Hello World!

13th December 2009

Welcome, pilgrim. My name is Tom Fog, and this is my brand-spanking-new blog. I had originally planned to write some sort of tech blog (hence my use of the classic “Hello World” title), but seeing as I do enough coding and poking around in the arse-end of computers for my day job, I’ve opted to do something else here instead. The only problem is that I have a wide range of highly niche interests—gigs, video nasties, tattoos, reading, cactus growing, GG Allin & Sebastian Horsley, and so on. A bit of a mixed bag.

With this in mind, don’t expect any specific focus to these writings—only know that I am here to do the devil’s work (and hopefully be funny along the way). It could be rich and varied, or it might turn out to be aimless and disparate. Time will tell.

Several years ago, I did an English Literature degree, and writing is a hobby I’d like to rekindle. The degree was also split with philosophy, which means I’m good at talking absolute codswallop. I will probably try to share some of my music reviews and perhaps other assorted opinion pieces, anecdotal stories, and maybe poems. I’m hoping that it will be a fun hobby for me and that people might enjoy reading what I have to say. In my mind’s eye, I am a razor-sharp raconteur who will be casting his critical eye over the latest fads and trends, but there’s no way it will be that good.

Expect lots of cynicism, pessimism, and sarcasm. And what I lack in spelling ability and grammatical structure, I will endeavour to remedy with swearing.

Please note—most of the images included were found online and, in some cases, edited (badly) by me. If you are the owner of the original image, please contact me, and I will either credit you in the article or remove the image immediately.

Thanks for reading…