1) Other people: You know the ones I mean. They feel they're doing internet users everywhere an immense service by sharing the minutae of their daily lives. Twitter is bad enough, with it's "I just read an entire novel on the toilet and now I have an imprint of the toilet seat on my ass" style postings, but at least you're limited to 16-words of pain. This, coupled with the fact that their lack of self-awareness makes them think their every sentence is literary plutonium (that's right, more valuable than gold), makes me cringe when I read their quip vomit. (Quip vomit: An ailment experienced by people such as Kanye West, who experience the sudden and irrepressible urge to spew out their invaluable opinions, OFTEN IN CAPS-LOCK LIKE THIS.) The blog, when in the hands of quip vomiters, becomes a shrine to ME ME ME. I'm thinking of you, person who went overseas for the first time in his or her life and somehow absorbed all the cultures of every place everywhere by visiting one European city and needs to shout it from the rooftops.
2) I'm scared that I will become one of those people.
3) I'm scared that I already am one of those people.
4) I had another blog, but I hated it.
5) This list.
But WAIT! Reasons that I embarked on this blog thing.
1) Other people: Other people's blogs can be amazingly wonderful. A couple examples; http://www.iamjudgmental.blogspot.com, http://therealmofexcess.tumblr.com/, http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/, http://www.moteldemoka.com, http://ny.eater.com/, to name a few. (I know the first two personally, if that has any effect on how much you like me)
2) Unemployment: I need something to prevent the sweet cloak of insanity from covering me forever.
3) Must offload the many observations about my cat without risking my friends knowing for certain that I am indeed a crazy cat lady.
4) Blog is an amusing word.
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