Hello, Internet. Nice to see you looking so well.
How are you getting on? Lovely.
Should this blog come to anything and some curious person should go looking for the very first post, this is it. In all its glory. Hello, my friend, I assume you have to much time on your hands. As, obviously, do I.
For the record, let this be the testament of my current intentions with this blogging enterprise:
None. I have no idea what I'm doing, no plan for a theme, a tone, a preoccupation, a gimmick, or anything more relevant or worth reading than the other twelve million blogs by recently graduated arts students with an excess of opinions and deficiency of people willing to let them to rant uninterrupted about whatever topic is in their head today over a pint of non-big-brand beer in the local non-chain pub.
But hey, if it keeps me writing, which I enjoy, and I can share it with my friends, which I also enjoy, then it seems a good way to while away an hour every now and then.
The domain name is "extracts from the riot act", part of a line from the film In The Loop. Hopefully that tells you all you need to know about my trademark style: trying to be softly spoken and moderate about things that in all honesty I would love to be screaming my head off about, but can't quite muster the conviction. The character speaking it, hapless fence-sitting minister Simon Foster, is on a Shepard Fairey-Obama-Hope-style poster on my wall with another inspiring quotation: "I'm on the verge of taking a stand". I hope this blog will provide a similarly noble guiding light to its readers in tackling injustice, ignorance, and oppression.
Let the games begin.
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