When I considered contributing a blog to this Web site I had concerns that I would have trouble discerning what makes for blog-worthy discourse. Everyone who works with me knows that I first and foremost consider myself an editor-geek.

I am much more comfortable in the company of great book, film, and close friends than in the company of a sea of faces at a social event. That’s not to say, though, that I’m not personable and I can’t talk a good game about things that concern, inspire, and entertain me.

Not at all surprising, I am a media junkie consuming all types of media products just because they are available to me. I can have CNN on for hours at a time, but then and quite unexplainably, I can find myself sucked into The Real Housewives of Orange County or the latest installment of Top Chef.

I devour every issue of Vanity Fair —my God, the February issue was only 162 pages—this recession is even affecting Graydon Carter’s bottomline! I mostly enjoy the backstories they do on hedge fund billionaires, fabled families, and business titans. I also love to take in films, especially independent ones, whenever possible. I will rent or go to the 19th Street Theatre, one of our Valley’s most valuable resources. I get excited about things like NetFlix and when the new seasons of Rescue Me and Mad Men start.

I am dying to buy that new Seinfeld game, but my friends and family all say that no one will want to play with me because I am such an aficionado of the series. I am an aficionado of humor in general. I truly believe that I acquired what comedic timing I have from I Love Lucy reruns and I still get a kick out of Looney Tunes. Okay, obviously television plays a big role in my life.

When not watching it, I shop a lot. I return half of everything I buy—wrong size, wrong color, wrong lifetime. My iTunes collection is a mish-mash of standards like Chuck Berry’s, “Johnny B. Goode,” vestiges from my hair-band hay days, and heavy stuff from bands like Metallica and AC/DC. The last song I downloaded—Crush by David Archuletta. Go figure!

I consider the greatest innovation in my lifetime to be the Internet. Remember when going to the library was the only means of compiling a book report? Does microfiche even exist anymore? The Internet changed everything for the print journalist. In some ways it made our jobs easier, and in others, it took jobs away. The downside is they will continue to go away, as the ways we receive media changes and grows. In my view, I am embracing the change so I will be ready and receptive for when the next big thing hits.

So I expect that these are some of the things I will blog about, so if you, too, are a media junkie I hope you will join me. And hey, if you are a Seinfeld fan, give me a holla’. I may go out and buy that game after all.