some thoughts on the medium

so, i was going to do this thing where i looked up the current estimate of people in the world, then the estimate of how many of them had computers, then an estimate of how many of them had blogs, then compare that to the number of successful blogs... whatever. the whole thing was just going to boil down to this: everyone is insignificant. rather than trying to impress you with numbers, i'll just have you think about santa claus. there comes a point in every american child's life where they realize WHY santa claus is a rational impossibility, and i think we would all be better served as humans if we gave that moment a little more respect. it's entirely too strenuous a task to imagine all the people on the planet. once you acknowledge the existence of a person, you must then acknowledge that persons personality, his love affairs, his opinion on how fat children are these days - it's impossible. but in that one moment, when you realize exactly how much work it would take that well-dressed man to deliver toys to every child in the world, you get perhaps the best handle on the scope of JUST HOW MANY PEOPLE EXIST. what follows, of course, is a terrible moment of exasperated sadness. we don't want to live in a world where everyone is 95% "just like us," we want to be individuals. the best way to accomplish your dreams, after all, is to ignore all the people who dream of those very same things and will spend their whole lives trying to oust you from your position once you reach it. knowledge is a burden, compassion will get you nothing more than respect, and you don't get a mortgage application approved with respect.

but don't fret! it's possible to live in a world where you acknowledge how utterly meaningless you are and still have the motivation to get out of bed every day and work on whatever stupid thing it is that is your goal, your dream, your very life force! all you have to do is understand that people are more like you than you think. the reason we disagree so damned often is that we all want, at heart, the same things - comfort and satisfaction. there are a million slightly different routes to these constants, and that's where the internicine conflicts arise - and i'm not trying to knock conflict, as the world would be a much duller place without it - but at heart, we all just want to be happy. this is why i'm choosing to ignore the extreme Santa Claus Effect i felt when setting up this blog and moving forward with it anyway, because i know that no matter how many millions of people there are out there with opinions and keyboards and the impetus to get a blogger account, having my own will make me damned happy.

what follows will be a collection of crap my friends and i thought suitable for review. we hope you find it as suitable as we, but if not, you are free to color yourself unimpressed.

hugs and borderline inappropriate kisses,

CMI's imp