Send $5 to "What Was The Point?"

After yesterday's exercise in political drollery, I thought I'd take a moment to introduce my blog. Crudballs is a spin-off of Den of Inanity, a blog maintained by the Velour Fog. Just think of me as Stephen Colbert to the Fog's Jon Stewart or (perhaps less ambitiously) Rhoda to his Mary Tyler Moore. Between now and the time I start taking my job seriously, find a girlfriend or (which is perhaps most likely) can no longer afford to pay for an internet connection, I will maintain this blog as a forum for the dissemination of withering political satire, culinary and artistic criticism and, should the blog fail to attract a readership in its present form, Swedish pornography.

The road ahead will not be easy. But, to quote John F Kennedy, we choose to do these things 'not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win'. I leave you for today with those stirring words and with the following injunction:

Ask not what Chips Funklord can do for you. Ask what you can do for Chips Funklord.