They did it again. Put me on the home page, that is.

Now, I will not say I love or hate that. Just that I am bit curious about the criteria part of it. How do they decide what goes to the home page? If the quality of a post is the sole criteria then I think I need to redefine my quality parameters. Sigh!

Anyways, here is yet another post about my blogging persona and what I imagine my blog to be.

Those who have already clicked the back button or have already moved to the comment window may please do so. The rest may carry on with this self indulgent gibberish.

First things first, some of you have said a few nice words about me and my avatar. Shyama was kind enough to mention that I actually look very dashing (the avatar, I mean). Thank you.

Actually the channel surfer in the Avatar is a character called Peter Griffin from the animated TV series The Family Guy.

Peter is a rather corny character, a bit stupid actually. He heads has a somewhat weird family; dysfunctional is too strong a word to describe it. He lives with his wife and kids. And of course Brian, the family dog who drinks martinis all the time. Peter is quite a bloke, the blue-collared, hoi polloi types.

He becomes my avatar. The common guy as common can be. No hi-funda, only chats. No supernatural, only natural. No paranormal, only normal. So much for my blog ‘positioning’- as the marketing dudes would say.

I don’t know how people see a blog. I see my blog as my living room. With me sitting on that green couch, surfing channels and sipping beer. The family hangs around, as Brian the dog helps himself with yet another martini.

People who land into the living room are my friends. We have free flowing conversations about anything and everything. Try to avoid gaali-galauj and personal insults, that is the only code of conduct.

Anything else works fine in those conversations. The last thing a living room conversation needs to do is to make any attempt to ‘change the world’. Any attempt at that makes it sound like gyan, and conversations tend to get boring if there is too much of a gyan-giving happening.

These are the leisurely conversations that become the posts to my blog.

Of course, my living room has an endless supply of chai and beer, essential ingredients to an ambling conversation. Drop in anytime, feel at home and may be we can end up having some fun in the process. Some fun. That’s all and that’s everything.