Under Construction: The Lost Games

It seems as if I grossly underestimated what it takes to be a blogger. When I woke up with the wriggling worm of words dancing about in my head I plopped myself down in front of my MacBook Pro and began to type. By fumbling through my google account I stumbled on an interesting find. Apparently in 2009 I had a similar Jones for the written word as I found an old blog that I started called: "Donnie & Darko: The Lost Years." A very thinly veiled reference to former Knicks president Donnie Walsh, first round bust Darko Milicic and of course Jake Gyllenhall's best movie east of Brokeback Mountain; Donnie Darko. The blog started and ended there, with a name. Nary a post, draft or idea. I guess that had a lot to do with the fact that I thought I couldn't get more sardonic than the title so what's the point. There is no doubt that before naming the now defunct Donnie blog I had recently learned the word Sardonic and tried desperately to be so. Still not sure if I nailed it.

I immediately thought to myself, this time it will be different and I will just give it a name, not care about the title and start to write, which I have done. The feedback I have received has been at its high tearfully inspiring, and at its low laugh out loud funny. The most constructive feedback that I have received came from my Cunado, who told me what I already knew. You have to separate the sport analysis pieces from the human interest pieces for the sake of your audience. I couldn't agree more...but how?

Do I start another blog, do I rename this one, can I have two running blogs under one blog, what is a blog anyway, do I have an audience who even cares: my mind ran wild with questions for which there were no answers. I have spent the past five days working through a plan of how best to proceed and am inching closer to reaching a conclusion that I think best suits my goals, and what I am trying to accomplish. In the interim, I have been remiss in my duties to those audience members (Dad) who are interested in reading my pre/post Knicks game analysis and reports and for this I apologize. We can call the past two losses the lost games, and since I am a Time Warner Cable subscriber I couldn't think of a more apropos title.

I will continue to post here, at Mydaughtersknicks.blogspot.com for the remainder of the weekend but expect big changes come Monday. As for tonight's game analysis stay tuned; I am already working on a title so sardonic that the irony would make Alanis Morisette go down on you in a theater.