Small beginnings

Person 1: "Well, here we are then."

Person 2: "Indeed."

P1: "Glad you could make it."

P2: "No sweat. So this is your blog then?"

P1: "Yup, sure is. What do you think?"

P2: "Kinda roomy. I like the ambience. It's like 'Spinal Tap' you know, "none more black". Actually it reminds me of 'Cafe UP' that used to be on Courtney Place near Kitty's. Now that was black decor..."

P1: "Yeah I remember. Great cappucinos. I used to walk into the wall at the end of the stairwell when I was going in because it was so dark and black. I wonder if they knew that people did that...."

P2: "They probably saw the scuff marks in the daylight"

P1: "True."

P2: "So this has been a long time coming hasn't it?"

P1: "Yeah. Been thinking about setting this up for a while."

P2: "So what prompted the less thinking, more doing?"

P1: "I dunno really. Got sick of thinking about it. A friends blog showed me how easy it was and here we are."

P2: "Got big plans for it then?"

P1: "Not really. Just an outlet for stuff I want to mention. I enjoy writing stuff and relating stories, thoughts and ideas. I'm not big into the heavy socio/political stuff so I don't expect to do much of that. Nothing too personal either. I'm crap at verbal discourse, and can express myself much better with the written word. People say nice things about my email ravings and thus I have been encouraged."

P2: "So it will be more of a random stream of conciousness thing then......"

P1: "Sometimes. Most of it will just be stuff that occurs to me. Like how annoying it is to go to your favourite food place and find that they have changed the menu and the one thing you craved has been deleted. Like how my neighbours cats sit in the driveway like sentries. Or how one day I would like to order a vegan butter chicken at Tulsi just to see what would happen. Plus stuff that isn't really relevant to the emails I send to the current and returned overseas crew."
P2: "So no specific ambitions then."

P1: "Not really. I plan to do the "100 things about myself thing" as it seems to be some kind of blogger tradition, as well as to see if I actually can write 100 things about myself. Being linked to and name checked in other blogs would be nice, as would having a regular readership, but neither of those things are the reason I'm doing this. They'd be good for the ego though".

P2: "Speaking of ego, isn't kind of, well, self indulgent to exposit reasons for being in a conversation with umm, yourself?"

P1: "Nice segue. You could be a One News presenter with a segue like that. I don't think so. Those that know me will get it. It's slightly more creative than your usual "This is me here I am etc" anyway. Doubtless it has been done already in a thousand other blogs. Although I haven't mentioned anything about myself yet really, so I'm not sure it is serving it's purpose as an introduction.
How about this:
"Blog meet readers."
"Readers meet Blog"

P2: "You nicked that from "The Complete and Utter Rat" Brunswick collection introduction. So much for original thought."

P1: "I could have thought of that......I do have other stuff that is original."

P2: "So what's with the name then? "Off-black" sounds like, well I don't know what it sounds like."

P1: "There was an ad for teeth whitener or something in a kindergarten where the teacher asks the kids "what colour are my teeth" or some other silly question, and the kids answer "stucco, mother of pearl, off-white etc". Which got me wondering, what colour is off-white? Can you have 'off' other colours? Like say black. What would off-black look like? One thing led to another and the "Off-black" handle was created. It really has no significance, I just like the concept.

P2: "Cool. I like the way you think"

P1: "Of course you do. Why else do you think I created you for the purpose of an expository dialogue?"

P2: "Yeah, true."

P1: "So here it is. The blog of a twenty something/thirty something New Zealand European male, sourced from deep in the wilds of the Lower Hutt Valley, Wellington, Lower North Island, New Zealand, Southern Hemisphere, World, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way, Universe."

P2: "Sounds a bit more grandiose when you put it like that. Think anyone has read down this far?"

P1: "Probably not after that last bit."

P2: "Funny that you mentioned 'World' and 'Earth' as two separate entities."

P1: "Well the end of the World won't be the end of the Earth will it?"

P2: "Yeah but if the Earth ends so will the World pretty much"

P1: "Define 'World'. The International Space Station would become the world if the Earth suddenly vanishes. Not for very long admittedly, but it would be a defacto world"

P2: "True. We've got a bit off topic here I think."

P1: "Yup but it is the sort of material that might be found here as time goes by. You say 'True' a lot."

P2: "True."

P1: "So anyway readers, here is my blog. Enjoy.

P2: "Umm yeah, what he said."