So... Why THESE Topics?

When I'm hanging out at the traditional late-night blog mixers, I often get asked by the more traditional writers, "Mr. Mohtaz, why did you chose to focus your typings on those three seemingly unrelated topics?"

"First off, it's pronounced 'Mah-tuz,' like 'Not-as,' but with an 'M' instead of an 'N.'"

"Forgive me."

"Don't worry about it," I assure them. "It happens all the time."

"Oh, good," they sigh, and start filling their mouth with complementary shrimp as I explain that my reasoning for this blog fixation is like that of every other internet business: because there was almost a need for it.

These are three immensely popular topics, all of which have been more universally, more appropriately and more thoroughly covered by a multitude of better looking websites. But not all at once. And I'm willing to bet that there are probably a few people out there who wish the could read the words of a guy who simultaneously hums the "Batman Returns" chase scene music while imagining he's in a tunic and doing a guitar-riff leg kick. Just like they do.

While these are all independently popular topics, it stands to reason that if I cast a wide enough net, I'm sure to catch something. There must be others like me out there. There just has to be.

Although there's really doesn't have to be. A quick Google Image search of "rolling stones batman star wars" gave me mixed results, and the closest thing I could find to a thesis photo for this blog would be two covers for Rolling Stone magazine.

This one...

...and this one...

("Star Wars" has been on RS a number of times, but none of the others really compared with this one).

I'm pretty sure I don't have any exactly-like-minded friends in my close circle. I know many fans of "Star Wars," and there has been a major up-swing in the Bat-cult lately, but I usually lose people when it comes to the Stones. In an informal pole of my Facebook profile a few months back, I believe I had approximately 3 other friends who list the Stones under their Favorite Music Info (used to be you could just click on your info and get a list of friends who shared this commonality. Not any more. You really know what you're doing, Facebook). This may sound small, but keep in mind... I have about 500 friends. That's not small: that's infantesimal. Either they're all closeted fans, or they don't care that much, or that means that I know 497 other people who don't give a rat's rat about this band, and I kind of believe that. I've tried multiple times to convert/educate people to their gospel, with middling success.

But I'm not in the Trojan horse game with this site. Not at all. I'm in the worlds-coming-together game. I'm in the niche-market game. I'm hoping to discover others like me. Searching for people to do one-stop comiserating when things get rough, as they tend to do and don't seem to have any intention of stopping any time soon I'm staring at you, "Wars" legacy.

So hopefully some Batman fan will enjoy my take on how the old 60's show was an underrated source of great Batman material (more on that to come) and then discover my musical tastes and say to himself (or herself... but let's not kid ourselves), "Holy Giant Lips, Blog-man! I'm a new parent who likes listening to 'Goats Head Soup' when the sun's almost down and I'm driving on the highway with my hand on a lightsaber TV remote , too!" And then the probable-he will be sure to seek me out the next time we're all at the Blogger Mansion. I'll be the guy with his head in the chocolate fountain.