So what the hell is a wandering goat?

First, let me just say that the very idea of a blog authored by me is pretty reprehensible. I hate the word "blog", I don't know who made it up but they are probably pretty sucky - the portmanteau is a word format of the damned.

Even worse, the whole thing has been seized upon by self-important wannabes who feel it's their ticket to recognition as some sort of intellectual/insightful/quirky icon of post-modernism or politics or whatever. For god's sake assholes like that ruin everything.

The main reason why I'm doing this is because it's easier then sending out 1000 emails and it's an easy place to keep stuff so that I don't forget and that won't be stolen by South Seas pirates, etc. As for the name, "Wandering Ghost" is a chinese/buddhist concept of what happens to unfortunate souls. The story goes that if you do something bad, you turn into a wandering (or hungry) ghost when you die, traditionally portrayed with long skinny necks and a bulging (empty) stomach, condemned to wander around and be hungry for a few turns on the old wheel of life. Anyway I liked the name but the concept was too morbid, and the consensus, spearheaded by friend & colleague Amy, was to go with the old goat. That, and the fact that I couldn't think of anything that rhymed with "Dengue Fever"