Matt the Great

After receiving preliminary feedback from www.maTTThe great.blogspot.com beta testers, the biggest problem seemed to be an apparent lack of direction. Fair enough. The first post was all, "this blog's gonna be so awesome with all these recurring features and stuff," but then I ran into the problem of having to explain what the feature is all about in each feature's pilot. So to get us all off happily, I will introduce the features we've all been fired up for here. A couple of the features will need an introductory post, just to give you the template, but as I said earlier, the world is running. Let's go!

Fridays of Friendship: I will choose one friend and E!THS him or her. This is a blatant rip-off from GayNinjaRobot, but we're all cool since I don't think he's stumbled across www.maTTThegreat.etc. Friends, this is your space to shine! Originally, this was supposed to come every Friday, but after I started work on a couple, I realized these are really time consuming. So rather, these will come on sporatic Fridays. And why Fridays? No other reason than alliteration. You want a Friday of your own? Write me and tell me why.

Iron Chef: Zen Palate v. ___: Restaurant Reviews! Zen Palate is the base line for a good, solid eating out. I will isolate what components make ZP rock zenfully and see what restaurants hold up to or stumble in front of this sturdy comfort zone.

___ is a Lot Like A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN:

A League of Their Own : Film :: Zen Palate : Dining. This is the movie review corner. Like the ZP feature, I will isolate the goodness in ALoTO and point out why Movie X does all the same things to me. Unlike the ZP feature, these are all movies I like and am recommending.

Most Awesome Thing I Saw On TV This Week: Is just that. And then I write about it. These Things can be bad in the Michael Jackson sense meaning they're good or good in the camp sense meaning they're bad.

Reviews of Things I Saw on The Food Network: After things involving Gwen Stefani, The Food Network is the most important cultural artifact to me. I'm critiquing what works and what doesn't on the channel that can do no wrong (Rachael Ray, Paula Deen) but often does (Sandra Lee, Tyler Florence).

I think the novelty has worn off of blogging long enough ago so that I can become a blogger. I didn't start wearing cargo shorts until 2001; I discovered Blondie at age 21 which fell in Summer 2002; I am still an iHavenot. I don't have a finger on the pulse. It takes me a little while to adjust to what's hot.

But the main factor that's been keeping me away from Blogspot has been the pressure to make a cool blog. I can't be a "TODAY I DID THIS..."-blogger, nor a "THE THING ABOUT LIFE IS..."-blogger. Rather, this blog will be a collection of regularly recurring features. NoNoNo!!! That was, "...regularly recurring features!" They will be *that* exciting!

Together, we will explore such episodic posts as: Reviews of Things I Saw on The Food Network; Fridays of Friendship; The Most Awesome Thing I Saw on TV This Week; How ___ Compares to Zen Palate. There will be installments that come weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or even randomly. You will love coming back here, and you will leave me comments.

If you've found this manifestette, it means you've scrolled down. Before going public, I privately got my own ball rolling and ironed out my kinks. The world has already started. Glad you're here.