In Which We Welcome A New Feature To Our Humble Internet Abode

All right, I’m not promising this is going to be a long-running thing. Frankly I’ll be amazed if it lasts more than a few weeks because given the demands on my schedule – work, Quizo, school (two classes this summer), video games, football (that’s soccer to you), comics, a whole stack of those Blackwell “Pop Culture and Philosophy” books (I am currently sifting through the 24, Lost, Bruce Springsteen and Galactica editions), poker, going to the shore, and very occasionally sleeping – I am not exactly swimming in free time. Hell, if I get this off NEXT week I’ll be pretty goddamned impressed with myself.

That said, this is something that’s been on my mind for some small while now. I figure who better to share it with than my Devoted Reader?

Our new feature came from a conversation I had – I won’t get into the nitty gritty – but it boiled down to me dismissing an aesthetic choice one of my friends made as, “[X] is one of those things you think is great when you’re twenty that when you’re thirty you realize is really bad.” I’m not going to reveal X just yet since I’m going to want to talk about it if by some strange alignment of the planets this thing actually keeps happening for a while. But you get the idea. Things you think are great when you’re young and as you get older and wiser not only realize are bad, but you feel stupid for liking in the first place.

I had mentioned elsewhere on the internets that I was thinking about doing a feature like this but needed a better title than “things you think are great at 20 but realize suck at 30,” and now I think I’ve finally found one, and it even fits in with the general theme around here.

So, give it an hour from now, maybe an hour and a half – I’ll be working on the piece over lunch – and tune in to the first installment of “Your Thursday Regret.”

JLK