There's Nothing New

I thought that I had them over a barrel. I thought that finally, for all of the sensationalistic "news" programming emanating from their Ted Turner endorsed minds, I had CNN right where I wanted them.

Towards the end of last year I started seeing a segment on CNN called "What the...?" during the noon time broadcast by Kyra What's-her-name. At first it merely annoyed me, as I had than name for my website since February of last year. Not that it's a domain that I bought, but it was my original idea. Here was this shiny, pre-packaged, cheap tabloid on cable television flaunting my idea like it was theirs.

Oh, I would make them pay...oh yes I would.

First I would give them enough rope, then I would let them dangle by the neck with all of the proffered slack. I sent a "courtesy" email stating that I had just noticed the segment, and asking how long it had been on the air. I cackled as I pressed anticipating the response. I was sure they would admit to 6 months or so...and then I would spring into action.

They came back with the answer that Kyra Bottled-red-hair had been doing the segment for about 5 years. I came up from my pouncing position long enough to scratch my head in perplexed. 5 years...huh? Then I grew incensed again. I wouldn't take their word for it. No, I went to the foremost authority on useless informational crap. I went to the internet and searched on "What the...?" to see what it had to say:


What the...?

A virus?

I have to say that it wasn't what I wanted to see. I've been called some not-so-great things in my life, but saying that my website is viral...it's actually kind of cool.

But no, that couldn't be it. I would have vindication! I entered the security password...a couple of times because they are hard to read...and finally came up with the results that made me feel all room temperature inside:



The closest that I came to was a band that had been around for longer than I have drawn breath, and a Marvel comic parody that I can't recall ever hearing about (which is odd, I should have known about the comic book thing...)

So, my righteous anger petered out to a slightly gassy sensation. I put away my barrel (no one would go over it this day), and I decided that there was nothing new under the sun. Since Solomon coined that phrase about 5,000 years ago in the book Proverbs (probably paraphrased by the time he said it), I felt the need to give it my own spin. I like astronomy, I would come up with something new-ish under this sun, or one of the visible planets between Earth and the sun.

So, to sum up:

1. Still not a fan of CNN
2. Kyra stole from others, not me
3. If it's not new under the sun...it's just as old under Venus.

So here is the inaugrial blog for my newly dubbed website...which I still refuse to pay to call my own.

Where to Blog

Yeah, so not my first spot in which to blog. I have a Myspace account...but I get a lot of Myspace trash sent to me. I have a Yahoo 360 that I really enjoyed...but apparently that is going away. I have a need to blog. Where to go to blog? How can I pass up the madness and just BLOG?

Blog.

I like that word. It's not a funny as Gugennheim...but who would visit the Blog Museum? I have chosen this as my blogspot. This is the place for me. I plan on VLOGGING someday (which sounds like an eastern block blog. It's not, but I am just not yet set up for a video blog at this juncture.)

So this is just an introduction. This serves as a starting point from which to spring my blog onto the world. From here you will learn the answers to such questions as:

What's my favorite pasta...?
Who makes me happy...?
Who do I make happy...?
Have I ever climbed that yellow tower at I-25 and Broadway...?
and the ever pressing:
Why Maddog Salamander?

Hold on to your toupee, here we go...