Foul Papers

You know what a good way to start a blog is? Calling attention to the fact that you’re starting a blog.

I really have no knowledge of what the ideal blog hosting service is, and according to the always reliable Wikipedia what I’m technically doing is microblogging. Does that mean when I’m talking with other bloggers at fancy dinner parties (as they are wont to host) I have to introduce myself as a “microblogger”? How embarrassing. Five sentences into my first post and I already feel like I’m sitting at the kids’ table at Blogger Christmas.

So why use Tumblr at all? Well, this. See, I really like the name “Foul Papers.” And it’s not like I can email the guy and go “Hey brospeh, since you haven’t updated your blog in over two years and have presumably given up on your writing dreams, maybe I could just… have your URL? Or you could just give me your log in information and pass the mantle onto me for the two months I’ll actually use the thing.” I mean, it doesn’t really work like that. I suppose I could have come up with a work-around name like “Fowl Papers,” but I’ll leave that one open to the erudite poultry farmers who moonlight as authors. (By the way, if any of you farmer-authors are out there, here’s a title for a children’s book you may want to write: The Salad Years of Chicken Caesar. That one’s on me.)

Of course, my love for the “Foul Papers” name is probably going to lead to frustration somewhere down the line. After all, I’m competing with this professional looking thing too. And I can only imagine that some university student will stumble upon this (micro)blog in the midst of an all-nighter, expecting a discourse on the working drafts of English Renaissance drama and instead wind up getting a tongue-in-cheek rant about my confusion as to why the spines of the 30 Rock DVDs don’t line up.

NBC Universal, how did this happen?

But never mind all of that. This should be fun. Microfun.