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Well, this is it. Here we go. With this post, the Realm of Rant has officially commenced...

But, before I get started, I am going to attempt to roughly define my purpose, here, and delve, ever so slightly, into my background (for those of you who care). I will begin with the latter...

I've always had a rather active (some would say "wild") imagination, and a proclivity for story telling (some would say "stretching the truth," or flat out "lying"). I deny none of this, of course. I mean, where would we be without story tellers? We would never have shared in the great adventures of Huck Finn. We would never have known Atticus Finch, Holden Caulfield, or Captian Ahab. Nor would we have shared in the equally great and unfortunate misadventures of Bugs Bunny or Homer Simpson... However, while I certainly challenge the presumption that pushing the limits of reality -- or one's perception of reality -- is a bad thing, I am aware that my appetite for the absurd and the abstruse is not always a healthy one.

With this said, there is a time and a place for story telling. One of my enduring weaknesses -- as many people can attest -- is that I rarely possess the ability to distinguish the proper time to tell tales from the absolute improper time to do so. Again, I do not deny this. Nor will I aplologize for it. Though I am working at channeling certain aspects of my personality into more appropriate (read: constructive) areas of my life.

So, how does all of this fit into the blog's grand scheme, you ask? Excellent question. The Realm of Rant will be an outlet for my creative impulses, though the majority of what I post here will be based in fact, in reality. I may digress from time to time, but you can rely on what I write to be mostly inspired by actual people, places, times, and events. Those times that I am hypothesizing, or completely spinning a yarn, I promise to be forthright about it, and to properly clue you in.

My interests range from the mature (business, economics, history, politics) to the often-less than-mature (sports, film, music, and food). As such, I will blog about whatever strikes me as pertinent or necessary, as often as it does. It is a simple idea, I know. And it will evolve into whatever it does.

Stay tuned...