My Inaugural Post

So after a series of false attempts and creative cul-de-sacs, I finally figured out what I should be blogging about: Culture, with the art and politics that surround it.

My first attempt at blogging was almost, I think, a year ago with which I couldn't for the life of me settle on a single consistent theme. It's a little bit difficult to keep peoples interest in your blog if you jump from commenting on foreign policy in one post, to baking cookies in the next. There aren't too many avid foreign policy reading  pastry chefs- probably for good reason at that, do we need to hear souffle metaphors for the Wars in Afghanistan or Iraq? Although they probably wouldn't be wholly inaccurate, they would be insufferably cheesy, up with to an extent of which I shall not put- not exactly a pun but this one is a piece of cake. But I digress.

So what is culture? Culture is everything apart of our environment that entertains us, or at least me. Our customs, our norms, our silly superstitions. From the agrarian cattle ranching of the south west (Fried Coke), and north west (Brokeback Mountain), to the stoner inflicted west-most coastal states (the culture I identify with most), to the Bible Belt along the Gulf (Old Dixie), to the more progressive north eastern states (the cradle of the United States), to the heart of this nations dwindling industrial base in the mid-west (cheese and textiles), this country has a tremendous diversity of cultures probably in large part due to its size. No other country in the world takes up such a large geographic space of land than the good old U.S. of A, which can be good and problematic. This is truly one of the few countries in the world today whereby the multi-cultural experiment works for some odd reason, but I'll save that topic for another post.

Well I got off on a little tangent there, but the bottom line is my blog is back. The personal journal that everyone can read but doesn't. What a strange concept. The facebook age has definitely made social interdependency the norm on a global scale. It's both frightening and invigorating at the same time. Let's see where it takes us.