Basement Blogging

 Spike what is Basement Blogging? Is it when you sit in your stained computer chair wearing 3 day old fleece pajama bottoms and a Fruit of the Loom white t-shirt with mustard that dropped down from your boiled Oscar Mayer mystery parts hot dog (last nights dinner)? And I would tell you that is what my vision of most people who sit and blog could be, my present self included. I am not the picture of pretty at 1:41pm on a Monday still in my Saints t-shirt and snowman pj bottoms with lumberjack socks on cause it's too damn cold here in the Great White North. But I sit here wanting to share my thoughts with faceless unknown people just the same.

  

  I think Basement Blogging, I have made up this as a "term" not the group that is on Google, should be exactly what it sounds like. A small dark place in the corner in your basement ill-equipped with poor lighting , only ventilation coming from a vent that prisoners would bitch about and the smell of concrete that gives a faint odor you can't quite place. It could also be a term that may be useful in describing someone who has just started to Blog, such as myself, I am the one on the bottom. You know the one no one knows and their eyes glaze over as you mention their name. The word Basement really isn't a cute word is it? I mean, I hear basement I think dark, damp, laundry, you know everything I pretty much detest. It is also the one door that you close when people come over to visit trying to hide the mess of boxes and dusty exercise equipment so you don't appear too cluttered and messy. Isn't this something our parents taught us? Stuff things away quickly in the basement and closets so we appear all polished and clean?? I was in my house. So the word basement is your houses' negative room, the black sheep of the modular family. Over the years we have tried to turn this fowl word into something cute like rumpusroom, recreational area and family room. All these words still feel the same. With that being said, I must point out that your effort to clutter this unforgiving room is greatly appreciated by the spiders and mice as now a home of their own. Thus making you an Environmentalist. So give yourself a pat on the back, jump into your chair and cry "I am Proud To Be A Basement Blogger" ~T.S.