Hello. Since this is the first official post on my blog, I thought it would be a good idea to give you a brief introduction as to who I am. I’m not too sure why I feel the need to do this considering anyone that comes to this site probably already knows me. I suppose I am just humoring myself.

My name is Kyle. I am 30 years old, live in San Francisco and have a bald spot. I work for a financial company doing web stuff. The ironic thing about that is I know absolutely nothing about the world of finance and I really don’t know too much stuff about the web; at least not enough to get paid for it. None the less they hired me and pay me mediocre at best salary to sit at a desk all day and get pushed around by various investor relations professionals from various companies for various reasons. I complain a lot but it’s not that horrible. I have worked at much worse places, but there probably is a reason why the average employee is giving their two weeks notice before receiving their first annual 2 % raise.

As I said, I live in San Francisco. In my humble opinion it is the greatest city the world. That would maybe mean something if I got out little more, but it is what is. The neighborhood I live in is called the Marina. Despite the fact that it probably has the highest density of cheese balls, yuppies and cougars in the city, it’s a very nice place to live. I do have to say I did not want to move to this neighborhood; but my girlfriend had rent control on her place and with rent prices being what they are we didn’t really have a choice. (A quick side note. I always feel like I have to give a disclaimer as to why I live in the Marina like I should be ashamed of it. It’s funny how superficial the non-superficial really can be sometimes. I’m calling myself out on this too.) It’s really not that bad though, it’s a nice life. You see a lot of people with iPhones, tiny chicks with huge sun glasses and cute little couples with matching North Face jackets. All the North Face gear people have in this city cracks me up. Like there are so many mountains to climb in the Financial District. All these guys walking around with slacks, shirt, tie and a North Face jacket. Cup of Star Bucks in one hand and a mountain climbing pick in the other. I digress. I’ll have plenty more to write about in the future on this topic. I have made a lot of interesting observations while living in the Marina that one day I will share with you all. I also plan on looking into this North Face thing. I may be reading too much into this, but it almost seems like some sort of cult. One day before the weather gets nice I am going to count the amount of their jackets, sweaters and what nots I see on people from when I walk out my door in the morning to when I get home at night. It’s going to be a huge number. This is the type of hard hitting commentary and insight that you will be getting from me so pay attention.

I guess I should let you know why this site is called kduce.com. It’s really nothing complicated. My initials are KK. In case you’re curious my middle initial is D, but that’s not important. When I was younger a friend of mine gave me the nickname K-Deuce. You know, 2 Ks, deuce means 2 – so there you have it K-Deuce. Well, I was young when I was given the name and a horrendous speller (I still am). I thought the correct spelling of deuce was duce, so that’s how I spelled it through the years. K-Duce. It’s the same as someone named John spelling it Jon or someone name Amy spelling it Aimee. It’s my name and I’ll spell it how want. The nickname made its way through middle school, high school and college. People still use it. So, that’s what I thought I would name my site. Not very interesting, but I thought you should know.

Now that you know a little bit about me (and if you’re bored enough to come back to this site again, you’ll learn plenty more) I should fill you in on what this blog is actually going to be about and why I started it. The first reason is, I am an extremely out of practice writer who misses writing to death and is just looking for a place to do it. My once flourishing creative soul has been sucked out of my body with such haste by corporate America; I am desperately trying to retain it with one jaded perspective at a time. (By the way, do you like how called myself a writer? Like I ever got paid to write anything. I was a creative writing major in college that used to write quite a bit and for some reason I feel that justifies me calling myself a writer.) Secondly I suppose I am arrogant enough to think that people out there that don’t know me either will or should give a shit about my opinion. I plan on writing reviews on movies, music and television; all of which topics I consider myself and expert. I will also be weighing in on politics and current events. Obviously there will be a lot to talk about with this being an election year. To get serious for just a second here, I am strongly supporting Barack Obama. I haven’t wanted someone to win an election more in my life. If you have any interest in supporting him as well, you can go to http://www.barackobama.com/index.php to donate to his campaign. Moving on, I also plan on writing the occasional sports story. Lastly you will probably be getting a heavy dose of my random thoughts, observations and opinions on various topics. Hopefully this will all be informative and entertaining enough to keep a few people coming back.

I really do appreciate you coming by. If you want to leave a comment, you have to register for the site. Just click register on the right navigation. Once I approve the comments it will post. The reason I have to approve them is, I can get spammed in the comments section and that will just look annoying. Thanks again for coming by.

K-Duce