Out of the Woodshed...

So here I am fretting over the recent "letting-alone" of our poor, neglected Let Your Mind Alone, when I realized this: I don't need to impress anyone with a bi-weekly serving of witty pop-ologies held together with the stellar logic and brilliant prose of true cosmopolitan. I've decided that blogs (this one at least) shouldn't be an exercise in self-vanity, nor are they particulary well-built for serious intellectual debate.

Honestly, I'm not really sure what purpose blogs (in general) and LYMA (in particular) should serve. I do think, however, that some of you here (i.e. Chris G.) have a better idea than I do. While I've mostly seen LYMA as a woodshed where I can swing my psuedo-intellectual axe, Chris G. and others seem to treat LYMA more as a "community" (for lack of a better word). I usually won't post unless I think I have a remotely originial idea or observation to lay down, which means that I don't post very often and that my posts are usually boring. Chris G. makes a post when he has ideas/observations (a la not getting kicked in the crotch), but also when he's found a cool new website, and when he wants to show off his new fish....actually, now that I look over the past few month's posts, Cinci-sheldon, Taylor and pretty much everyone but myself treats the blog that way, like a community. Hmmm.