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Good evening to you all.

My name is Tomato Surprise, and one of my favorite parts of life is living it. Let me explain: there are so many different things to ponder, so many facets of ideas swirling around me. Really random things. I express these thoughts all over life and the Internet. Recently, I had corrective spinal surgery and took advantage of the hospital's CarePages, a blog you could use to update all of your friends and family on your recovery. As I progressed more, the blog became less and less about my recovery and more and more about personal musings like politics, music and more. It's now time to say goodbye to the Carepage and hello to a new era of Tomato-y goodness. That being said, I want to go over a few things.

Thing 1: I encourage discussion about topics I blog about. I hope for this blog to be a sort of loop of conscience. I'll post about a hot-button issue, or something on my mind. You guys can then comment on it, discuss it, and ponder it. Your discussion may lead to a whole new train of thought leaving the station of Tomato, which you may, in turn, discuss, which leads to a new train of thought and so on. There's a button below this post that says "leave a comment". This excercise is useless if you don't click that button. I don't want to just hear myself talk.I've even made it so that you don't even have to make an account to post a comment. Just click and write. In this country, one of the things I love is free speech. That's what this blog is about. And I want to see it here. That being said, I'm filtering all comments for vulgar language, slurs, and disrespect toward others. This will not be tolerated. So, your comment will not appear until I approve it.

Thing 2: You may not agree with all the points I make, and that's fine. I may not agree with all the points you make, and that's fine, too. But, let's be respectful.

Thing 3: I'll do a post about this later, but in the sidebar, there's links to other blogs I like. They may be funny or intelligent or both, but for whatever reason, they're there and you should check 'em out, OK?

Now that I'm done establishing rules, let's go over some of the stuff I'll be talking about in the coming weeks, mainly Friday through Sunday.

* Michael Vick is signed to the Eagles: Good descision or bad descision?
* The death of the niche cable network.
*A Tale of Pasta Sauce and Pop Stars: Who Diluted News Media?
* Photos from one of the best charity events out there. And I WAS THERE!
* What's wrong with this picture? Women in Comics
* 1984: How To Revive Language Arts
* Pixar's movie-tie in merchandise is not performing well. Should we be worried?

Also, most of you will have gotten a Blogspot alert when I posted this. If not, let me know.

Thanks for reading! I'll see you later.
Tomato