diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index d9d288e..1593e3d 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 PARSEFUNC=md4tj-parse
-CC=emacs --no-site-file --batch -l ./md4tj/md4tj.el --eval
+CC=emacs --no-site-file --batch -l ./md4tj/md4tj-util.el -l ./md4tj/md4tj.el -l ./md4tj/md4tj-blog.el --eval
 
 .PHONY: css
 #.PHONY: vids
@@ -8,7 +8,12 @@ SITE_ROOT=./site_root
 # Makes sure the necessary destination directories get made
 SITE_ROOT_RESULT=$(shell sh make_site_root.sh)
 
-all: $(SITE_ROOT_RESULT) index about links archives takes restaurants css
+BLOGS=$(wildcard ./blog/*.md4tj)
+BLOGSHTMLTMP=$(addprefix $(SITE_ROOT)/,$(BLOGS))
+BLOGSHTML=$(subst .md4tj,.html,$(BLOGSHTMLTMP))
+#$(error $(BLOGSHTML))
+
+all: $(SITE_ROOT_RESULT) index about links archives takes restaurants css blog
 
 index: $(SITE_ROOT)/index.html
 
@@ -22,9 +27,14 @@ archives: $(SITE_ROOT)/archives.html
 
 restaurants: $(SITE_ROOT)/restaurants.html
 
+blog: $(SITE_ROOT)/blog.html $(BLOGSHTML)
+
 $(SITE_ROOT)/%.html: %.md4tj
 	$(CC) "($(PARSEFUNC) \"$^\" \"$@\")"
 
+$(SITE_ROOT)/blog/%.html: %.md4tj
+	$(CC) "($(PARSEFUNC) \"$^\" \"$@\")"
+
 css:
 	cp css/main.css site_root/css
 
diff --git a/blog.md4tj b/blog.md4tj
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bb7d9f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/blog.md4tj
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+@@META charset UTF-8
+@@META name viewport content width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0
+@@TITLE The Jerks - Blog
+@@CSS css/main.css
+# The Jerks
+## Blog
+
+My mindless ramblings.
+
+@@INCLUDE nav.md4tj
+
+@@BLOGBASEDIR ./blog/
+@@BLOGBASEURL https://www.thejerks.club/blog/
+@@BLOGINSERT
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/blog/helloworld.md4tj b/blog/helloworld.md4tj
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4ea122e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/blog/helloworld.md4tj
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+@@META charset UTF-8
+@@META name viewport content width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0
+@@TITLE Hello world!
+@@CSS ../css/main.css
+# The Jerks
+## Blog
+### Hello world!
+
+@@INCLUDE nav.md4tj
+
+@@BLOGPOSTTITLE Hello world!
+@@BLOGPOSTDATE 1679880579
+
+Hello world! This is my first blog post. Not much to see here, this is mainly a test to make sure my blog generates properly. More blog posts forthcoming.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/make_site_root.sh b/make_site_root.sh
index f825a99..2b50d75 100755
--- a/make_site_root.sh
+++ b/make_site_root.sh
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@
 mkdir -p ./site_root
 mkdir -p ./site_root/css
 mkdir -p ./site_root/vids
+mkdir -p ./site_root/blog