Pour One For The "R"

A few years ago my dear friend Pickle told me of this guy she was talking to. She spoke of him highly and I listened along happily and then she sent me a link and suggested I read it. She told me it was a “blog”. “What the hell is that,” I asked her and she explained it in a few minced jumbled words; the bottom line was read it. This was the first version of what is now the R Spot and the writings were of the man who would later become her husband, Reggie. Back then, however, I was very slow on the uptake and regarded this with skepticism. I read a couple of items as she happily spoke of his writings. I had to admit, I was hatin a little but the man wrote well.

The two of them progressed along and time began to pass. Pickle and I didn’t talk as often and I found myself chatting with her online and playing catch up. At some point in the conversation, she asked me if I had a blog and I replied that no one would want to read it. Somehow the conversation stirred back towards her writer boyfriend and something he wrote which now escapes me. I can say it struck me enough to go to Yahoo 360 (and later to Blogger) and create a blog. The rest is bad history I guess.

The blog he wrote often carried thoughts of a Colorado-minded brotha who was living in the mad world of Southern California. He often wrote of various observations, be they of a political nature, sports or just entertainment in general. He truly excels and enjoys touching on more than just the “nightly news issues” or the primetime offerings of the Big 4 networks. He delves into trying to make light of things that may have gone under readers’ noses, especially in the vast land of cable television watching (his post on the 2007 television season is a brief look into what I have enjoyed).

It seems that the R-Spot is about to undergo a major face lift and I felt the need to pay my respects to my blogging sensei. When I first sat down to write his blog was what came to mind. “How can I be interesting and amusing?” “How can I talk about topics as they run through my head and flow them onto the screen for someone to roll their eyes at?” I am a guy, who took a couple of years of journalism back in high school, trying to write based on the blog of a person who is paid to write as his 9 to 5. It’s not going to measure up, but I have to try right?

Before it disappears take a peek at some of the posts at the R-Spot.

-J