Statement of Principles
When Charles Foster Kane took control of his first newspaper in Citizen Kane he wrote a "Statement of Principles". By the end of the movie his principles lay in tatters not seen since I last cleaned out my sock drawer some twenty years ago.
But there are few principles to blogging as far as I can tell. Don't make stuff up is a pretty good principle, although Scott Ott, and others, do that all the time to great effect. Be personal is another good principle, but lately every candidate for President seems to think that because they have a blog they are, somehow, being personal.
Well I'm not as funny as Ott and I'm not a candidate for President, and the blogs for those that are, are no more blogs than Ice Cream Pizza or Chocolate Apple Martinis are either pizza or martinis.
So these are my principles: don't lie, and be personal.
Tatters await. Let's see -- the sock drawer cleanup happened about 5 years ago, and I'm a Double SECRET candidate for President. I think that covers it.
Beyond that I have no idea where this will lead, because I don't write quickly, I'm a miserably poor proof-reader, and I don't plan to spend all day typing into this pitifully small Moveable Type window. But the title of this blog was chosen specifically to allow me to weasel out of whatever I like. So who can really say?