Some changes...

I guess it's the nature of a new idea to emerge less than fully formed. I've decided to make some changes already.

First, I've changed the title and address. Initially, for the first two hours of its thus-far short life, this blog was known as "The Sleaze Report", and was located at http://sleazereport.blogspot.com. I've changed this to "The Decadence Report", and the URL to http://decadence-report.blogspot.com. (I figured that hyphen in the address would make it a bit easier to read.)

I've also changed the text up at the top. The initial draft version read:

I like sleaze. In fact, not only do I like it, I approve of it. Thus I felt it would be an interesting idea to create this blog to have a place to post stuff about the Nature of Sleaze in the world today.

The reason for these changes is fairly simple--I realized that "sleaze" was not only too limiting a term, but carried an unfortunate negative connotation that I might not be able to get past. "Decadence," on the other hand, while being harder to type, can be easily interpreted as having a feeling of innocent naughtiness to it, rather than instantly conjuring up an image of unpleasant dirtiness. It can also include a wider array of related issues, which I also happen to be interested in: not just sex-related stuff, but a whole gamut of items which generally cause Miss Grundy to get her shit in an uproar.

[edited 19-April-2005]
I guess for now I'm just going to remove the text from the top entirely, and save it here. The Decadence Report is still in such an early, unformed phase that it doesn't really make sense to try to describe or summarize it now. So here it is, for safekeeping:

I like decadence. I also believe that decadence is an important component of a healthy society.

The purpose of this blog is not necessarily to explore this belief. For the most part, I will simply assume its truth. Rather, this blog is for exploring the nature of decadence, and for taking simple pleasure in its existence. And maybe, from time to time, for thumbing my nose at those who disapprove of it.