The way stones don't

This is my first entry in my first blog since my attempt to start one in 2009 collapsed under the weight of my own busyness/laziness/couldn't-be-arsedness.

I will post the two (yes, count them TWO!) entries from that embarassing attempt at such a time as I can access the hard drive on the computer I wrote them on. Sadly that computer is no longer with us. It died on the first week of my university course - when I needed it most and could afford a new one least. So maybe sod's law was in cahoots with the literary standards agency to prevent me from degrading the blogosphere with my mind vomit. But I'm back. And this time I'm packing enough pent up diatribe to make the most hardened ranter wince (or cringe, perhaps).

So why the title? Honestly, because I set the blog up and before I could post anything I had to give it a name. If I couldn't even manage anything better than 'Lee's blog' or 'Life, the universe and everything' then I may as well just give up. So I thought '42' which was the meaning of life in The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. But that has also been overdone. But also in the first part of Hitchhikers he described the spaceships that destroy earth moments before they attack:

"They hung there, in much the way stones don't."

I love that line. And it's even better when you read it in the context of a novel and not in bastardised form from my (ailing) memory.
So, to try to put a bit of a thematic spin on latching on to that title: Some things do just hang there unquestioned and without explanation or justification. And like stones don't, they shouldn't. Things like bias in media. Social norms. Beliefs. Conventions. Privileges and rights. Prejudices and aspirations. In this blog I will have a little rant about some of those things and basically anything else.

Given how warped my forthcoming views may be, if anyone else is persuaded my them then I will have defied reality. If they aren't persuaded by them then the stones will still be hanging and reality loses anyway. Either way this is my little escape from reality. Its name's not down so its not coming in.