Everything is anathema

My first one, in fact.

Why now? I have no definitive answer beyond "I felt like it". I have always shied away from the idea of creating a blog simply because of the associated vanity a blog implies. Fortunately DC makes it so easy to blog that I feel a little more ok with the concept. I couldn't stomach actually going to the effort of setting up a domain, or even a blogspot account, simply so that the world be entreated to my verbosity. Really one needs a good reason to do that. Within the poker sphere it is fine to do that if,  for example, your name is Jay Rosenkrantz. It is not fine to do it if your name is Bob Random and you grind NL25. Outside of the poker sphere it is ok to blog if you have genuinely interesting topics to blog about (Guido Fawkes strikes me as particularly relevant UK-based example). If you don't have anything interesting to blog about it is still ok as long as you are a brilliant writer. It is not ok to blog a kind of drawn-out elongated twitter-vomit.

Here are some poker-related facts about me:

I play mostly 2/4, 3/6 and 5/10, 5 and 6max NLHE.
I coach up to 1/2 NLHE.
I am a player first and a coach second.
I will not post a pretty graph. I don't particularly care if anyone knows I am a winner or not. If I were to post a graph it would show me beating the games I play in for an expected winrate. That isn't very exciting. If I do something truly amazing, like beat 5/10 6max for 9bb/100 over a huge sample, I promise I will post the graph.

Here are some things I have done this week:

Taken a shot at 10/20 (it didn't go well, it was fun, I improved)
Downloaded the Yeasayer album Odd Blood (would I recommend it? Yes I would. Does that mean anything to you? Possibly not).
Watched Chris Morris' Four Lions (but we all know the man's a genius, so I'm sure this is on everyone's to-do list)
Stepped in human poo (I have an 18 month old, not a bowel condition)