You Are Now Entering ... the Obsidian Zone.

It's time to kick off the inaugural post of The Obsidian Tower Intellectual! Did I time it for January 1st deliberately? Indeed I did. Is this a "New Year's Resolution"? Absolutely not. I find yearly resolutions to be a joke, personally. If you're going to do it, you should do it regardless of the day, or whether it's a social custom to publicly declare one's intent to "improve" one's self at the same moment you switch out your Far Side calendar for a Dilbert one.

The truth is that I decided to start up this blog in the middle of December, and didn't have time with all the Christmas preparations. I figured a couple extra days would be worth not having maybe two "2010" posts hanging like an afterthought on my archive calendar. So, not a resolution. If anything, it's a touch of OCD.

So what is an "obsidian tower" intellectual? The phrase "ivory tower" has, of course, a negative connotation. It denotes something shining and pure, but because of its removal from society (and its impracticality -- ever try building anything out of ivory?) rather than because it really is something to look up to. I call myself an obsidian tower intellectual because I want to show that there are more ways of being an intellectual or an academic than being part of the Ivory League.

(Also, as you can note, I'm not above bad, bad puns. Which brings up a question: is there such a thing as a good pun?)

What will be covered in this blog? Quite a lot of it will center around literature and art, but due to the nature of my interests this will delve quite a bit into history and philosophy, and consequentially dip into politics and religion on occasion.

Well. Let's see how things go.

Geronimo!