bodaggit

Well I'm back, inspired to visit my blog again by the fact that I'm currently in San Antonio visiting my wife's family, and they have a sweet new computer. I'm talkin' one of those 20" flatscreen monitors and a supersonic connection speed. Right now I'm wondering if it would fit in my suitcase.
There's no particular reason for this entry, except that I was seriously considering renaming my blog page "bodaggit," in keeping with my commitment to explore the nature of words. We owe our debt of gratitude to Jon Heder of Napoleon Dynamite for this contribution to the pop culture lexicon. Remember the scene when Napoleon throws a large citrus fruit at Uncle Rico's windshield, leading to perhaps the lamest wrestling match in cinema history, after which Napoleon throws a swift elbow to Uncle Rico's solar plexus and exclaims, "Get off me, you bodaggit!" A more articulate expression of frustration perhaps was never uttered. And speaking of udders, "it looks pretty good, except for that little guy right there. He is nipple number 5. A good dairy cow should have like 4."
I have drawn deeply from the well of wisdom that is Napoleon Dynamite, but I decided that changing my blog page title would be a foolishly self-imposed limitation. I would hate to post a blog about, say, the communion of the saints, on a website called bodaggit.blogspot.com... which reminds me, I need to change my url.

words

As the title of this blog website would suggest, I am kind of into words. It wasn't enough for me to entitle my blog page simply "Greg Morrison", or "Greg's Thoughts"; I had to come up with some sort of play on words. And speaking played-on words, what about this new and inventive addition to our wwvocabulary? What is a blog, anyway, etymologically speaking? Some sort of contracted contraction of "web" and "log"? Or maybe it's just half "bleary", half "fog", like the condition of your eyes after staring at a computer screen too long. Moreover, what sort of editorial standards are upheld for blogs? Is it okay, for example, that I place punctuation marks outside rather than within quotation marks (see above), which I have always thought makes more sense but would incense my ninth grade English teacher? And speaking of incense, does the web world want to read about my discoveries and ponderings on such weighty matters as religion, politics, dollars and cents, or should I keep it light and senseless? These and other questions I intend to get to the blogttom of with my blog. So if you've read this far, stay tuned, because you must be a big lover of Greg. which could mean blog is an acronym.