"I did it, do you think I've gone too far?" -- Dave Matthews

I did it. I am the last person on Earth to start a blog. I'm going to grab myself a cookie... that was nice. Well, maybe that cookie was a little premature. I managed to make the first complete sentence of my first post not only overdramatic, but ambiguous! Did I mean: (a) I am the most recent creator of a blog; or, more boldly, (b) everyone on this planet, including me, now has their very own blog? Issues like these tend to define my professional life and hopefully this blog, which will actually be a law weblog, or blawg -- it will generally relate to the law and the legal profession.

Let's be clear -- my name for purposes of this blawg is Templeton "Face" Peck, Jr., but that is not my real name. What is real, however, is that I am a young lawyer practicing in San Diego, California. Why create a pseudonym to write a blog? What are you, some sort of weirdo? (Objection, compound; vague, ambiguous, overbroad as to "weirdo.") Actually, the beauty of anonymous blogging is the ability to write what you feel/think without accountability. It is especially helpful for lawyers -- in real life we're supposed to always be prepared and logical; but true blogging is less formal and thought-out. Also, now I can expose all those office sex scandals without fear of retribution.

Or maybe I just have a raging ego and like a young Marty McFly, "I just don't think I can take that kind of rejection" if this blawg busts. (That was a "Back to the Future" reference for you kids out there -- it's an oldie... where I come from.) I guarantee blogs have a lower "success" rate than restaurants. And the apparently false rumor is that nine out of ten restaurants close within the first year.