Blog-none (1 of 3)

Usually, before writing a blog (or writing anything), I like to have at least one topic in mind before I begin writing. Last night, I was criticized for maintaining this mentality. I was told that that is the wrong approach. So here it is, look at me now, internet! I'm going to write about nothing.

For the record, writing about nothing is tricky. I have to avoid absolutely all topics. I can't write about President Obama's health care plan. I'm unable to mention the progress of the repairs on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. I have to completely refrain from griping about my somnambulant professors.

Even fiction characters must be avoided: hobbits; HAL, the space computer; Ender's age defying mentor, Mazer Rackham; and Gary Busey. Consider the fictional places permanently omitted: Narnia; Pangaea; The North Pole, pergatory, the dark side of the moon, and Atlanta. And music! No more writing about my favorite albums, like "Dark side of the Moon" and "Gary Busey."

Here, I must break. It seems I'm not yet ready to write about nothing. Perhaps blogging is not meant to be an act of Nothing-Writing, but a process, pursuit, or maybe even a quest to gain the wisdom necessary to think without thought; entertain superfluous postulates on the non-existant; to weblog with out we, without log, and simply b.