Welcome.  One and all, welcome.

 
Please allow me to wallow in my own self-indulgance.

 
This site, Miscellaneous Assortment (or, if you want to use the cool shorthand, Misc.Asst.) is something that I thought of a few months ago, around the time I had attempted an all-out bulletin on MySpace and my main site, Black Marks on Wood Pulp, in an effort to get some of my friends blogging.

 
There was a lot of resistance.  Well, more specifically, there was a deafening silence; nothing came forth but a cavernous void.

 
There are reasons: maintaining a blog, while not a lot of work, is definitely a time commitment.  Once it has been designed it only takes a few minutes to write a post, throw it on the Internet, and sit back, ready to enjoy the feedback, but it’s the notion of being a consistent blogger that scares much of the public.

 
This, my friends, is what caused Misc.Asst. to form in my mind.  Here are the rules to posting on my blog:

1. You ask me.
2. You post occasionally (which means at least once every few weeks).
3. You know how to log in.
4. You have a name and can provide me a short bio.

 
Boom – you’re blogging.

 
I’ve got a few people lined up who will pop in here every once in a while.  The topics will be varied, and the authors will have little in common.  There will be guest bloggers occasionally, and there will be mundane things discussed quite often.  Still, that’s the idea.  It’s a miscellaneous assortment of some people I know.  There may not be much of a common thread, but I’m hoping it will keep everyone entertained.

 
Who knows what will happen with this?  It could be a rousing success, creating a well-needed niche (like, if we suddenly need more blogs about nothing) or it might flop because no one is willing to write on it.  It could be as important as Google, or it could be as lame as this first post.

 
I’m just hoping it will be somewhere in between.

 
Welcome.