Speaking of comments, here are my first two, in this incarnation.

Hey! I know this is sort of off-topic but I had to ask. Does operating a well-established blog such as yours require a lot of work? I am completely new to blogging however I do write in my diary on a daily basis. I’d like to start a blog so I can share my experience and thoughts online. Please let me know if you have any suggestions or tips for new aspiring blog owners. Thankyou!

Hey I am so thrilled I found your weblog, I really found you by mistake, while I was looking on Yahoo for something else, Nonetheless I am here now and would just like to say thank you for a remarkable post and a all round enjoyable blog (I also love the theme/design), I don’t have time to look over it all at the moment but I have saved it and also added your RSS feeds, so when I have time I will be back to read more, Please do keep up the great jo.

Listen you crafty spammers. I just told you, this isn’t a goddamn blog, ‘kay?

Much less well-established, or a great jo, although … maybe that last one isn’t so far off. If I’m being honest.

Which I will try to be, in my tremulous way.

Also, here are my tips for new aspiring blog owners, since you asked, even dishonestly.

• Don’t think of it as a blog even if it is.
• Definitely don’t think of yourself as an owner, because Property Is Theft.
• Do have aspirations and make them irrationally high and then forget all about them. For example, I have chosen to aspire to belles lettres rather than literature, and it’s an important difference that I’ll beat to death some time.

Hope it helps, and that is a lie.