I started this blog as a lark, sort of making fun of myself and bloggers and the whole idea of blogging. Now here I am, a real live blogger with a small following of devoted readers who actually take time out of their busy schedules of mowing lawns and removing monkey appendices to read this blog. I was reflecting on this the other day, and it made me wonder what other great accomplishments throughout history were the result of someone just saying, "What the hell, I've got some free time." I did some research on the Interweb and was surprised at what I discovered: Claude Monet: Was forced to paint water lillies without his glasses on because he lost a bet
Michelangelo: Wanted to cover some water stains on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel with pictures of "cool Bible dudes"
Leonardo daVinci: Painted himself and fraternity buddies as Jesus and disciples at the Last Supper as a college prank
James Joyce: Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to mess with his 7th grade English teacher
Vincent Van Gogh: Too drunk to draw convincing clouds so he filled the sky with "swirly stars"
Francis Ford Copolla: Wanted to make a movie in the Phillipines because he felt like he "really needed a vacation" after The Godfather
Pablo Picasso: Was trying to get back at a demanding client who asked for portraits "from three different angles"
Ludwig von Beethoven: Intentionally wrote four crappy symphonies so that by the fifth one people would say he was "really making progress."
George Lucas: Spent 20 years working on The Phantom Menace (Whoops, how did that one get in here?)
Charles Dickens: By the time he got to Oliver Twist, was just trying to see how "Dickensian" he could get
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