"blogging is graffiti with punctuation."

i saw the movie contagion the other day. and eliot gould's character, dr. sussman at one point in the movie says to a dude who has an online blog,

"you're not a journalist. you're a blogger. blogs are just graffiti with punctuation."

as a semi avid blogger who rarely gets too serious, i got such a kick out of this! i know the intent of the phrase was to insult the dude he was talking to. but if that statement were redirected to me, i'd take a lot of joy and even pride out of it.

i don't consider myself a journalist. i don't think my blog is some important source of information. i just write shit that i hope people will be entertained to read. that's it. that's the only reason i keep posting stuff. whenever someone says, 'i enjoyed your last post,' to me, that makes my fucking day cuz that's all i do this for.

and i have such a love for graffiti as an art form. and when i think about it, i start to see some similarities. both are just putting your stuff out there. it's your message, uncensored, unfiltered, and untouched by big corporate machines that control almost all other forms of entertainment and information. this blog is just as available to the world to see as someone's tag posted large on a billboard that thousands of commuters pass every day.

and much like graffiti, there's good blogs and there's bad blogs. bad graffiti pisses me off just as much as a bad blog. when it's bad, it's wasting space. but when it's good, it's doing so much. it's adding aesthetic value to the drudgery that surrounds it.

and with graffiti and blogging, for the most part it's all about passion. not a lot of people are getting paid to do this stuff. okay, i know there's some exceptions to this rule... but the majority aren't seeing a single dollar. but we all keep on doing it cuz we enjoy to get it out there in the world.

this world can be a boring place to look at and live in at times. i'm glad there's people out there who out of passion alone wanna add stuff for us to look at in this world to spice things up and make it somewhat more enjoyable, if just for a few moments.

fuck blogging. i do graffiti with punctuation. that sounds way more awesome.