I’ve come up with a new mission statement for my blog. You want to hear it? OK, here it is:

Don’t suck.

That’s about it. My blog, C’est Non Un Blog, was started my last semester at college after my friend Mike started up his own after getting hooked on someone else’s. I’ll be honest with you, I thought the idea was stupid at first. Post your diary online for everyone to read? Yeah, no thank you. But after reading his blog for a little while, I got hooked. Well, I’d like to think that. More likely it has to do with the fact that I’m an attention whore with a weakness for wanting to be a part of new fads if I think everyone else is doing it. Yes, I do believe that’s called peer pressure.

I’ll be honest with you, my blog sucked at first. Every time I go back and read one of my old entries from my original blog on Blogger I wonder what the hell I was on. What a crap storyteller I was! Everything is just random observations of things I thought I’d never forgot, and of course forgot almost instantly after posting them. That went on for a while. I started reviewing things, a tradition I’m happy to say I brought back this year, but all of that ended for a while when I started my new job at Bose, almost a year after I started blogging. Then everything ground to a halt. Posts were rare and sporadic. Often times very dull. I’m glad I still have all of you readers who stuck through the dry times.

Some of my regular readers might have noticed a little change over the past month on what kind of content makes it onto my site. Well, first off, there is actual content, beyond the (usually) late movie reviews and random bitch sessions. I want to attract more readers, or at the least keep the ones I’ve got, so I’ve made a conscious decision to liven up my posting schedule by giving you more of what you want.

This decision came to me through several different channels. First off, one of you was polite enough to ask me where the hell all of the personal details of my life were and I kindly obliged. Then I unofficially entered the Yo La Tengo Blog Challenge, where participants pledge to blog at least once a day for the rest of the year. So far, so good. I didn’t officially enter though because I pretty much figured that once I went to Seattle the whole posting every day thing would fly with me out the door for the week. I’m kind of thinking that was a stupid, cowardly decision, but no bother. Finally I picked up a book to help me on my quest for better blogging. The book in question: No One Cares What You Had For Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog by Margaret Mason, AKA Mighty Girl. I love reading her blog and the book is likewise filled with great ideas for freshening up your blog. If you are serious about blogging I suggest you pick it up too.

So that’s it. “Don’t Suck.” I hope I’m succeeding in my quest. One final thing, which is something I’d like to now ask of you. I don’t talk to most of you who read this very often, or at all. So therefore everything you know about the “me” of right now is based on 3 years of blogging. If you would be kind enough to take the time to do so, could you reply in my comment section what your general impressions of me are from my blogging? When you click on my blog and start reading, what do you generally expect to read? I want to find out who my readers think I am. Thanks ahead of time for all of you who take the time to do so.

Also, if you blog and I don’t already know your blog’s web address, can you share the wealth? I’m addicted to reading blogs, checking all of my regulars more than once a day, even though it seems that I’m always either bitching that people post too much or not enough. Especially if you read this and I don’t know you do, spread that sweet blogging love.