Wednesday, November 19, 2008

What Is Blog?

What is Blog?

Is it me? What is me?

Is it you? Why you?

Who are we?

Is it what I ate for breakfast?

Is it what my mommy bought me for Christmas?

Is it the weather outside? Inside?

Is it the world outside? Inside?

Is it where I'm from? Is it where I'm going?

Or is it where I wish to go?

Is it a reflection or a creation?

Is it a thing unto itself or a vessel?

Is it meeting new people?

Is it meeting yourself?

Is it a waste of time? Is it a record of time?

Is it a waste of space? Is there a difference?

Is it live? Is it a draft? Is it for fun? Is it for money?

(It couldn't be for the money, now, could it?)

Is it questions? Is it answers?

Is it doubts? Is it strengths? Is it weaknesses?

Is it love? Is it blindness? Is it immoral? Is it callow?

Is it a manic Monday or a lazy Sunday?

Is it music or sport or cinema or politics?

Is it poetry? Is it literature?

Is it writing? Is it listening? Is it reading?

Is it page views? Is it comments? Is it clicks? Is it links?

Is it community? Is it a corporate whore?

Is it an entrepreneurial whore?

Is it grammar? Is it spelling? Is it long? Is it short?

Is it humor? Is it voice? Is it tone?

Is it expertise? Is it exploration?

Is it talking or is it shutting up?

Is it self-indulgence or self-discovery?

Is it man? Is it animal? Is it science? Is it God?

Is it woman? (It could be woman.)

Is it laughter and tears, ups and downs?

Is it glances and gestures, the in-betweens?

Is it copying and pasting? Is it banging on the keyboard?

Is it bold? Is it italicized? Is it underlined? Is it serif or sans?

Is it my favorite colors or is it easy on the eyes?

Is it the content or everything but the content?

Is it a good name? What's in a name? Nothing? Everything?

Is it freedom? Is it prison? Is it life? Is it death?

Is it a question mark or an exclamation mark? Is it parentheses?

Is it hiding from or is it showing off to the world?

Is it trying or is it doing? Or is it not doing?

Is it engaging the world or is it fighting it?

Is it engaging myself or is it fighting myself?

Is it both? Is it neither? Is it everything? Is it nothing?

Maybe it's nothing.

Maybe it's a long, poetic series of reflexive questions that have no answers, yet will demand comment nonetheless.

What is Blog?