Begin the beguine...

[mapsedge]

No clue. That was my response when my wife asked me why I'd signed up for LiveJournal. I'm not a joiner, as a rule, and, with a few notable exceptions, hate reading journals. I came across one yesterday, just randomly browsing, written by a (presumably) high-school age female. Jeezus H. Kee-r-I-st, don't we teach our kids how to write anymore? By fourth grade I could spell, write in complete sentences, and knew the proper use of a semi-colon for God's sake, but this young woman could barely construct a coherent thought let alone be bothered with punctuation. I mean, I'm all for "stream of consciousness" and all that happy horse shit, but I've never had my consciousness fucked up so badly that the stream looked more like the waste outlet for a hair-treatment chemicals plant than an actual flow of ideas.

e e cummings got away with it, darlin'. You just sound like a moron.

Maybe that's what this journal will be good for. A place to pile on the rants that my wife doesn't want to listen to anymore, which, in spite of how it sounds, is not in and of itself, in fact, a rant. Merely an observation.

Comments

[rougewench.livejournal.com]

Welcome to LJ-Land, my dear. It is a place populated by a large number of very young people, who type like those who learned to by doing Instant Messaging.

You will find the odd intelligent person here or there and over time, you may or may not choose to add them to your friends list and read them.

This is however, a good venue for exactly what you describe, but also an interesting peek into the minds of those you know. And most certainly a way to keep up with people you dig, but see rarely.

Looking forward to what might emerge from yours given the venue.


D.

[eacole72.livejournal.com]

Hey there! :)

I've decided that my journal is for whatever I want it to be for. It might be rants about work, about something that has upset me, or something that brightened my day. For that matter, it might be a stream of consciousness brainstorm that I manage to edit into something coherent.

I do friends-lock a lot of my posts, particularly about work (a few of those even get marked as "private", for me only). The world-at-large doesn't really need to know about them.

[hurricanedeck.livejournal.com]

Welcome! It's good to see you here since I'm not able to see you elsewhere.

Rebekah

[dormer.livejournal.com]

Welcome welcome welcome!!! I'm so happy you've joined the addiction. :)

Missed you!!!!