My Blog About Blogs  

      In that this is is my first entry ever, I will discuss the very concept of a blog and its historical precedences.  I have been thinking about doing this for a few years now, and am finally getting around to it.

      NASCAR was over and nothing else on TV was anything I thought I would want to watch, at least not until 9:00 when "The Mentalist" comes on.  Creating this has actually been on my "to-do" list for the last few days, and I don't have any other writing projects due right now, so now is the perfect time to do it - to get "around to it."
      Why are they called blogs in the first place?  Blog is supposed to stand for "Web Log," but the first people who created them had a sudden bout of dyslexia and spelled "web" backwards (bew) and took the b and added it to the word "log."  Therefore it should really be hyphenated - "B'Log" like the name of some Jaffa or Goa'Uld.  It was either that or they thought that "W'Log" would be too hard to pronounce (which it is).  This is ironic though, because B'logs are read, and there is no need to pronounce anything, unless they wanted to tell their friends what they had created while they were playing Halo or Dungeons & Dragons or something, and then it would have still been just as confusing.  While trying to understand it all someone must have certainly lost a long standing player character to some 40th level monster of some kind.
      From what I have seen over the years this is an incorrect spelling.  It should be "Blah'g" (still with the Jaffa/Goa'Uld apostrophe).  Most Blah'gs are just that - somebody using up several MB of cyberspace to just say "Blah, blah, blah" about the most mundane things possible.  "My bunyans are almost as big as my great-grandfather's and I never even got my foot run over by an oxcart." or "I ate corn flakes today instead of oatmeal."  and "That girl in the office, ...blah, blah, ....blah."  They might as well just start all the headings with "Dear Diary."  It's a good thing that space is infinite, and cyberspace doubly so.
      Of course, then there are also "vlogs."  At least it's easier to pronounce than "w'log."  Video logs is what they are, and Youtube is full of them.  Nevertheless people insist on calling them "video blogs."  The bulk of them are also just a bunch of "Blah, blah, blah."  Therefore in keeping with the theme here they should be "V'blah'gs."
      The root origins of the blah'g (and the V'blah'g) go back to an era when men were made of a much stronger material than they are now (specifically they were made of wrought iron).  Men such as the great explorers of the North West Fur Company (NWCo) Jean-Baptiste Perot and Alexander MacKenzie would travel twenty miles a day by snowshoe, set up camp, cook supper (which often involved hunting it first), repair or make new shoes or moccasins (on the Lewis and Clark journey the men had to make new moccasins almost every other day), and then still find time to write in their journals.  Yes, people back then were literate - in fact they were very literate, and we've been going down hill ever since.  And never once in their journals did they write things like "TTYL, by4now, OMG, LOL, or LMAO."  They wrote in complete sentences, with good grammar, and had excellent handwriting. 
      They wrote about the things they encountered on their journeys, what landmarks they used to navigate, the types of food available in an area, the relations they had with various people groups they encountered, and even the social dynamics of the members of their party.  This was intended to be useful for the reader who may have intended to travel in these regions after them.  Their days were busy, and they had no time for "Blah, blah, blah."
      By the end of the following century the meaning of "journal" came to mean something more like a periodical, like a newspaper or a magazine, and the people who wrote articles for them became known as journalists.  In many of the paintings by the early cubists, such as Georges Braque, Juan Gris, and Picasso one can notice in their four dimensional still lifes an image of their favorite periodical simply titled "Le Journal." 
      Today there are a wide variety of subject matters for blah'gs.  There are political blogs (a veritable plethora of them), shopper blah'gs, travel blah'gs, religious blah'gs, history blogs, science blogs, and basically every subject you can imagine.  I was looking at some statistics and articles about blogs on line and was disappointed (but not surprised) that the most common blah'gs are various kinds of porn blah'gs, and those of the weirdest kind.  These "pervo-blah'gs are often gathering places for pedophiles to share images of underage girls (and boys) of which possession has been internationally banned by Interpol for decades.  Their sites get shut down, and the images pop up again on some new blah'g a short time later.  I think they need to go after the people in possession of these images first, then shut down the sites - but that is an entirely different blog entry.
      Behind the "pervo-blah'gs" for commonness are blahhh'gs for conspiracy theories and aliens (and these blah'gs are often one and the same.  Anti-government blah'gs are extremely popular too.  Many of these are also mixed together with alien and conspiracy stuff (crap [ from the Latin - crapus - shortened from bovocrapus ] ).  I wouldn't be surprised if somewhere out there, there are blogs that combine them all - underage lizard aliens with weird fetishes conspiring with the government. 

      My Blog will not be about things like that, nor will it ever be about blah'gs again.  I will cover a wide variety of subject matters.  There will definitely be articles about history, science, and the arts.  Sometimes there will be information useful for the historical reenactor - from clothing to cannons, and everything in between.  Sometimes there will be recipes; both historical and modern,  I will cover some new inventions and review some old ones.  There will also be articles/entries about various crafts, such as, woodworking, blacksmithing, leather working, leather tanning, fishing, hunting, guns, and maple sap collecting.   I will also include whacky observations from a whacky world.  This could be fun. 
      The Mentalist is coming on now.  Time to post this thing