Formspring.me is stupid, so I’m going to do something pretty much exactly like it.

Before I get started, I need to say this:

I’ve tried it both ways(… shut up), this blogging crap is one hell of a lot easier with twitter and facebook and all that other well-developed social networking stuff than not.

Moving on.

You’ve heard of formspring.me, right? I’m not going to link to it directly because formspring accounts directly lead to spammy twittering, but you can go find it if you like. Formsprings fascinate me. They’re little doodads that run a little blog-type-things, and they function somewhere between advice columns and blog comments. Formspring is… a very specific sort of interaction that’s common on the internet, but has never really been distilled down in this manner before.

In the past, I’ve aspired to be an advice columnist. For a very short time, I actually was an advice columnist. Formspring is a perfect cocktail for getting me completely obsessed. I found the actual Formspring website a little… extraneous, so I built my own.

Let me introduce a new toy on the blog, my Fauxspring. Go there, ask questions, get blogged, and if you want to keep an eye on questions and answers as they happen, click here for past questions.

And, since all this social networking is so efficient, I posted a link to twitter and got the first question in precisely 9 minutes. Here we go!

When will something good happen for me? -The Wizard of Gosz

Good things happen all the time. I’m a bit of a Pollyanna, sure, but going through life being easily delighted makes life kind of delightful. Even when the rest of the world is shitting on your head, there are lots of little insignificant good things happening to you all the time. Pay attention and enjoy making the green light or spotting a wacky customized car or pulling a comically huge potato chip out of the bag. I’m not going to say it’ll cascade through the rest of your life and improve everything, but it’ll make the moments between the momentous a little less insufferable.