Déclaration de Mission

In a recent bout of not so uncommon laziness, Cherchez La Femme could not be sought, and I neglected to attend to this blog. I did not, however, neglect to think about this blog, and in doing so, think what this blog should be about. I have not yet found an identity, a niche under which to tightly huddle the subject matter that will be written about here. The two posts thus far have been similar, though. They are about people, profiles of interesting things those people have done, and how those things have come to fruit for me. In an unrelated bout of inspiration, I named the blog "Cherchez La Femme" in an attempt to rebut the term's assholey intentions and take it at face value, which is, in plain English, "seek the woman." So I guess I'll seek them out, women that is.

I know, I know, some of you are saying "But your last post was about Heath Ledger, and Heath Ledger is not a woman." To which I respond, "I know. And I don't care." If we're going to get really semantic about this, I would suggest, Matt McConaughey-from-A Time to Kill-style, "Imagine a blog called 'Seek the Woman.' Imagine that blog, defiantly making grand and sometimes erroneous generalizations about people and gender. Now imagine it called 'Seek the Man.'" When talking in generalities, referring to both genders of humankind, we tend to default to the male designation. The term "man" is often used instead of "human", and sometimes connotes a metaphysical notion of a collective soul (as in "man cannot live on bread alone" or "man is the cruelest animal"). So I will write about people. I think most of the time they will be women. I also think sometimes I will make things up about them.

Rest assured I will deviate from this frequently.