Ya know when I first began this blogging schtick over a year ago (that’s right, this is not my first trip down this lonely path) I convinced myself with utmost sincerity that my blog would be a vehicle for grand, sweeping statements. Unused to the public attention, I took this global podium seriously. Too seriously. Only after maintaining that blog for a few months did I realize just how isolated and barren this podium could be…especially when you consider there are literally millions of other podiums populating the barren wasteland.
When looking back at that blog it’s hilarious to see just how seriously I took myself. I depended primarily on links for my material, with a heavy emphasis on news items. I attempted to stir up fiery political discourse. However, I realized over time that the most mundane and ordinary daily life was potentially great blog fodder if it was presented and written well. I learned that the most ordinary and insignificant (let’s face it, we all…) lives, injected with a unique dose of humor and fresh viewpoint, can be rendered entertaining and readable to the masses.
One such blog which I found linked through Roissy in DC is Jack Goes Forth written by “the blogging bartender.”
There is nothing politically groundbreaking or internationally politically upheaval-causing about this blog…it basically is a blog about the daily adventures of Jack Lauterback, a bartender in Richmond, Virginia, whose bartending sojourns have earned him a column at Style Weekly, an alternative Richmond web “paper.”
He is able to take a daily existence that might not seem otherwise noteworthy and injects it with an awesome dose of addictive originality…and voila, you have a Seinfeldian Blog About Nothing.
I think you cannot discount the power and importance of such blogs in this day and age of big flashy current events blogs employing staffs of writers and commentators. Blogs ultimately are the collective voice of the silenced masses…and it’s only through the open and widespread expression of “regular” people that blogdom will reach its maturity.