Ironic struggles
City of Progress March 5th, 2007
It has been a real struggle to generate my first post for bicoastalcurious.net. I feel obliged as the newly appointed west coast correspondent to add important perspective to this otherwise unilateral operation. I sat down at my office a few days ago and began to compose my first post and I was really foundering. My office-mate looked over at me noticing that I was not stewing over my normal suite of spreadsheets or graph and asked me what I was doing. I explained that I was writing an entry for a blog. He replied, “aren’t you supposed to just like sit down and write what comes to you..” He was born and raised in southern California, and he was right. I am the west coast correspondent, what was I doing? Using the thesaurus, checking my grammar, adding footnotes, fact-checking my sweeping generalizations…I spent 18 deformative years on the east coast but come to you today with a vow to curb my analytical and neurotic sensibilities and provide quasi-objective perspectives from the west coast.
Stay tuned for:
“The Civil War vs. The Mexican America War; an often overlooked comparison”
