First Post!

OK, here I go...finally getting around to this blogging thing, approximately 3 years after it was last cool to have a blog. So, I'm not an early adopter--sue me.

I don't think I have something so important to say that I MUST. BE. HEARD. It's really just a place for me to noodle a bit, and get around to doing things I have thought might be fun to do.

I wanted to call this blog "Who Am I Kidding?", after an obscure Saturday Night Live sketch from Fall of 1988 ("Lenny & Two Sammies"). The sketch was pretty dumb, with host Matthew Modine and two SNL cast members (maybe Kevin Nealon and Dana Carvey?) playing three slacker/loser dudes who have all these big plans, but end up just sitting around drinking beer and saying, "Aw, who'm I kiddin'? That's another thing I ain't never gonna do." Or something like that. For some reason, this sketch--or rather, that repeated line--stuck with me and my college roommate, and even as recently as a month ago (in mid-2009), we reference it when we talk about things we should get around to doing but probably won't. In today's world of Hulu and YouTube, I had really hoped to find this sketch or the whole episode of SNL to watch and link to, but no such luck. Too bad--it had some memorable moments--at least to me: "Dukakis after Dark"; "The Liberal"; the Full Metal Jacket cold open with the late, great Phil Hartman giving the new recruits the most awesomely ridiculous nicknames. This was the episode on the Saturday before GHW Bush was elected--the first election in which I voted, and the first Bush presidency I tried to prevent. So far I'm 0-for-3 voting against Bushes: I hope that streak is done for good!

But alas, my "clever" blog name was already taken (on Wordpress by a law student: http://whoamikidding.wordpress.com/; and here on Blogspot by some dude who apparently abandoned his blog OVER 5 YEARS AGO for a different name/format/whatever: http://whoamikidding.blogspot.com/ --thanks a lot, buddy). So for now, I'll just go with "All the Good Blog Names are Taken", at least until I think of something I like better.