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Welcome to my blog, The Great Shark Hunt. The name is taken from the title of a book of essays by Hunter S. Thompson, one of my favorite writers. I intend to make this blog a collection of observations on many different things that I am interested in, including politics, sports, culture, music, books, as well as a place to put up some stories and poems that I have written. I hope to inject a sense of the coldly rational yet twisted, postmodern observations that are his hallmark, and the hallmark of another of my favorite writers, Kurt Vonnegut. Constructive criticism and debate is welcome; I encourage anyone to share their own view point.

A bit about myself. I am a student at a liberal arts school in the Southern United States. Right now I am spending the semester in Madrid, Spain, studying at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, through an American study abroad program. Originally I am from the Washington, DC tristate area, or the crazy evil "inside the Beltway" tribe, as we are called seemingly every few years by every politician in the US who desperately wants to move inside the Beltway. Don't read that wrong though - there is plenty of craziness to decry in DC, but it usually isn't that legitimate when coming from politicians.

I don't really have too much else to say regarding where I intend to take this. Hope you enjoy it.