Welcome?

This is Chris. Apparently aka Isaac of Baccano! Which is a totally awesome series, by the way, and everyone should watch it.

So I'm really quite confused. Beth decided to set up a blog for us, apparently with the intent of comparing perspectives, and so this is that blog. She made an introductory post already, but she told me not to read it yet. And so, like the dutiful husband I am, I will do my best to ignore that she wrote anything at all.

I am told that this blog is named "Doggie and Sushi are Flying" and that it is also named "Welcome to Utopia." I'm not really sure how (I haven't actually seen the thing yet), but I gather that "Doggie and Sushi are Flying" is part of URL while "Welcome to Utopia" is the title. Actually, I'm quite sure of the latter, since I see the title right now. But the URL is just
http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=yadayadayada
...so I'm really working on trust and guesswork.
The story behind the phrase "Doggie and Sushi are Flying," for those who don't know (which would be virtually everyone) is that Beth likes to keep stuffed animals/objects in her car's rear window. For the past year, they've been a puppy with a graduation hat and a plush sushi (shrimp, I think) with a smiley face on it. Unfortunately, these are not secured in any way, and whenever we open the back windows the wind works in such a way that they start moving around. "Doggie and Sushi are flying!" has become something of a distress call to close the windows and for the person in the back seat to catch them before they use their new-found superpowers to float through the window to freedom.

"Welcome to Utopia." Well. The story for that is even more ridiculous. My online alias has been "mr_utopia_man" since I was 13... I didn't even know what "utopia" actually meant, but I was frustrated by the lack of available email account names, so I somehow chose that. Actually, it really began while playing the old PC game Worms, and "Mr. Utopia Man" was the name I chose for the team leader of "The Smiley Faces." So that's where the gibberish came from. The name went on to both impress people who thought that I was making allusions to Sir Thomas More at a very young age, and to raise some eyebrows from those who wondered if it was some sort of obscure drug reference. But in the end I still use it today, twelve years later... I'm simply not creative enough to find another fail-proof name name that no one's ever taken.

Anyway, enough on that. In this blog you will probably find posts on various little life episodes, done from two perspectives. And apparently you will also find posts on BPAL... that's Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, a little hobby Beth has just now taken up, and one that I am far too manly to take up officially. In short... BPAL makes perfume. Not gonna lie. But it's awesome perfume. Not "roses on a warm Paris night." Think pirates, dragons, and H.P. Lovecraft. I'm currently trying a Steampunk-themed one called Smokestack which is scented, and I quote: "Creosote, Coal, and Industrial Waste." How manly is that? I don't even know what creosote is, but I imagine it has to do with robot ninjas. Beth thinks it smells like a Catholic funeral, but that's just because she's never stuck her nose in a smokestack.

Anyway, there will probably be much of that. And then life episodes, but there's not much I can say about those right now. They're pretty self-explanatory. And then whatever else we can both be interested in, I guess. Who knows?

But this post has gone on for long enough. Did I mention I'm verbose?