Blargen
Originally Posted on August 2nd, 2007:
Blarg : A word that means anything you want it to.
e/n : Everything/Nothing
From urbandictionary.com :
Blargen : Anything that has to do with anything.
Blarg, in most contexts, is used to express exasperation. E/N is a genre of websites that were about everything and nothing at the same time–it was during their era that blogs as we know them truly began to flourish. I like to think of these as being the root words for “Blargen,” which is anything that has to do with anything, which is exactly what this blog is about.
In the past, whenever I’ve taken it upon myself to start a blog or website, I always seem to arrive at the same questions: What is this about? What is the site supposed to be? Is there a message I’m trying to convey? What is it?
How could I narrow what I wanted to do down to a single interest, that was my problem. Politics and current events, technology, philosophy, gaming, literature; there were so many to choose from! Or, I thought, what if I want to relay an anecdote to my readers, or share something I’ve learned or simply reflect on life itself?
I’ve been toying with the idea of starting a site and blog again for many months now, but was stopped at every one of those questions. It’s easy to start a project with good intentions when you have no direction. Likewise, it’s difficult to maintain a project when you want to do something outside of its scope, which is what brought me to my current conclusion:
Why give it a scope at all?
What a liberating idea! Of all the toiling I’ve done in trying to come up with an image, the most obvious answer was right there, all along. What can you expect from me? What can I promise to deliver time and again? Dear reader, I leave you with this:
BLARGEN! BLARGEN! BLARGEN!
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That wraps up the mandatory introduction post. I’m also working on my website, at long last. The name, naturally, is blargen.com