Partum Shot

This will never work. Right up front that needs to be said - this will never work. I approach this with a Buster Keaton expression on my heart's face, knowing that it's here and must be dealt with, and having pressed the buttons and clicked the clicks and navigated past that "Your blog has been created!!" notice and past the "Start posting" command - and it IS a command, not a cheerfully offered optional opportunity. Once you clickety-click on the infernal create-my-blog combination of clicks, and it's THERE, dammit, you are obligated to populate the sucker, because lord knows you don't wanna be one of those fraidy-cats who won't "put it out there" nor one of those don't-wannabes with nothing to say. I mean, EVERYONE has something to say, right? And - sadly I fear - the Web has afforded everyone an opportunity to say things right out in the open that would better have lived their brief & brutish as tossed away mumbles. But there it is, and against my every fear, this opening has in fact turned into a "meta post" - a blog post about blogging. I oughta be shot.