readership (I am calling you out, Beth). If I hope to graduate to the editorial prize, I must be able to "influence public opinion in what [I] conceive to be the right direction." Therefore, I would like you all to disagree with me from time to time so I can then convince you of the correct way to see things. Now that all of that is out of the way, we can get back to the business of blogging.
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