That Friday Five Thing Again

1. Explain why you started to journal/blog. Well, my buddy JK, who I knew through Phoenix APA, had just gotten into blogging in a big (or at least, very enthusiastic) way. He'd started up his own blog, the recently (and sadly) defunct Trash Heap, and was looking into developing some Phoenix-related blogs. He was pretty vocal about encouraging the rest of us to give this blogger thing a try, and, like a sucker, I fell for it. I thought it might be interesting to have a place where I could jot down the random things I happened to be thinking about and people could actually come by and read them, if for some unfathomable reason they actually wanted to. I honestly never expected the experiment to be quite this... successful.

2. Do people you interact with day to day or family members know about your journal/blog? Why or why not? My sister and my dad stop by here on a more-or-less regular basis, I know. Other than that... Well, it's easy enough to find this place from my web page, and everybody knows about my web page, so probably. I don't think I've ever directly mentioned it to anyone in an actual voice-to-voice conversation, though (except for those two people that I already know read it). It's kinda weird... It's like I have an online life and an offline life, and I don't really tend to think about the two of them overlapping.

3. Do you have a theme for your journal/blog? Nah, "random wibblings" really does sum it up pretty well. If I had to stick a label on Maximum Verbosity, I'd probably refer to it as a personal/pop culture blog (as opposed to a political blog or a collection-of-neat-links blog, or whatever). Probably about half my posts have something to do with science fiction TV, so if you wanted to call that the theme of this blog, I probably wouldn't object too strenuously.

4. What direction would you like to have your journal/blog go in over the next year? You mean these things are supposed to have a direction?!

5. Pimp five of your favorite journals/blogs. Um... OK. Let's see:

The Memory Burns is well worth reading for Greta's Buffy discussions, if for nothing else.

Uncertain Principles is a wonderfully readable blog written by a physicist (he also talks about sports a lot, but nobody's perfect).

James Lileks' The Bleat is always worth reading, even when I don't agree with his politics.

Hellmouth News consists of links to Live Journals written in-character by various Buffy characters, which I still think is just too cool of an idea.

Tachyon TV Blog had a lot of interesting discussion about SF TV shows, but it seems to have gone stagnant at the moment.

Note that I've left out a lot of blogs that I visit on a daily basis and enjoy greatly: Amanda Peterson, The Beachboard Bramble, Curious Frog, Occasional Fish, The Soap Box, Thudfactor... I love ya all, guys!