There's many things of great importance to the scientific and literary world that I could write in my blog. But I leave the intellectual stuff to Calvin and Hobbes.

"Here's some interesting blog lore you might not have known. The first known blog was started by a college student at a small school in Belfast in 1997. While working on a paper, drinking an ale, and listening to U2, the student started writing down random thoughts that had occurred to him throughout the day. After two more ales, he decided to post them to the internet. No one read what he wrote and he promptly forgot about it.

Four years went by. Blogging went big. In fact, blog hosting became a lucrative form of capitalist exploitation. The student (now a graduate student in the eastern United States majoring in organizing peace protests) received an email from a friend with a blog link. He looked at the link, remembered his earlier ramblings, and wished he still had access to a cheap pint of ale so he could start another blog of his own."

Doesn't that sound like a real blogging story to you? I particular like the random rambling involving lots of college campuses, capitalist oppression, and alcohol - a longer version of this would get rave reviews from the NY Times. In fact, I'll make up the review as Iwould like it done.

"Mr. Bigger writes with all of the poignancy of a sinking ship with no life rafts. His insight into humanity and the underground culture of blogging is keenly sympathetic to the human plight of the blogging community. Characters, their hopes and dreams, philosophy and daily lives, come alive through the surreal imagination of a new word artist of the literary scene. His book will soon be in use as coasters on coffee tables everywhere."