Bienvenidios.

Welcome to the Ramble. If you’re new to the site, you can see that a few of us have been posting over the past weeks, trying to determine if this was really a good idea or not. Please take a few moments to view all the posts thus far. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll probably dismiss this idea right away. But hopefully not.

For those of you invited to be authors, feel free to post whatever tickles your fancy. Just try to remember a few ground rules, which you can find after the jump (more on what that means, well…after the jump. Just click on the ‘Read the rest of this entry…’ link.).

Pardon the mess.

Just a heads up for all you contributors. I’m still tinkering with the layout and overall look of the Ramble. I’m trying to find a nice balance between looks and functionality. I finally found a third-party template that someone created, which is actually just a three-column version of the original template. But alas, the creator managed to mess up a few things in the process (“edit post” button is invisible, etc.).

So I’m gonna keep messing with it until I find something that works well. Forgive me for what might be jarring changes.

Feel free to give suggestions.

Photo courtesy of carpe icthus

Genesis.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

On the second day, God created email. And that was also pretty good. But one of his children began to abuse it. And God sighed.

So on the third day, Al Gore God created the Internet. “This’ll keep him busy,” he proclaimed. “Maybe now his friends will get some work done.” But the child just began emailing pieces of the Internet to his friends.

“Jesus,” God said. “He really doesn’t get it. They can already view the crap he’s send–…Oh fuck it.”

So on the fourth day, God created the blog. But the child wasn’t interested. So God showed him the power. The power of the blog. DCist. Wonkette. HotChicksWithDouchebags. Even a blog from someone he actually knew. But all of it just more ammo with which the child would pepper inboxes. “Oh for fu–… I’m just gonna have to let his friends drop the hint.” And they did. And the child finally got it.

So on the fifth day, The Mid-Day Ramble was born. And it was good. Because the child could share. And his friends could work. And they could share, too. And everyone could comment. And the heavens parted and the angels sang. And God went to the Raven, punched in 7602, sat down, and capped Adrian’s beer. And it was good.

So good.