Back in the days when I did a lot of public speaking, I was advised by an older and much more experienced colleague that I should never start out by saying "I've never done this before". He said that if I know the subject matter and present myself as an expert in my field, then my audience won't know the difference.
Since my subject matter is ME and MY views on everything, I am confident that any readers this blog may attract will except me as an expert in my field.
So here's a brief rundown of who I am and why you should be fascinated by me:
I am a 49 year-old gay white man living in the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwestern Virginia with my partner of nine years, 3 cats and 4 ducks.
I am an ordained minister in the Universal Life Church, but as an agnostic, I refuse to preach publicly. At first I decided to become ordained minister just as a goof. Later I found that when I put "Rev." next to my name when signing online petitions, I got a hand-written response from elected officials. Politicians are so predictable.
Being Rev. Steve has given me a renewed sense of purpose in life. I feel politically empowered knowing that adding just three letters to my name can get the attention of the hate-mongering rednecks and self-glorifying a**holes that run this country. It also amuses me to no end.
So why do I want to write a blog when there are way too many of them already? I figure there's got to be a better way to make a living that slaving away for 40 hours a week. Yes, I want this blog to be fun and profitable. I hope to make it as entertaining as possible for any potential readers, but I also want to make a buck if I can. If that bloated-embarrassment-of- a-gay-man Perez Hilton can do it, so can I.
I want to join the ranks of the Web Celebrities that become rich and famous for nothing in particular. I want to be a cewebrity. Yes, I just coined a new word. (Unless somebody else has already made up this word, then I'll just steal it.)
I promise you I will post something interesting every day and invite your comments and input, but as a cewebrity, I may ignore you completely, unless I really like your shoes.
Rather than listing all of my interests here, I hope you'll discover the complexities of my fascinating story through my postings. They will be so riveting and insanely funny that you will talk about them to your friends and co-workers, email them with annoying regularity to everyone in your address book and print them out so you can paste them to your refrigerator door.
Thanks for stopping by.
Rev. Steve
