Seasoned Greetings

Salutations, lurkers of the world wide web. I would like to start my first post by giving a little background info on myself, and also my reasons for setting up shop in my own little corner of the internet.

I'm a 24 year old male who was born and raised in Lafayette, Louisiana--the heartland of Cajun country. With the exception of a brief relocation to Baton Rouge for 2 years, I've lived here my entire life. I graduated from the University Louisiana at Lafayette with a degree in economics and managed to walk off the stage with my dipoma at the very beginning of this little recession our nation is facing.
I started this blog for a couple of reasons. The first being my love for writing. Throughout the course of my academic career thusfar, I've always enjoyed the art of the written word, and I suppose it has always come easy to me. I considered it as a career path at one point in my life, but the instability of it as a means to make a living caused me to take the road more travelled. Aside from that, I think it would be safe to say that most people, especially those belonging to my generation and the those to come, no longer partake in reading as a hobby. The laws of supply and demand would show us that without the demand for things to read, there need not be a supply of writers. It would also be safe to say that the final frontier for us writers has taken the form of the blog. I suppose I'm a little late on this, in a sense that it seems like every Joe Shmoe has a blog nowadays, but fuck it...it's free.

The second(and equally important) reason for this blog is to provide my insights, rants, diatribes, reviews, critiques, and sometimes meaningless blabber about the culture surrounding me. This is the part I'm sure most of you will be the most interested in. As time goes by and I start to accumulate more blog posts, my goal is to not only give readers from around the world a first hand view of the modern Cajun culture, but also how events/beliefs/etc. are filtered through the microcosm in which I live.