Enter the Pickle

"After Benny pickled The Beast, his reputation spread all over town.  

From then on, he was known as Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez.  

And the nickname stuck with him for the rest of his life."

-The Sandlot

Dear Readers,

It is with great pleasure that I invite you to follow my blog, Pickle the Beast.  Here is where I examine what it means to find solutions to everyday problems posed by that Beast we as human beings know all too well:  Life.  Topics that will be discussed include the mundane, the super-mundane that I attempt to make interesting, that which is already interesting without interference, and the BIG PICTURE.

Yes, the blogosphere is saturated with useless, self-indulgent information.   I once scoffed at the idea of writing a blog because I could not, in good conscience,  take that much time out of my very busy schedule to carefully create and maintain an identity for myself on the Internet.  But, since school has let out, I have spent approx. 40% of my time on facebook, and the majority of that has been looking at pictures that I myself have posted or appear in.  So much for holding out against self-indulgence.

And so I enter the blogosphere with three goals in mind:  1) To keep my friends and family updated with stories from Argentina, where I will be spending the month of June.  2) To attract extremely beautiful women by virtue of my writing SKILLZ.  3) To pass on wisdom and advice to my readers on how to pickle their own beasts, no matter how hairy, and no matter how many autographed baseballs are lost in the process. 

Please enjoy.  (And if you don't, then please do not tell me about it.)

Take care.

Tommy