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No Time Like The Present
by muaddib at 11:46 PM on October 09, 2001
Many thanks to mg for inviting me to join the posting team on BS. I am humbled by the honour and I sincerely hope I don't disappoint him (or all of you).
Okay, now that that's out of the way, just what the hell do I talk about...?
My first instinct was to tell all of you about my god-awful ex-fiancée. There's plenty of "Bad Samaritan" fodder in that story: her breaking off our engagement so she could be with an overweight, balding drug addict; her deciding to tell me she was leaving me halfway through my law school final exams; me filing a lawsuit against her on her birthday - you know, the usual stuff. But I just don't have the heart to go into it again.
Then I thought I'd tell you about how much I love politics and how you'd best get used to the idea that some non-trivial percentage of my posts will be comprised of what my college professors would call right-wing screeds (if I were out of earshot). But the stuff that really gets a political junkie like me going became a lot less relevant lately so I can't make even myself care all that much right now.
My next thought was to steal a page from space's playbook and tell you some outrageously funny story that I happened to be involved in once. But I can't because the statute of limitations hasn't expired yet.
I then figured that, if nothing else, I could introduce myself. You know, tell you that I'm a 32 years old, that I just graduated from law school, that I used to be in the Navy, and so on. But that's just plain boring. Besides, I already have a self-absorbed little bio thingie on my own web site that will demonstrate much better than one post possibly could just how thoroughly full of myself I am. One thing I guess I'd better tell you about myself, though: I try not to take myself too seriously (Rule 62) but even my sister mistakes my sarcasm for seriousness sometimes, so - just as a general guideline - if you aren't sure how I mean something, please assume I'm kidding. Unless I'm not.
So none of those things would do for so momentous an occasion as my first by-line on BS. So I chose the worst cliché of all: the I-Don't-Know-What-To-Write-About post - and ran with it. Next time I promise you a post with a beginning, a middle and an end - maybe even with all three being about the same thing.
comments (7)
hmmm... a lawyer, a man-who-got-away, a right winger, a veteran, a brother, a leadfoot, a southerner? well, at least you are not under the spell of frank herbert.
by bobthecorgi at October 10, 2001 7:34 AM
muaddib are those dudes from Dune....I think. You know, the one's with the blue eyes. Or was muaddib Paul Attredes name when he joined their tribe? Dammit, now I'm gonna have to watch it tonight. At least it's a damn good movie.
by DJ Decepticon at October 10, 2001 7:44 AM
You know, I was going to ask about mauddib, since it sounded familiar. I've seen Dune a couple of times, but that wasn't where I thought I remembered it from...I'm going to go before my sentences become more convoluted, and I use more prepositions.
by SwingCheese at October 10, 2001 11:14 AM
Glad you made it MD! :-)
by Pristine at October 10, 2001 1:55 PM
Welcome. My girlfriend also left me halfway through law school finals. But whereas yours left for an an overweight, balding drug addict, mine left me for another girl. And damn it, I didn't even get to watch. So is BS going all right wing and freaky ass now? Bullocks, we need to convince some of the liberals to put down the bong and get some posts up - fast.
by Charles at October 11, 2001 12:00 AM
Thanks for the kind welcome, all. I appreciate it.
Guesses as the the provenence of my "handle" are spot on: It's the name Paul Atreides takes when he joins the Fremen in Dune. I'm under no spells, though. They all wore off a few weeks after 'She' left me.
A clarification: I didn't say I was a right-winger. I said my *professors* would call my viewpoints right-wing. But we're talking here about people who have to turn right to see Fidel Castro (one once told me he thought FDR was "the most Capitalist President we've ever had"). As it happens, I'm a conservative libertarian in practice and a rational anarchist in my heart. HTH.
by Muad'Dib at October 11, 2001 1:08 AM
I'm a little tardy in my "welcome", but here it is -- I am glad to see you writing here. You have a great site of your own, too, which I've just now discovered! So, again, welcome.
by kd at October 12, 2001 12:26 AM