Hello, My Name Is Kevin

OK … Kevin uncut and uncensored, take two …

As you’ve no doubt guessed by now from that unmistakably clear intro, this is my second attempt at a daily-ish blog. The first one, Sweet Home Sports, was strictly about the Chicago sports scene, and seeing as how it bubbled to the surface of my consciousness during the Bears’ Super Bowl run in the 2006 season, it was probably doomed to a quick death.

But even though I haven’t touched that blog in a few months, writing still is what I enjoy doing more than anything else in life. Taking those raw, rough concepts sloshing around in my brain, dumping them out on my screen and then shaping them and sculpting them into something that’s hopefully insightful and sometimes amusing is just my function. And seeing as how I have crude ideas about a lot more than sports, I’m going to take a shot at posting on general life topics.

There will still be a generous helping of sports, especially with the Cubs running away from the best division in baseball. But there will also be politics, gender issues (why IS it such a big deal for them to just put the damn seat down, anyway?), a few movie reviews, a little of what I’m going to whimsically label un-common sense and anything else that makes me want to opine. And I’m going to keep my Sunday morning one-liner recap of the previous week, which obviously will now entail more than just sports as well.

I’m a little concerned that broadening the scope won’t be enough for me to keep a blog going. After all, there’s been no shortage of material for a sports blog lately and mine is still lying dormant. One big reason is that I returned to the full-time working world this year, which is certainly a risk factor for this blog as well. But deep down at my core, I’m a writer, so I’m going to try to write.

Maybe no one will ever even read what I’m writing here, and that’s OK. I hope someone does. If you are out there and you like what you see, that would be even better, but if you don’t that won’t be enough to make me stop.