The Emperor's New Blog

I just got up the guts to create a blog, and I posted my first piece to it. Maybe I didn’t give anyone the URL, but it’s still a step towards renewing the great work and great pleasure that writing is for my. I clicked “post” with a satisfied, almost smug look on my face, and the computer flashed back “congratulations! You have just posted your first blog! And we think it’s just plain terrific!” So maybe I read between the lines a little, but still, the perceived (if fictional) compliment made the satisfaction turn the corner to smugness until I clicked “view my blog” and discovered that there was nothing there. A frame at the top, but that’s all—no clever blog title, no first-step-to-a-pulitzer posting. Just a blue line at the top that let’s me read other people’s blogs. The girl in the blog next to me is showing up JUST FINE, and she’s not even literary! I can be a real bitch when I don’t get what I want. My fake blog page even taunts me with a button to add another posting, as if I want to go through the whole dejection phase again. No, I’m well into the angry-for-a-stupid-reason and gonna write about it phase. Oh, those little programmers at google—they’re so hip, so rich, so clever, so why doesn’t my blog work?