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Hello there, eWorld. My name is Kevin Woodside and I am a blogger. This is far from my first blog, but it's something quite different from the others I maintain. What other blogs do I maintain? Well, let's go in chronological order here . . .

Since 2003, I've maintained a blurty. A blurty is a lot like LiveJournal, but stripped down and more Emo-tastic. Not that I'm very Emo, but I've come to appreciated it's simplicity. My blurty is where I talk about my personal life -- my problems, my successes, my family, my friends. Yadda yadda yadda. You get the point.

I also have a LiveJournal, which has since been retro-fitted to being a respository for old Fanfiction. He-Man fanfiction, if you can believe that. BELIEVE IT! A nerd, I am.

Furthermore, I have DA Journal (Deviant Art), which I up-date from time to time.

Finally . . . there's the Uncanny X-Periment, in which I have reviewed every single issue of Uncanny X-Men, X-Men, Astonishing X-Men, and X-Treme X-Men (as well as key issues in the X-Franchise). I'm up-dating from a back-log of entries now.

Anyways, so if you're reading this and wondering why in the world I would launch yet another blog, I most certainly have an answer for you.

I'm a writer. I'm not the best writer, but after a long "career" in fanfiction and with the aforementioned Uncanny X-Periment coming up-to-date, I've decided to launch this blog in the hopes of being a little more . . . er, professional? Don't get me wrong, I love my blurty, but at the end of the day, I can't really provide a recap of what I got for Christmas as a legitimate writing sample. If I want to be a writer, I need to show off what I have.

What's the big difference between this and my blurty? Other than what I mentioned all ready, I don't want this blog to be just about me. I want this to be about something more than just how my day was or how awesome St. Patrick's Day was. I want this to count.

Now, again, this isn't discounting any of my other blogs. I'm very proud of the fanfiction I created (and still kinda create, but that's neither here nor there) and I hope that when I'm 80 years old, I still an e-mail telling me how much it was enjoyed.

It's just time for me to sharpen my tools.

This blog will contain random stories. Maybe a serial story, maybe just a snippet, maybe even a webcomic. I may write about religion and politics. I'll probably comment here and there on popular culture. Don't be surprised to find a review of something.

My hope is to up-date this as much as possible. Whether it's just a random idea or an all-out story, it'll be here. With my life as crazy busy as it is, I want to make my writing count. Putting this out there for all of you should hopefully do me some good.

I suppose I should wrap it up. For those of you that have stuck around past the initial 2-5 seconds that it takes a website to hold your interest, I appreciate it and I sincerely hope you return.

I'm certain there's at least one person out there wondering about the name of this blog. I'm not sure if it'll stick, but "Woodsidian" is a term a buddy of mine came up with after I wrote sentimentally about a drunken party. "Filled with the typical Woodsidian sentiment."

So, there's that.