i'm answering the february fourteenth friday five now. just because.



(1) explain why you started to journal/blog. in the beginning there was blog and with it, blogging. that's really all you need to know. plus it was cool to suck up free time throwing up words and designs and along the way learning basic html and other necessary computer functions. blogging was supposed to be about writing and creativity and connecting people. but now it's just about become religion. i believe in the beauty of blogging beyond anything else. there are no bad after effects to blogging. only good. sure it seems like a waste of time, a waste of thought, a waste of the world wide web, a public exposure of your darkest deepest thoughts. but it's this or television (amazingly i do lots of both, blog and tv. needless to say, i budget my time very expertly). oh yes. i starting blogging for world peace and for the children too. *wave smile* no, seriously.



(2) do people you interact with day to day or family members know about your journal/blog? why or why not? most of the people i interact with know about my blog. mainly because i tell them about it, in an effort to garner conversions. "hey *insert name* you should blog!" "what's a blog?" "let me show you..." something like that. the conversion rate isn't quite one hundred percent yet but i have faith. i feel like having a whole wardrobe emblazoned with blogger or hyperwest apparel would help my cause. but venture capitalists are hard to convince nowadays in this weak economy. so for now i'll have to rely on word of mouth and grassroots movements. help me and convert those around you. my reach only extends so far. about two and a half feet to be exact.



(3) do you have a theme for your journal/blog? talked about it already. world peace. it's the unseen, unheard, unwritten, read between the lines type of message. i don't talk much about world peace but it's there alright. if everyone would just put down their guns, egos, whatevers and blog about things, the world would be a far better place. remember, nobody gets killed in a blog war. another benefit is that by cruising enough blogs you can find people who you relate to, who have gone through what you're going through, can assure you that you are not alone. i am here with you. though we're far apart. you're always in my heart. michael don't lie. the theme is world peace. the motivation is world peace. the word of the day is worldpeace.



(4) what direction would you like to have your journal/blog go in over the next year? i really want to take anachronic up to the next level. to a place where space and time collide (my poetry teacher said that "space and time doesn't collide" and that i should edit that part of an assignment. "too abstract" were her words). anachronic has been focused inwardly, with an eye toward observation and questions. i want to make some statements. come out and really say something. less asking, more opinions. i am through wondering how things work, now i'm ready to jump to hasty ill-formed conclusions about why things work a certain way. there needs to be some controversy, some investigative reporting, maybe a few dashes of excitement. i've been keeping my exciting actual life off these pages for so long i feel like i've been living a double life. by day i'm a wake up early get at them type of guy. by night i'm a dull blogger, trying to pretend my life is really boring so as to not make folks jealous. it's getting hard to separate the two, the worlds keep on colliding. just the other day i was caught doing something fun. i'm looking for a real convergence of my superhero/secret identity lives. look for the reality to meet fantasy and vice versa. or could that be versa vice?



(5) pimp five of your favorite journals/blogs. ah, a variant of the age old "what is your favorite blog" question. old time philosophers would of debated heatedly on this topic if they had lived past the olden times. in order to inject some philosopher major credentials up in here i'll give a sampling of some blogs i like to read.



princess melissa from the real world. she is just about the funniest damn person i've ever read. funny funny funny. can't say enough. the fact that she is funny and a public figure just makes her stories even funnier. six funnies is certainly good stuff. ordered chaos and escadawg. i know these people. have seen them in physical carbon form. plus i have their phone numbers in my cell phone. so when they blog something cool i can call them. not that i do. but i could. do ivy leaguers write better than the rest of us average schmoes? i dunno, read them and find out. girls are weird. just a dope site overall from a veteran of the online writing circuit. insightful, introspective, intriguing and armed with great musical taste to boot, it's a shame not all weird girls are like this. black eye sunrise is a site belonging to a guy who was in my poetry class. i stumbled upon his page recently and really admire his way with words. it just flows man, flows. and last of all, technicolor. newest addition to my blog readings. she's young but writes and insights way above her age. and she's mad funny too.



freak. that's six blogs. oh well. i'm philosophy, not mathematics. there is no "i" in aristotle. oh wait...