Published: May 24, 2008 11:06 pm            

Jimmy Espy: Get to blogging

Not enough Jimmy Espy in your day?

You want more of my spot-on (or is that crackpot) political views? More stories about the hilarious (or is that insipid) adventures of my 3-year-old daughter? More deftly told (or is that maudlin) stories of the human condition as chronicled by your favorite (or most despised) newspaper editor?

Of course you do. Or don’t.

Either way, I’m gonna put them out there.

“There,” in this case being the blogosphere, that information- and opinion-laden subdivision of Al Gore’s Internet.

Don’t worry folks. We’re not gonna test you. So don’t feel it necessary to research exactly what a blog is. Just know that everybody on the Internet has one and it doesn’t cost anything to nose around.

In this case, poke your snoot in at www.espysoutpost.blogspot.com. Of course this is aimed at those of you who have access to the Information Superhighway — a phrase I swear I’ll never subject you to again as long as I live.

For those of you who don’t have Internet access, I will be paying a recalcitrant Cherokee chief to emerge from his cave daily and convert my bloggin’ into smoke signals which he will release from atop Fort Mountain. (In other words, GET A COMPUTER!).

My ego, swollen and malformed as it is, is not so vast that I really think y’all can’t wait for my next weekly offering. If I did think that, you can bet I’d be making more money than I am now.

But I do know there are a thousand things a week that I believe at least a portion of our readership would be interested in. The problem is finding the time, space and format to offer them up to the reading public. One of the things I’ll be doing with this blog is linking to information and opinion from other sites. If I see a great column by George Will or Michael Kinsley or an interesting story from some other publication I’ll send you that way, via Mr. Gore’s marvelous invention.

(OK, no more Al Gore-Internet jokes. I know it’s old, but Robin Williams gets paid millions and he still does a lot of Nixon material).

What’s that ... a question?

“What kind of bounteous good things shall ye be clueing us in to, oh mighty media maven?”

I’m glad you asked.

Stuff. All kinds of stuff.

Sports. Politics. Economics. Entertainment. Jokes. Whatever grabs my eye.

Local. Regional. Statewide. National.

Heck, the whole world’s our oyster — as a very drunk man once said — and what good is an oyster if we don’t cover it in a flavorful sauce and let it slide down our intellectual goozles?

Like I said, stuff.

The blog will be a mixture of these linked items and my own mental meanderings.

So don’t be surprised if any of the following subjects come up for the Espy Treatment:

Books

Movies

Sports

Politics

Immigration

Economics

History

Pork barbecue

Pork-barrel spending

“Lonesome Dove”

Military history

Local government

Local people

Local controversies

Local locos

The election (at every level)

Raquel Welch in “Kansas City Bomber”

My kid

My wife

My pets

It’ll all be there and I promise you if you check back regularly you’ll find something sure to offend you. Hopefully, en route to that offense, you will be entertained and informed.

Or not.

Give it a try starting today.

That’s www.espysoutpost.blogspot.com. (If that doesn’t work, we’ll fix it on Monday).

And remember, Rome wasn’t built in a day. That was Athens.



Jimmy Espy is executive editor of The Daily Citizen. He welcomes e-mail at Jimmyespy@daltoncitizen.com or stop by the office. However, cash bribes should be delivered by nameless third parties.

        

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