I feel so strongly about this that I'm going to make it its own post:
I hate the word blog.
I fucking hate the word blog.
Working hard to craft a piece of writing and then calling the thing you publish it on a blog is exactly like getting dressed up for a night out in your finest clothes, the ones you feel super-sexy and crazy-confident in, the ones that elevate your carriage so much that heads turn everywhere you go, and then once you're totally put together and everything is just so and you're feeling really sharp, squatting down and shitting yourself.