A Blog For Two Andrews

Alright kids, it's time to plunge headlong into the blogging world. I don't know exactly where we're going, but the only way to get anywhere is to go, so let's do just that.

About a month ago, Andrew Timm informed me that I had not posted a blog in quite some time. I was quite aware of this little fact, but I also figured no one really cared either, so I would just get around to it when I felt like it. Truth be told, it was encouraging to know that someone out there actually wanted to hear more of what I have to say, whatever that may be, so I vowed to write a new blog as soon as I got the inspiration.

Well, inspiration is in short supply these days, so since then I haven't actually posted anything. I mulled a few possibilities, but nothing ever seemed to really amount to all that much, so I never made any formal attempts at blogging. And then, after several terrible games of Starcraft 2 with Andrew Clark, I suddenly felt almost inspired. It was then that I realized that my inspiration, as I've said before, does not actually come from dealing with girls, it comes from being pissed off (I just usually happen to get pissed off as a by-product of dealing with girls). Andrew informed me following those games that he was going to post a blog, and encouraged me to do so as well. Thus, the smoldering ashes of Starcraft defeat have been reignited by the coals of indignance and have burst forth into the glorious flame of bloggery.

If you recall, last year I posted a Deleted Scenes blog; a collection of drafts that, for whatever reason, I didn't feel were good enough to actually be posted as or in a blog. I did enjoy reflecting on what I had written in those drafts, and I plan to do that again this year for all the drafts I saved over the last year. Funny thing is, while I didn't actually post that often, I saved a bunch of drafts (16, for the record, though a few of them are just titles without any body), and a lot of them are pretty well developed. I'm not gonna get into that now, but I promise you, dear readers, I will post them sometime in the future.

You know, I've encountered some reasonably good fortune lately. Nothing huge, just little things that make me happy... which makes me a little uneasy, frankly. I get the feeling that I'm on the precipice of some Great Disaster. Maybe it's just the season... we are in that nebulous early September void of not-quite-summer-but-not-quite-fall, and I've never been a fan of this time of year. Still, when things go reasonably well for long enough, you start to wonder when everything is gonna explode. I just hope it waits till after the Scars of Mirrodin prerelease this weekend.

I'm getting a little sick of OK Go and their gimmicky music videos. The treadmill thing was cool and innovative, and then they one-upped themselves with that Rube Goldberg machine video, but the song for that video wasn't even particularly good. Now they've got some thing with buckets and dogs doing tricks or something... the novelty of your novelty music videos is starting to wear off, guys. I feel like you're grasping at straws here. Just make a normal music video for once. You can do something cool, creative, and funny without making it look like a talent show audition. Maybe, I dunno, try and tell a story. That's the beauty of the music video format; you can use the song to provide the backdrop for a visual story, or use the video to illustrate the story of the song. I feel like doing stupid human (or pet) tricks with a song playing in the background is almost a waste of space. So there's my two cents on that.

This may be nothing more than a placeholder blog until I can get something real going, but I said I was gonna let this blog write itself, and that's exactly what I did. I hear that's what professional authors do too, and now you know exactly why I'm not a professional author. At any rate, I hope you enjoyed this little nugget, and just remember: if you want me to post something here, just pester me about it. I'll get it done eventually.