It’s only fitting that my first blog-related anxiety begins at the beginning: the title. My original concept involved entitling this blog “pop culture pastiche”. But alas, the term “pastiche” smacked of a kind of literary snobbishness from which I’d prefer to refrain, really. Come to think of it, “potpourri” probably has the same level of pretension given that they’re both French and lend themselves to myriad forms of mispronounciation. But I’ll keep the title because a.) I would have to start an entirely new blog and honestly I’m just not up to that, and b.) As mildly anxious as I may be about the title, it still fits and is slowly growing on me as I type.
Now about the blog itself.
As I doubt that I am interested enough in the happenings of my own life to publicly blog about them, and as I have difficulty limiting myself to mandates narrow enough so that I can claim some authoritative knowledge, I’ve decided to devote this forum to analyzing, parsing, and musing about an absurdly ambitious behemoth of a topic: all things pop culture. This includes modern literature, films, music, television, and–begrudgingly-perhaps a smattering of celebrity happenings, if I find it to be indicative of something more relevant and interesting. This blog is not meant to be exhaustive or contemporary by any measure, as the motley assortment of posts will throw caution and chronology to the wind.
