Saturday, November 7, 2009

the Oxpecker...

So here it is, my blog...a catchy name, a few cool pics, and my thoughts, opinions and rambling should propel me into Internet notoriety, right? (Note to self: possible in for Dancing With the Stars?? It doesn't seems to take much "celebrity" lately... but more on that later).

It started with the catchy name, actually someone elses - my Facebook friend and old schoolmate Eric Wiener. Eric recently started blogging and posting it on Facebook; turns out we share a love for an oh-so-fantastic new show on Fox, Glee. If you're reading this blog I'm sure you're aware by now of my Glee-love, so as you can imagine I was hooked on Eric's blog from the start...and I wanted to comment on his blog and let him know I enjoyed it and say "keep it up Eric Wiener!" (as he seemed so desperate for) but I couldn't...no blog account or Google account or whatever account was necessary to become a fan of "I Read it on the Bathroom Wall". And believe me, I was a fan - so the seeds of blogging were sewn.


But what to blog about? Well, I already share enough about my family, job, life with my 152 friends everyday on the afore-mentioned social networking site; and this being the whole entire Interweb I figured a little less openness is in order. Certainly I have opinions...on politics and pop culture and world events and whatnot...and it would be nice to voice those - but how to tie it all together??

And then it happened - right on my favorite twice-afore-mentioned social networking site - inspiration in the form of an obscure-reference status update "Weaver is an oxpecker between rhinos". Not only was it a perfect metaphor for my friend the Weaver (not to be confused with Wiener) and his long-standing job/city/girlfriend changing ways, but a catchy-quirky title for a blog that will probably hop around from topic to topic...picking my way through them all.


I'll start with an easy one that will let me test my new blog-building-video-linking skills, and maybe generate some traffic - the video speaks for itself. All I can say on this one is Oh my, Elizabeth Lambert, oh my goodness...



















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