Sunday, November 30, 2008

The Akiyama Comma

I like commas, probably because they let me take a breath without really coming to a stop, which is something I rarely do, because why stop when a pause will suffice? I once had a teacher when I was in high school, you know, one of those influential types, the sort that made you feel cool because he used a nickname to call on you instead of your given name, and not one of those nicknames that rhymed with astard or turk. He called me Akiyama Comma, probably just because it rhymed, but I liked it and appropriated it for any and all self indulgent publishing I did, be it a class project or, upon the advent of the internet, a website or blog.

The purpose of this Comma shall be to record some of the things that give me pause and may, should you have enough free time to kill perusing things like personal blogs, give you pause as well.