I have started to write a story

A break from the hilarious absurdity in very short, widely-spaced bursts you've come to expect from this blog.

Jess and I had a brief conversation about religion, etc., on the ride home from work yesterday, which got me thinking about what the hell it is that I even believe. Then later she showed me a blog post about writing, with the advice of letting your guard down and just fucking writing something without too much worry of how it will be received by anyone who happens to read it.

To that end, I have started to write a short story. At the moment, I have no idea what the particulars of the story are, but that I want it to be about how damn interesting people of any and every stripe are, from the most mundane to the most extraordinary, from our potential for unquestioning good acts to our prediliction for unspeakable evil. A deeper theme will probably be that, despite all the horrid and unspeakable things we do every day, I somehow maintain great hope for humanity that cuts through all my post-modern cynicism. This hope, I'm starting to think, is as close to religious as I can come these days. People are evil twisted manipulative assholes, and isn't that great?

Anyway, now it seems I'm firing on a lot of different cylinders. Of course, music remains the "side" pursuit that excites me the most. I've also started to dabble a bit in trying to write some comedy with a particular interest in things that are filmed, and now this story. Let's see if I can't keep it all in the air somehow.