Prelude

Hello, my name is Brent and I'm a writer.

Well I'd like to think of myself as a writer. After all, as far as throwing around pretentious titles go, 'writer' is a sublime label that can be achieved by the simplest of simpletons. Now a doctor, lawyer, or secret agent, those titles require a degree or some sort of employment. But a writer is simply one who writes or has written. Writers are the vagabonds in the world of interesting titles. Now that I've said that, I feel I should rephrase the introduction into: "Hello, my name is Brent and I'm a vagabond."

So what is a vagabond doing writing among the infinite rants that fester on today's social network? I'd like to think of it as charity work. I'm providing a valuable service for people who enjoy a bit more than regurgitated updates about YouTube's famous "Ninja cat," or some little girl doing something cute at Disneyland.

Yup, I'm writing for the masses, all for my adoring public... ok, maybe it's not entirely charity work. Maybe I have a lot of free time and I want to make sure that if I'm not writing one thing, I'm at least writing another. However, since I do so enjoy feeding my gluttonous ego, let's just pretend it's charity work.