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I think my old school vicad blogging peer Mike Austin (Pilot) put it best when he mentioned the new "Myspacce" version of the advocate blogs. For the life of me, I was trying to place what was feeling different to me.about this whole site. When I first became a contributer to the Vicad blogs, quite honestly, I think my introductory email to the online powers that be, was that this would be the closest to a columnist for the Advocate as I would ever get, and I was quite proud when they gave me a little spot to call my own that even on occasion got to see print.

Now... it's a little different. You don't have to email anyone about your interest. You can kind of just open an account and start posting. While that is great for most people, I get the feeling that the whole "hip, cool, social networking of the Crossroads scene" may be a little out of my league. You see, I'm not much of a hip, cool, person. I like nerdy things, Idon't compromise much, and quite frankly I think I may be a bit of a jerk. This makes for great biased stories,articles, blogs and wonderful record reviews, but as a social networker... yeesh.

So while I am still trying to adjust to my former elitist ways and be a team player here, I need to find something that will help me establish myself as a contributor. I wrote a few days ago about my oppurtunity to write for a new up and coming website dedicated to video games. I recently got word that everything is good to go and am currently being brought on staff to write and give them random stories and accounts of my nerdiness. This is awesome because I get to establish myself as a staff member of something and try to fake my way as a member of the press to get me some decent interviews that I was lining up to do for other projects.