I had my Motorola StarTAC until the Summer of 2005
I didn't get an iPod until the Summer of 2006
I still don't have a plasma or LCD tv
and until today, I didn't have my own blog
So why start a blog? For one, I feel that ever since the inception of email, my writing skills have deteriorated to the point where writing a grammatically complete sentence without hyphens or ellipses has become a daily challenge. Yet it's a challenge I can avoid because incomplete sentences are acceptable in both the personal and professional setting. My current goal is to improve my writing skills to that of an 8 year old.
Two, I have a lot of random thoughts during the course of the week that get lost in the mix. I think that documenting these thoughts will perhaps benefit me in some way personally and/or professionally. I'm not going to fool myself into thinking that these thoughts are insightful or that other people actually care about what I think. But maybe, just maybe, I'll become the Jim Rome of the internet.
So why is it called Marking It Zero? Well, anyone who is a Lebowski fan knows Walter's line
"Mark it zero!" By the way, The Big Lebowski is perhaps the most genius film ever and there will likely be many subtle (and not-so-subtle) references to the movie in my blog. I'm not going to take the time to explain why the quote has meaning to me, but hopefully the meaning will become evident in future postings.That's it.
2 comments:
8 year old's dude.
totally agree that the forcing yourself to sit down and write will not only improve your writing but can also turn your thoughts into something bigger than you can even imagine.
way to get this up, it fires me up!
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