First Post. Last Post?

When I started making (I use this term loosely) this blog, a continuation of the regular feature I wrote every week in the Arizona Daily Wildcat - the student newspaper for the University of Arizona - I ran into trouble gettting the domain name I wanted from Blogspot.

Since everyone has at least one blog, all of my first choices were taken. But it's not like they were being put to good use; they were a waste of space with most having only an initial post.

Let's give these blogs that took my names the attention they don't deserve, shall we?

www.scattershot.blogspot.com

I guess this blog is call "Weird Al." Was it all going to be about Al Gore? I like in the third graph when blogger Andrew refers to him as Algore, which sounds like an African country. You'd think this blog would still be active as Gore is back into the spotlight with An Inconvenient Truth. He was even on the MTV Video Music Awards. Isn't that worthy of a fucking post, Andy? Just plan on updating every two and a half years. You've got time for that, don't you?

www.scatteredshots.blogspot.com

Another conservative political blog, albeit with a little LiveJournal action mixed in. POLITICAL_JUNKIE_N_SC, I'm sorry but I couldn't even get through the entirety of your first and only post. And I guess since I'm only the second person to view your profile it doesn't matter, but Be Cool is not acceptable to list as one of your favorite movies.

www.scattershooting.blogspot.com

Glen Jarboe claims in his profile that he "wants to do lots of things" during his retirement. Apparently, keeping up with a blog is not one of them. The rare 60-year-old blogger couldn't even muster up enough material for an actual first post. All it says is "First Test Post." However, he did get four comments on this test post, and two other bloggers found it to be "inquisitive." Glen, you're getting a positive response, why stop now?

www.scatter.blogspot.com

By this time I was getting pretty desperate/pissed off. Way back in 2001, Andrew Robinson decided to start this thing called a "blog." It was like a journal that you could keep online, and your friends could read it, too. Everyone thought he was crazy, but he said he wouldn't stop until everyone was reading his "blog." Unfortunately, Andrew died on June 12, 2001, and he was never able to make that second post. You can probably read about it here.

http://www.musicandvideo.blogspot.com/

And here is my previous blog, which I only managed to make one post on. I'll cast stones, but I'll throw them right back at myself as well.

But seriously, Music+Video? That first post showed promise, no?