This is a new blog and I am excited about it.

My friend Jake and I decided over a year ago that, as aspiring writers keyed into modern fads, we should start a blog that would, hopefully, become widely read and make us wildly successful without having to do stupid little things like getting jobs or leaving our dorm rooms.

Later, it became a half-hearted hobby, and then a neglected pursuit. But this fall, I became serious about writing and decided to give it another go, so I dusted off the old site and started leaving posts on it.

As a serious writer (all of a sudden), I felt obliged to write about serious things--Cuba, Barack Obama, things like that. But I also had an overriding interest in music and sports that started to creep into my postings. Good writing, I thought, was worthy of reading, so I shouldn't hesitate to post it.

But I also felt the need to keep it separate from my other work, so I have created two new blogs. This one, which deals with music, and A Sport for Pretentious Hipsters and Foreigners, where I will write about soccer, another thing I am passionate about. That way, I hope to keep myself better organized in my writing and delineate boundaries. Hopefully, the partition will also help those interested in the specific subjects on those blogs to find what they are looking for.