Starting Along the Road to Dictionopolis...

"Interesting blog title," you may say.

And I may say, "Hey, thanks!"

Or, you may say, "I don't get that blog title, Nate. Your blog title makes no sense to me."

To which I may say, "You should really read The Phantom Tollbooth, a delightful children's story."

Of course, you might retort, "I didn't come here for a homework assignment, man."

Leading me to respond with, "Don't bring the the 'tude, chief. I'm just trying to share with you a book that meant a lot to me when I was a kid."

And you'll probably be all, "You think I have time to be reading all kinds of books? You have no idea how busy and important I am!"

And I'll be like, "First off, it's a children's book--it'll take you max 30 minutes to go from cover to cover. Second, if you're really so damn important, why are you surfing blogs at work? Third, you're ignorant."

Hopefully at this point we'll both realize that we may have started off on the wrong foot.

My point is simply this: the blog title comes from a book called The Phantom Tollbooth. If you haven't read it, it tells the story of Milo, a young kid who drives this sweet go-kart through a magic tollbooth and gets plopped in the middle of a fantastic land filled with talking dogs, puns, sunrise orchestras, and what I have to assume are some seriously A-grade mushrooms.

The moral of the story is to learn, laugh, and appreciate the little things along life's journey. Sounded like a pretty good thesis statement for a blog to me. If you agree, hopefully we can travel a ways together.

If you don't, well... you can go fuck yourself.