One Missing Sock…

Based on the date of the first post I ever wrote, I started this whole blogging thing exactly 707 days ago.  It wasn’t, however, until just over a year ago that I became really dedicated to the persuit of blogging.  At that point I registered with the fine people at wordpress and actually began my first regular blog (which I shall now shamelessly plug).  The biggest problem which I encountered with this blog was not keeping it regular, but the fact that I had started it in a vein which was somewhat “high concept.”  I felt that to “lower” that concept, so to speak, would betray the very reason I began that blog.  This was a problem.  I actually wanted a place where I could talk about movies I enjoyed, music I listen to, games that I play, websites I find amusing and just general merriment and banter.  I converesed with one very good friend of mine (a friend who will no doubt introduce himself at some point) regarding the possibility of begining another blog.  A blog for just those kind of random posts I wished for.  So resolved the genesis of “One Missing Sock.”  On that rather melodramatic note,

“Hey, you can call me Jim.”

There isn’t really any point in me telling all you fine people the intricate details about my life.  Given my blatent disregard for identity protection, any google search on “Jim D” would probably yield you folks with enough information to pass yourselves off as me at one of my family reunions.  Yes, the physical likeness may be difficult to replicate, but given aging Aunt Edna’s poor sight and lack of technological understanding, you could probably spoof her with a story about some form of reconstructive surgery… unless of course you’re female in which case a slightly different story could be used but its worth noting that you’d spend the rest of said hypothetical reunion being “frowned upon.”

I guess my reasons for stating this blog have already been touched upon and I’m sure my brother in arms will expand upon that and discuss his own motivation in his first post (which I can tell you is ‘waiting in the wings’ so to speak).  What I should tell you, however, is what to expect from this little slice of webspace.  Expect literally anything.  A number of years back myself, my One Missing Sock cohort and another good friend of ours spent a day recording material onto tape at my house; a kind of proto-podcast it you will.  The conversations we recorded generated, amonst other things, a parody of Bon Jovi’s ‘It’s my life’ which biographied the culinary tendencies of a good friend of ours and a truely terifying drama about a sentient, ethereal weapon with homicidal tendencies; the aptly titled Ghosty Knife…  My co-conspirator in the world of One Missing Sock once wrote a truely hilarious exegesis on the readiness of toy companies to shamelessly cash in on franchises in completely unnecessary and illogical ways.  That particular post posed the immortal question Why would Spiderman need an ‘Action Cycle’ with real missile firing capability…?   “Stuff” like that is the reason we created this blog; in the hope that we could disseminate a little bit of our humour, cynicism and perhaps even knowledge. 

At the core of the site, however, is just two down-to-earth guys and I guess that’s probably the best way to frame any expectations you might have for One Missing Sock…

I do hope you’ll visit again in the near future.

Yours,

Jim

 

By the way, there is no Aunt Edna… Yea, I bet that just blew your mind… or not… whatever…