My name is Tommie Hu$tle and I am a blogger.

I am a blogger, I admit it. I'm someone who puts my personal thoughts on the internet for the perusal of others. I look at the word blog and bloggers and say to myself who was the retard who came up with that word? It has to be the most retarded word I could think of. From what I have been told blog is short for weBLOG. Short??!?!?!?

How lazy do you have to be to cut the 'WE' out of weblog? I mean did they have a meeting and decide that the average web user didn't have time for two syllables? Did 'W' and 'E' have a prior engagement and couldn't make it to the meeting. Or did "Are" and "Family" want to get the band back together for a reunion tour? I'm mean damn. 'W' and 'E' are fucking next to each other on the damn keyboard. Have we gotten that lazy?


That was just a bit of a rant. But anyways I was talking to my Dad the other day and I was blessed with a awfully good signal and we talked for a bit about the blog and "Dad's" school and just kinda a bit of everything. I try and call back on the weekends and talk to him when I can. But as all things blog we got to talking about the apparant success of it and had a real discussion about why people are attracted to my blog and we got into the idea of why people like blogs in general.


Ever since I've started doing this my Dad has said that the work is good and I should think about shopping this as a book. I'm kinda whatever. I mean I'm no fool and I know that the work is good. But, I don't see this as book material it's too jumbled and really it is a collection of random thougts. My Dad's thought is that people like this blog because it's human and that people when they read a blog like mine they are looking for a human connection. I thought about it and I think he is right. We are so inudated with infomation today that we don't have time for ourselves. We are always 'on' and because of that I think that we don't have the time to make meaningful relationships. We don't have the time to bond anymore. We have access to more information than we have ever had in the whole of human existance yet that information hasn't given us more insight to the human condition. I think it has given us less insight to the human condition, or a the very least less time to ponder the human condition. It extends to our treatment of people around us as well. We are closer to people than we ever have been and we now have less to say. We limit our converstions to what we can fit in a 160-character text buffer. We have time for 'whut up?' but we don't have time for "How are you doing today?"

We live in a upgradeable society. We can get everything faster, bigger, and more options and when you think you got the top of the line two weeks later something better comes along. We have applied Moore's Law to the spectrum of human relationships. If someone doesn't look or doesn't do exactly what we want them to do when we want them to do it we tell them get to stepping. I mean you can always find something better, right? If I don't look they way I think I should I can have it nipped, tucked, shortened, elongated, reduced, added, I mean I can make myself what every I want. If I don't do it at the end of a knife I can do it with the pop of a pill. Don't like your reality, no matter you can make your own. What we forget is that people aren't things. Our technology has evolved our minds and our emotional needs have not, yet we are expected to.

I think the reason why relationships don't last long is because people know they do not have to try. It's funny to me that the increase in computing power has pretty much corresponded with the decrease in the need to get married or the length of marriges. The more we can see the more we want. However, the question must be asked; just becasue I see something does that mean I need it or that it is for me?

Do a google image search on the term "sexy women" it will come up with 82,800 hits in about 0.09 seconds. I mean we are bombarded with images and sites and sounds of what we 'can' or we are told what we 'should' have. We have talk show hosts that can solve any problem in 26 minutes or less. Everything is a problem, you can be fixed, it can be fixed. There doesn't seem to be a place in this world that is fine the way it is. All of these images that look ready and willing to appease or solve or fix. We forget that they are only images not reality. In fact many images we see about the perfect life or fixing your problems are carefully crafted advertisments desinged to seperate you from your money.


We don't really know people around us. Blogs allow us to learn someone, get to know someone, to develop a personal relationship with someone. We develop this closeness with these characters. That is why we in are so enthralled with the tinyest of details when it come to celebrities. We want to have a true connection with someone, anyone and in this virtual world we have that connection. I am fully aware that Tommie Hu$tle is a caracture of me, he exists yet he doesn't (well he does to several federal law enforcement agencies). However, there are people around the world who have gained understanding of their own lives from reading about mine. I get emails all the time from people thanking me for putting this out or asking me for advice about things that I think are very personal. To me it seems that they are asking these questions to a complete stranger. To them they are not Tommie Hu$tle is a confidant, an 21st century confessional if you will. They trust Tommie Hu$tle and they believe in him. They see him as a confidant.