Mad Thoughts

Collage Work

There was a moment during tonight’s Family Guy that stuck a chord inside me— a chord of shame.

Stewie was pretending to be a teenager in high school and while impressing his new peers, verbally described his myspace page. I can’t spell it out verbatim, but basically he detailed how he used the work of others to express himself, instead of creating anything of his own.

I had already been feeling like I hadn’t produced anything of value lately on this blog, so when Stewie dropped that bomb, it really struck home.

Is my Tumblr blog anything more than a online collage? Even collages generally have a theme or some constant, right? I don’t even have that unless you count the sum totality of dorkdom a theme.

Why don’t I produce more content— more pieces from the my own head or heart? I don’t talk politics often because there are 1001+ better people than I that can do that. There is nothing I can say that is capable of convincing anyone of anything politicaly and I’ve never been one to shout into the wind.

I don’t talk about sex because I don’t have any pictures, and you can’t talk about sex without some sort of visual aide.

I don’t talk about work because no one wants to hear about how bad/good your week was. I used to blog about going to class and no one gave a shit. Plus, anyday I get to do this, is better than any day I did this.

So there is another goal for ‘08. More content produced by me. I’ll do my best to make it interesting but no promises that it actually will be.

In the meantime, what do you, readers, think of this ‘collage’? Am I acting like a teenager, shouting our Marylin Manson lyrics while glue sticking pictures of Cindy Crawford to a piece of black construction paper making word balloons out Bill Clinton’s mouth saying, “Whore! The world’s a whore!”*

Or is it just a collection of clever shit?

_{* This has never happened, its simply a illustration.}