Unleashed

Everyone else has one. Why not me?

After all, I've got plenty of things to say. Things like . . . uh . . . "trebuchet." Which is, ironically, both the name of my font of choice as well as a medieval seige engine. A fitting start for the Internet Peasant.

I came by that name pretty much accidentally. Late on Fat Tuesday last, my wife and I were visiting our friends the Hatkes, who rent out their basement to our now-new-friends, the Powells. Bill Powell and I were discussing the various and sundry problems and possibilities in America, particularly governmental and economic. At one point I was searching for a suitable term that would describe someone who was both a member of an everyman, lower-class social strata, and yet a product of modern society. And the Internet Peasant was born.

It struck us both as such a great name for a blog that I considered it a sort of sign; I've been told often that I should blog, and I've been meaning to blog, but I never really got around to it.

So now I have.

Let's see if I can keep it up.