An Odd Disconnect

Usually I post on some political topic. I enjoy that greatly and wish I could do it now, but for some reason I am feeling a rather odd disconnect. I have been thinking about this post since the beginning of the week, but nothing came to me. I continued to put it off thinking that some event, some political angle would struck me as worthy of a post, but nothing happened. I am not saying that there are no topics in the world right now worthy of a post, but I feel distant from them all.

There are riots in France, suicide bombers in Jordan and Scooter Libby is on trial. All these topics are fascinating, but something is missing. I could fall back and comment on the War in Iraq, but I have talked that to death outside of my blog. I could support President Bush and his agenda, but at this point it is hard to do that without much in the way of new initiatives.

The next place I looked for inspiration was pop culture. I enjoy the West Wing, but lately have been a bit disappointed. I still enjoy it and see it as one of the best shows on television, but not post-worthy. Billy Joel is releasing a box set entitled "My Lives." I am tremendously excited about that. In addition, it was leaked today that he will be touring next spring. Tickets will be hard to come by, but I will do what I can. That said, I could not find a way to fit that into my blog topics.

By the way of movies, I thought about posting on some of my favorite actors. Charlie Chaplin, Russell Crowe & Harrison Ford would have to be my favorite actors. I find all of the movies I have seen with them are spectacular. My favorites are "The Great Dictator," "Gladiator" and the "Indiana Jones Trilogy." Again, I saw this as too big of a departure from the topics of my previous posts.

The more I thought about what to post on, the more I concluded that this post was needed. I began writing in my blog without any sort of introduction of myself. People who know me and read this do not need this, but for my TA and classmates this will yield a better sense of who I am than any of my previous posts. This weekend, I may post on something of importance to the world and the United States, but for now, this is who I am.