Ground Rules

   

1.      Love is as real and powerful a force in the universe as gravity. It is, among other things, the primary determining factor in the outcome of baseball games.
2.      I will indent every paragraph and put one space after every full stop. I understand that two spaces are preferred for readability, but if I try to fight back thirteen years of muscle memory I will never type another word.
3.      I will post at least twice per year, once on Leelah Alcorn's birthday (November 15th) and once on Ice Cube's (June 15th).
4.      I will operate on the expectation that no one will ever read this blog. 
5.      I will not allow any comments I receive convince me that someone has read this blog.
6.      I will insist (and I do) that any person reading this blog install an adblocker (uBlock Origin) on their browser of choice (Firefox). Firefox is a condom for the internet and ad blockers are condoms for your brain. If you have a "favorite commercial" you are not welcome here, and I'm only kind of joking.
7.     Aw damn it I already broke rule 4
8.      I will honor the sanctity of parentheticals.
   
9.      I will do my best to source every claim I make and quote I use. 
10.      I don't know if a blog can receive copyright claims and I'm not gonna look it up. I won't like post the full text of a book or anything but I'll be embedding videos and images and music if I can and I don't particularly give a spit.
11.      I will provide content warnings when applicable.
12.      I will be as unrelentingly earnest as I can possibly manage. It will take a few posts for me to be comfortable shedding my protective coat of irony.
13.      I will only blog sober.
14.      I will not lie except to protect my identity.
15.      I will not use the C-word when talking about my work (the C-word is "content")(I can say "content" here because it's in a parenthetical).
16.      I will allow myself a 2-month grace period, after which I will not tell anyone in real life about my blog.
17.      I will never stop treating blogging as something novel and interesting, which may hinder my ability to comply with rule 16.
18.      I will indulge in novelty and gimmickry at every opportunity.
19.      I will abide no fascism.
20.      I will abide no hatred except that of cops.
    
21.      I will abide no shit-talking toward my friend, Bruce Springsteen.

                That's about it

TLC