Me and my blog, and why I named it what I did.

Hey all you people who aren't reading this. Ken the First here. I'm sure that some of you nonexistent readers are wondering who I am, why I feel I need a blog, and why I named it what I did.

First things first, this is who I am. I'm no one special really. I'm a young(ish) single man living in a reasonably large city in America's heartland and working for one of the few financial corporations that doesn't seem like it's about to go belly up any second these days. I enjoy a lot of mundane pastimes: Movies, Music, Games, TV, Sports, Anime, all the blase responses that people my age put into their "Interests" sections on their "social networking / thinly veiled porn ads" websites as though it's some huge revelation about their character that someone who grew up through the birth pangs of the Information age ended up liking all the most talked about topics the Internets has to offer.

Well, besides porn. Not many people announce their passionate devotion to pornography right in their "About me" unless they also shortly admit that they have been tugging their respective genitalia in front of a bunch of teenagers on the bus just for "Shits and Giggles". You know, the kind of folks that make you glad you own your own transport or at least wish you did?

And that rant right there leads nicely into the answer to my second question. Why a blog for this "Joe Six Pack?" Well, it can easily be said that I love to Debate and Pontificate. I love a good argument, not a fight mind you, there is a difference. But the truth is, in my workplace we have a constant feed of 24 hour news on All 12 hours of a regular shift. 12 Hours of 24 hour news is just enough to make you go Half crazy every day, it seems. By way of keeping myself as mentally stable as possible, since half the things I see on the "news" makes me wish I was a single celled organism and didn't have to contemplate the implications of the buffoonery I've witnessed, I tend to vent my frustrations on my co-workers.

After a while, I jokingly said that if I could get paid to bitch about things I wish I had the power to change, I would be sitting at home too busy counting my limitless wealth to give half a damn. That's when one of my coworkers said that I should start a blog. Now, I don't understand how a blog can make me disgustingly wealthy, unless there is a mysterious Blog-loving millionaire philanthropist out there reading blogs and saying things like "Yes, Ripping good Laugh!" before depositing a wad of cash that could flatten a moose in the author's new offshore account. But hey, I figure this way, my coworkers wont have to listen to my shit as often.

Now one last point, and the last question posed earlier in this very lengthy whatever-this-is. The name. Any fans of the Late, Great George Carlin probably already know where I stole the name from. George was famous for saying "I don't have Pet Peeves, I major Psychotic Fucking Hatreds." A great line, but also very poignant to my ears. The man never hated anything halfway, that's for sure, and I found that to be a very admirable way to conduct oneself. Refusing to passively pretend to accept the daily occurrences that make you want to scream deep down. That's what this is all about. I'm not about to pull any punches here. My insane rantings will step on toes, but much like Carlin, Pesci Rest his Soul, I intend to use this blog as a forum to voice my opinions. I don't think my opinions are more valuable than those of other people, I just can't be expected to prance around topics that might piss some people off just because a few folks out of who knows how many might be offended.

I don't accept the accepted definition of PC. Most people think it means Politically Correct, A term which screams "banality" to me.
To me, PC more can be more accurately defined as Personality Castration. I told you it wouldn't be all smiles and sunshine.

But anyway, I've written about all I care to, I'll be back later with notes about current events, probably some Movie Reviews, music news, and god knows what else, but it should be worth some Yuks, if not serious thought.

And we all know, all bloggers are in it for the Attention, even if it's in the form bewildered laughter or good old fashioned pity.

Be the Best Amoeba you can be,
K.1