Tip Of The Hat

The name of this blog is Ego-Induced, which of course describes 99% of all blogs, this one being no exception. The term "ego-induced" was already at the tip of my tongue because of a poem that my grandfather, Allen Stephenson, wrote and put at the end of a self-published book of poetry.

--30--
Journalistic bombast?
Perhaps.
Ego-induced?
An odds-on bet.
Still, better not question
Too closely, I suspect,
Lest there be at the last
Nothing left--
And we each have need
Of a small something.

I should note that my old blog, A Small Something, also borrowed its name from the same poem. Maybe the next one will be Journalistic Bombast.