I think that the best way to start this blog off is by connecting it to some writing that I actually do find relevant and that also makes me think about the way life should be, among other things. That, and my respect for the Midwest managed to increase after discovering Garrison Keillor, which I'll be the first to say is more than a little difficult to do: http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/features/deskofgk/2005/old_scout/.
I guess as long as I haven't come up with my idea for the Next Great American Novel, then I have to be content discovering other people who either have or who have managed to produce something in words that I find worthwhile. Or maybe I'll just go the Keillor route and start up an old-time Yankee version of what he's done with his radio show. I think it could be quite the production, in a good old-fashioned sort of way. Fireside Chat, the remix.
