A Knight in Dragonland

Jeep2000, the anonymous purveyor of the new “Support your local central Illinois businesses” blog, has tagged me. Now I apparently have to tell everyone why I blog.

Here, in no particular order, is why mild-mannered Matt Weidman became the blogger A Knight in Dragonland …

1) I’m an opinionated S.O.B.

2) I enjoy talking to myself. A blog is a much better forum than my previous favorite location … the shower.

3) As several others have stated, it’s good to actually sit down and compose your thoughts and think about the positions you take on various topics. You generate more effective arguments that way.

4) It’s good for me to be told I’m full of it occasionally (by someone other than my wife). The shower head never told me that. Of course we had interesting conversations on other topics …

Kidding.

5) This blog is a good forum to call attention to issues I find important. While I don’t generate very many hits myself, I’ve been fortunate enough to get some stories picked up by more widely read bloggers or local media outlets. If that helps to make the world a better place for someone like Jake Grys, then this is worth all the headaches, the name calling, the threats and the attempts of a certain holier-than-thou physician to get me fired.

I now will “break the chain” and assume whatever curse is attached to it. I don’t mind being tagged myself, but I refuse to tag anyone else. Pretty much everyone in the local blogosphere has been tagged already, anyway.