The star of Rick Mercer's Monday Report (that would be His Rickness) has joined the blogging ranks.

For a taste, here was his first post, made Monday at 9:11 a.m.:

You always remember your first....

Like many big personal firsts the anticipation is huge but it will probably turn out to be anticlimactic, clumsily executed and mercifully short.

Yup... I was right.