These days it feels like writing a blog post is a political act, and writing about people is always a slightly charged business, so when the scale tipped in favor, I thought I might as well combine the two activities. There you have it: my first post in nine days. I don’t know why ‘Answerman’ was chosen as a tagname, and I’m going to think of it as a portmanteau of ‘Answer it’ and ‘You The Man’ for now. This was what I went on to conclude, with some of the familiar queries, after the pseudonymous celebrity, which explains why I'm oh so popular, and why my headphones make a very familiar sound when the chat window pops up asking for advice.
That in itself is a good point: I'm not exactly endowed with an encyclopedia face, apart from the odd teasing glimpses and in the eye catches (while misleading, I have to admit). While there is, of course, no rule against a late pubescent introduction in a society that runs on endowment, this does make me wonder if a spring-tide countenance might be able to get the show running for a couple of seasons longer. As for the questions itself, I imagine the main objection to it is just how cliched they are. I read a lot of crap during my early adolescence, and those are not unlike them. At this point one would normally say something about intelligence being overrated and possibly impossible; I would add that we could do with a return to a more medieval respect for people who replay the ideas of past authorities on knowledge. I think I have a pocket tirade on ignorance and irritants about the past which I could deploy here, but I’m sure it would bore you, and in any case I just said that ‘I don’t know nearly as much as I should about the current state of things', which rather undermines my own scholarship.
Ah, well. I, for one, am quite happy to entertain more utterly conventional questions to queries about vengeance, kingship, and relationships, should any more delicious gossips get served. And you may have noticed that I finally killed the music.