Intro

According to Wikipedia (because of course I haven't read the book...YAWN), the Black Swan Theory as articulated by Nassim Nicholas Taleb refers to a large impact, hard-to-predict and rare event beyond the realm of normal expectations. Wiki goes on to say that, "the term black swan comes from the commonplace Western cultural assumption that 'All swans are white'. In that context, a black swan was a metaphor for something that could not exist. The 17th Century discovery of black swans in Australia metamorphosed the term to connote that the perceived impossibility actually came to pass. Taleb notes that John Stuart Mill first used the black swan narrative to discuss falsification."

Thanks Wiki! Who doesn't love Wikipedia? And Google. What did we do before Google? And before we had Google on our phones? We were just loud and wrong all the time. But I digress.

This blog is called Black Swan even though it seems narcissistic to refer to oneself in such grand terms because 1) there are very few people like me who do what I do (unfortunately) and 2) when I say "like me" that really doesn't mean what it seems to mean on the surface, 3) I should capitalize on this feeling of isolation, 4) I went through a long phase lasting at least 20 years that could be called ugly duckling years and 5) blogging is narcissistic and self indulgent anyway so why not just run with the grand name, right?

So...I'm taking a real stab at this after keeping an Inauguration blog that my friends seemed to really enjoy. I also had a little student blog during be skool that had a small following. But all of that was controlled. Now I'm putting myself out there on the entire world wide Internets for people who don't know me or aren't connected at all to read.  Oy vey am I nervous.

Anyway the subject of this blog will be my life and my sarcastic observations thereof. I live in Manhattan and enjoy having adventures either personally or vicariously via reality TV. I'll check in at least once a week but perhaps more often.  Hope you like it!

PS No I don't know what falsification means either but that's beyond the scope of this post.