Cheers to my new blog!

I've toyed with starting my own blog for some time, like most self-absorbed digital junkies.

The inspiration for me to actually do something arrived from an unlikely quarter. It was Rachel Fuller, Pete Townshend's gorgeous (and talented) singer/songwriter/girlfriend.

I am a bit of an Anglophile and recovering Who-addict. I visit Townshend's site often, because he is intelligent, controversial, and never boring. When he urged his fans to check out Rachel's blog, at rachelfuller.blogspot.com, I couldn't resist. Now I'm hooked.

She made her blog appear so effortless and simple, I thought "why not?"

I made up the name "Ironisphere" because . . . well, all the good names that I could think of were already taken. But the name combines one of the most over-used (and mis-used) words ("ironic") with the word "sphere" (which suggests something blog-like). So, the title for my blog is at least as self-important and pretentious-sounding as I am!

My goal is to write a thing or two that is human, or at least human-sounding, about anything that's interesting . . .