Cliche blogs

A lot has changed since I last felt compelled to update this blog. Feeling contrite and cliche about sharing my thoughts among so many other 'thought sharers' among this great ether we call the internet caused an eleven month delay on Willie's Successive Outlook (WSO). For now, however, I post without hesitation.
Sure, I feel a little similar to that one chick on the Julia Child movie that blogged about cooking her way through the cookbook, but I don't care. Although, I should be concerned that I'm able to yank that reference to mind so easily. Nevertheless, despite my long absence from the popular culinary blog scene, minus the culinary part, I am happy to make, not only my return, but also my third post.

So, with a naive plan to actually keep this updated, I am saying 'so long' to the Blogspot space and relocating to WordPress. Three posts and I need more functionality.
Find the new 'wsOutlook' link below.
http://wsoutlook.wordpress.com/

Breakout Radio Interview: Hollywood Tunes In

Megan Sherwood made her break into show business today with a group radio interview at 1310 A.M. KNPT. At nine this morning Megan,"the up and comer," waltzed into the studio "as if she had been born there," said talent agent and producer Ted Rosenzweig who viewed the one hour long show online.
"She was a natural- [her] command over the microphone and her grasp of subject matter was unprecedented."
No doubt there will be more riveting entertainment to come as Megan's phone has been ringing off the hook since this morning's performance. Offers to host, write, and even produce approaching radio and television material have been stacking up, according to her newly hired publicist, Jenifer Wader.
"Meg, as her friends call her," Wader says "will be weighing all the options and making her decision when she has re-cooperated from this morning's exhausting achievement." Wader goes on to decline all interview requests on behalf of Megan citing threats have caused security to increase around the recently indoctrinated celebrity.
The footage below poorly shows Megan's interview. Our deepest apologies for the quality of camera work. The man shooting the footage was standing on a small rowboat trying to keep a camera phone steady during a 4.5 earthquake after three cups of coffee. While the footage suffers, the evidence is clear, A STAR IS BORN!

A recent rumor that broke only minutes before this has been posted is that NBC fired Conan O'Brien in anticipation of signing Megan this evening. Our sources indicate that Leno will be the next to fall leaving the entire 11:35pm-1:30am time slot wide open for "Chatting with Megs and Four Legs," a newly conceived talk show that will feature the top celebrities performing wacky stunts in order to please their pets. Again, this is only a rumor from a reliable source. Expect to see all the smut magazines covering this tomorrow.

An Introduction and a pair of Reebok Pumps

The first post on a new blog, feels like getting to know a shoe on a personal level.

The shoe isn't listening, nor does it really want to hear about your garbage disposal problems or see pictures of your dog - all the shoe wants to do is PUMP UP - psss, pssss - (man, I woulda killed for those kicks in '92).
While this IS a deficient analogy, and somewhat confusing, it does the primary job of introducing the fact that no-one is actually reading this! So, until I spread the word to my computer illiterate family or my apathetic friends - I shall be discoursing with 'a shoe,' as it were.
Onward I say.
It seems everyone is published or blogging these days. In turn, the road to acceptance and acknowledgment is arduous and success is seldom.
With this in mind, I choose to write for the pure release of it. Be it a recent trade in the NBA, a photo that I snapped that day, or an interesting article I have a few thoughts on -
I will try and just WRITE
- no editing or revising...only spell-check for my dignities sake. Leaving you, the reader; or my shoe in this case, the unmitigated opinion without enough time to re-read and edit/change. This technique, called "free-writing," was introduced to me by an English teacher of mine and has always helped brainstorm for papers and projects.
Albeit somewhat crude at times, I believe it is a great way to improve one's writing skills while truly letting the mind translate directly to the page with the least amount of thought filtration possible (the filter being apprehensiveness I assume). Needless to say, my initial posts will suffer in quality, but with any luck will improve as time goes on, impelling me to become a better, faster writer.

Good thing my audience is only a shoe so far.

Well, here's a game plan for my/our new blog. My wife and I, along with our dog Willie whom the blog is named after, decided to start a blog in order to post the typical family update stuff to keep the clan updated. OK, this was only her and the vain dog's plan. Honestly, I can't see filling space with 'where I walked my dog today,' segments so MY strategy consists of posting amusing and intriguing articles mostly surrounding our/my interests or the flavor of that week. In the end, ideally the posts will be segmented into:
1. recent family activity and pics
2. TrailBlazers links, opinions, articles, and grumbling
3. technology articles/ career news
4. recent design efforts
5. any random Willie posts...or where I might have walked him that day. HA, suckers


I look forward to posting in the future - and now...
Please enjoy the following fun facts about shoes... in order to round out and conclude the dreadful analogy


-In Europe pointed toes on shoes were fashionable from the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries.
-A pair of the pictured Dee Brown 'PUMPS' were $148 on eBay when I looked just now...
-In Hungary the groom drinks a toast to his bride out of her wedding slipper.

...OK that's enough - I don't have any type of foot fetish, I swear!