Standing on the Verge of Getting it on

well, here we go again. I always wonder what drives me to start thinking I am going to do this blog thing properly. I always seem to think I am going to be dilligent and topical, and then after awhile I always get lazy and it fades away.

But for this new installment of the Brian Baker Blog, I decided to get more upscale, hence the move to this site. I also decided to come up with a different name, seeing as how I have an "Orgy of the Dumb" blog at both MySpace and Newsvine. It took a lot of thinking, but I glanced at a book on one of my shelves called The View from Nowhere, which is about one man's journey to find the perfect "Bar bar". So I figured it would be just as good as any other name, so here you are. I don't necessarily think I am someplace that is Nowhere, or that I have some great view from it, but it seems like a good enough theme to cover my various ideas and interests.

There is an amazing level of thought on my part that goes into what I write. I usually have things I want to say something about, that I think about in some detail, and how I feel about it. I often have a reason to get a certain element to come about that ends up sounding great in my head, but doesn't always come across on page as so fantastic.

I once was given an assignment to write a recap of the proceedings of an event for an online periodical. I attended, I gathered info and I sat down and wrote the thing. I don't do "drafts", I write something, look at it, change it around and I finish. Rarely do I ever go back and revise or edit. I'm self-editing as I go. But for some reason still unknown to me, it was never published. Maybe the woman who was the editor thought I was going to go back and change it or make some revelation later that I hadn't gotten to the first time. But without her feedback, I never knew what it was she was looking for. So I left it as is. I don't operate "by the book", never have. I learn the book and then I adapt my own interpretation. I make my own rules and then I break them. That's what a Professional does.


And that's what you should expect when you read things I write here.

I think I'll lead off with some stuff I've done in the not so distant past, just to get a bit of variety going. In most cases, what you see is what I wrote at the time, except for instances where I changed something due to the fact it was relevant then, not so much now.

So read on, and tell me what you think about what I think.

Res Ipsa Locquitor