I’m doing a little research into a bygone era and thought it might be interesting to blog about antique events as if I were someone of that era. It may take a little time to get into the voice, but hopefully it will be somewhat entertaining. The “antique blog” will run in a brown color to offset it from my usual blogging.

I have discovered a recent phenomenon for which Edison would give his teeth. In coming years I suspect this phenomenon will sweep the nation, if not the entire earth. The new feature of which I speak is blogging.

Like an editorial that runs in the Times, a blog is a journal or an editorial that has new editions daily or even bi-daily. It is a product of this modern age that I can take a pen and spew forth my opinions that will immediately be typeset, printed, and distributed upon my immediate retracting of pen from paper. I would have preferred to call this new fancy something more descriptive—immeditorial, for example—for blog sounds as if it were something one might do with his nose.

Monday I will begin with events just days old; events that will hound my mind until peradventure I can strike words to paper. Farewell until Monday.