The Best of Smith

That kind of strikes me as an arrogant title to use, but I think it's appropriate for the subject matter.  See, I'm a big fan of the Howard Stern Show, and whenever
Apopros of nothing, here's a picture of Kylie Minogue I found doing a google image search for "best of stern", trying to illustrate my point.
Apopros of nothing, here's a picture of Kylie Minogue I found doing a google image search for "best of stern", trying to illustrate my point.
they'd take vacation, the radio station wouldn't just air repeats of old shows, but compilations of the best moments from a whole lot of shows, all put together. This was called "The Best of Stern", and it struck me as a good apellation for recycled content.

Which brings me to this little project.  My blog, which you can find embedded on the front page of the little yellow room, is well over three years old.  I've written a lot of stuff in that time, and some of it I'm kind of proud of.  See, I know a lot of people blog, and of those bloggers, many are content to just jot down their thoughts or record day-to-day events.  Others seem to use the technology as an extended message board.  I do a lot of that myself, naturally, but to me, the point of having a public journal on the internet is to give people something to see.  So I try to make sure that most of my entries are funny, or thought provoking, or at least something, so that anyone on my friendslist will see it and get a little entertainment in between reading about annoying co-workers or memes.  Not that there's anything wrong with stories about work or quiz results--I do those all the time, too--but I hope that my extracurricular posts keep things more interesting. 

Of course, the downside to Livejournal is that if I should happen to write something cool, you're only going to be able to see it for a few days before it's bumped down by other posts.  It was about a year ago I finally figured out how to use the "Memories" function to organize my old entires by themes, but to me this still wasn't enough.  I wanted to be able to pick out my favorite pieces, and introduce them with a sentence or two before the link, so Joe Q. Reader would understand what I was talking about in 2002.  Also, doing it like this gives me a chance to clean up a few errors, like that one time I referred to Ernie Fletcher as a Senator instead of the U.S. Representative (R-KY).  Again, LJ lets you do that, but it's harder. 

Below, you'll find some of my rants and raves from years gone by, covering a variety of subjects from politics to candy to my own buttocks.  Actually, that last one comes up surprisingly often.  Well, at least try to enjoy as best you can. 

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