There’s just this huge pressure going on here about how to kick The Enthusiast off. If the Internet has invented a way to shower its readers with actual balloons and confetti, I have yet to hear about it. A welcome video of me opening my arms wide to greet you, inexplicably with my pants off, seems like a wildly inappropriate thing to post. So how to begin? Other than with a whiny paragraph about how to begin?
With this link to a photo of a cute kitten, that’s how.
Yes, you’ve just been “Crab Rolled.” (Courtesy of Ted Leo.) Thanks for stopping by.
John Sellers 
Smacks of the Talk magazine launch by Tina Brown a few years back. Let’s try to be original going forward.
This is all part of your evil plan to make me actually use my brain, isn’t it? Never!
And you dissed the Pharmacists already. Sheesh. Nice going.
You could, however, try to redeem yourself by coming up with a True/Slant theme song.
And so begins my mission to get Ted Leo to write the T/S song for us!