The One Where....

...he starts out his blog with a title reminiscant of the old Friend's episodes. Quite a strange way to do so. But, being honest with himself is a "new kick" that this "Kid" is on, so he'll be honest with you. He has no idea why he picked it. Because blog entries, to the Kid, are kind of like episodes from a TV show, maybe it's the best way. Maybe it's the worst way. Who knows.
The kid, unnamed at this point, is trying to remember why he wanted to start a "stupid blog" in the first place. Then he remembered a story of a videographer over in the middle east who did short 2 minute spots for the nightly news, as well as keep up a blog. Apparantly the guy didn't feel as if he was getting enough time to tell the world about what he was experiencing, so he set up a blog that he could write in, to more accurately, and at any length he chose, tell the world his story. The reason for this allusion being that on one ocassion, he broadcasted controversial footage, that showed an American soldier shooting an unarmed civilian. As he had no way to defend his actions through the same medium that the outcry was sparked from, he turned to his blog to tell whoever was willing to read it, his side of the story, with the hope that maybe they can understand the "why" of what he did a bit better.
Although the kid liked the idea of being able to clarify himself to the world, he was obviously not a videographer in the middle east somewhere, who started a blog to tell the world more about his surely much more eventful day than the Kid's. He thought at length about what he would say. His friends warned him that he had tried "the whole on-line journal thing" once already, and that had ended in a crazed fit of fury in an angry final post. But he shoved their warnings aside, thinking to himself, "Hey, ya know what? This time is gunna be different. It will, I swear. This time, it's not going to be about what a beautiful day it was in Pittsburgh, because gosh darn it, everyone's got the internet nowadays, and they can hop on and find out that you had a beautiful day. So no more expired weather forecasts in there. Ohh no- you're going to talk about things that are even now, as you (I) write this, unknown to you (I)." And so as the kid sat there and pondered about how he was going to talk about something he didn't even know that he was going to talk about yet, he realized that it wasn't his duty or his place to know what he was going to discuss yet. He had only begun to write the first entry, or rather, the first episode of something that had no direction yet, no compass (as his freshman english teacher liked to say), so why attempt to tell a blank story? You may be asking yourself that very same question at this very moment, as this first entry seems to be the beginning of a blank story. You don't know the asnwer. The kid certainly didn't know the answer to it either. So don't ask him.