The Great Banal Jerk
July 31st, 2018
What's all this then, you ask?
Way back in the year 2001, I started a web log known as the Great Satan. The idea was for me to ramble on about whatever I felt like at the time, and I wrote a bunch of material for the thing. Things transpired, however, and when I abandoned that site and the attached domain, I lost the vast majority of what I wrote for it. This despite me usually being a digital packrat.
Anyhow, I got the urge to write for myself again a few years later, and scored banality.com for a song. It seemed like a great place for me to continue transforming the static from my brain into digital bits and bytes and bleeps and bloops to entertain and enrage those foolish enough to follow my broken thought processes. I was apparently brain damaged at the time, after all.
I hung onto that domain for about a decade, give or take, until I passed it along to my significant other, Brenda. She has better uses in mind for it, after all, but this left me in need of a new domain for my highly irregular schedule of rants and raves about this and that. Poking around, I discovered that, amazingly, obnoxiousjerk.com was still available for purchase!
So what you're seeing here is the third iteration of my web log. I've imported all the old material from the Banality here, and I have cleansed it of references to that domain, for the most part. All of its posts are primarily web address-neutral at this point, save for those that needed to specifically refer to the Banality, in the unlikely event that I move this material to a fourth domain.
Even better, I found at least one of the old Great Satan posts I made, way back in 2003, so I was able to create a fifteen year continuity of sorts for my online writings, albeit one punctuated by vasts gaps of time where I was either not writing or not right in the head. And both occurred with great frequency in the time period between 2003 and 2009, that's for sure!
So welcome. Welcome to the Obnoxious Jerk! The idea here is to simply continue the same chicanery I engaged in on my previous two web log sites, so if you're at all familiar with them, this will seem like old hat. And if not, why, there's already a huge library of material for you to read, the better to get to know the author. Which means you, too, may be happily referring to him by the site's name soon!