Blogathon 2003 – Prelude

Well, tomorrow morning at about this time, I’ll be getting up to kick off the Blogathon. I could have wished for a bit more sleep this week, but that’s how things go.

I rather shamelessly sent out a mass mailing last night to both family and friends, and to subscribers to my quote-a-day list, drumming up sponsorship. Asking for money is not something that I easily do, but I figured if there was an excuse to do it, this probably qualified. I also cunningly sent it out at the last moment, so that folks could say, “Oh, hey, didn’t check my e-mail until Monday, so it was too late, but I sent in a fat donation to the CBLDF anyway …”

Since I’m doing this for the CBLDF, I’ve decided my theme will be reviews of current comic books, plus some related posts. We’ll see how well that goes over the course of the 24 hours. My review posts tend to be long, which would mean that I’d be writing pretty much non-stop. Even my fingers aren’t that strong, so the number of comics reviewed per might not be that great. I have some other items in mind to leaven things out, though.

My plan is to start each half-hour with a timer going, then writing what I plan to write (probably using SharpMT so that I can save the post). Then, once the post is written, I can go off and do something else in the interim. Shower. Drink coffee. Drink Coke. Drink Jolt. Whatever.

But that’s all I’m doing — writing. One annoying bit about the Blogathon is that it brings out people with rather crazed ideas. I’m not going to have a web cam of my writing, nor am I going to be blogging from Central Park, or naked (so far as you know), or anything like that. It’s like folks who would say, “It’s not enough to run a 10K — I want to run a 10K in a clown suit,” or “I want to run a 10K while reciting the sonnets of Shakespeare.” Well, um, fine. Me — I’ll settle for running the 10K.

I’ll be prefixing all my Blogathon posts with “BT03,” and I plan on increasing the posts-per-page count beyond what it is now, so that if you tune in some time Sunday, you’ll be able to see the whole turgid mess.

If you find my own Blogathon blather boring, there’s a Blogathon webring up in the top of the side bar. Go and lend some support to some other sleep-deprived sorts.

And that’s about all that’s worth writing about that right now. To you newcomers, drawn here by idle curiosity (or spam-invoked fury), welcome, set a spell, browse if you like. Things have been a bit calm around here of late, but hopefully there’s something here you’ll enjoy reading. Or, if not … well, the folks off there in the sidebar are all good reads — check one of them out.