I can't stop ..... being silent - Poppin' this blog's cherry like the Birdman pops champagne

First things first, I don't have a good answer as to what motivated me to do this.  Typically, I've told people that it was out of sheer boredom, but that answer isn't particularly satisfying either for me or for whomever I'm talking with.  I guess on some level I have a vision for it, douchey as that sounds.  Ideally, I'd like for it to be a place where music, TV/movies, restaurants, articles and books, travel, and whatever else is good in life is bounced around amongst friends.  The idea is to post stuff that I can't stop doing: listening, reading, watching, eating, etc...  Ideally, this isn't a one-way street and people can give both feedback and suggestions.

That's not to say that I take this too seriously.  Another reason I decided to do this is now that I'm out of school and also roommate-less, I no longer have an audience for all the stupid shit that I used to enjoy debating.  For instance, I spent half of my train commute the other day thinking about how much I would pay to have that Scottish guy from the Castrol commercials to go around whacking people with that dipstick and uttering his catch phrase.  The other half was spent thinking about how much more I'd pay for the dipstick to be covered in oil and who I'd most like to see whacked first (conclusion: Guy Fieri during one of his "lectures").  Times were, such a thought could start a solid 20 minute discussion.  These days, I'm left to keep it to myself or gchat it.  Dire.  So this blog also gives me a pulpit with which to throw such thoughts to the masses (read: 5 or 6 people).

Finally, I recruited someone to start on this venture with me: the only person I know more bored, and more of a hater than myself, my buddy Mike from law school.  My hope is that he doesn't spam the blog with posts like "I can't stop.... telling my dog that he is a good boy" and instead contributes meaningfully to something for what may be the first time in his life aside from saving his dog Trotsky.  In all seriousness, Mike can hold an inane discussion better than almost anyone I know, and aside from his undying adulation for all things Taylor Swift, has great taste in music.  So from the minds of two bored lawyers in their mid-twenties with an unhealthy obsession with "2Pac's Hit 'em Up",  I give you "Can't stop, won't stop...." (at least until we think of a better title.)

Hit em Up - 2pac & The Outlawz