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Oh. Um. So, it’s March already? Yeah, apparently. It’s suddenly warm enough to open the windows and contemplate options for life other than bundling up under five layers, and then throwing my wool-ensconced body under a salt-encrusted bus.
I kid, of course, but there’s something about sunny days and a warm breeze coasting through the house, fluttering papers and billowing curtains that makes even house cleaning almost enjoyable.
Part of the reason I haven’t been writing is because I’ve been writing a lot of other things, boring things, things that involve citations, reference pages, and phrases like “statistically significant” and “theoretical lens.” Today alone, I wrote fourteen pages about the early 1970s, and while I enjoy my work and all, can you see how that sort of thing might make logging in to write, in normal English about everyday topics, seem like a crazy idea?
While uploading the new masthead, though, I noticed a spike on my internet traffic graph, so I clicked through to see what exactly people found so interesting here on March 4th. Most of what I found was boring, except for, at the very bottom of the list of search terms people had used to find their way to this site, one lone entry, shining like a beacon: “donnie wahlberg in his homeboy shirt.”
I repeat: DONNIE WAHLBERG. IN HIS HOMEBOY SHIRT.
Suddenly, the infinite possibilities of the sorts of topics one can cover on the internet unfold before my eyes, and I realize that by day, I may write papers about the 1970s that literally only four other people will read, but at night? At night, my alter ego is the author of the third-highest hit when you go to Google and type in “donnie wahlberg in his homeboy shirt.”
