diff --git a/blog b/blog
index 9624dd1..90d9f30 160000
--- a/blog
+++ b/blog
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 9624dd16001391ce33e982caeefd81e02cee1a42
+Subproject commit 90d9f3060491a13a9b41c39fbd5d99f1eabc2444
diff --git a/makefile b/makefile
index dca2fae..0a2d66c 100644
--- a/makefile
+++ b/makefile
@@ -4,8 +4,13 @@ OUT_DIR			= site
 
 ROOT_DIR		= $(SRC_DIR)/root
 
+BLOG_SRC_DIR	= blog/blogs
+BLOG_OUT_DIR	= $(OUT_DIR)/blog
+BLOG_TMP_DIR	= .blogtmp
+
 PAGES 			= $(shell find $(ROOT_DIR) -wholename "$(ROOT_DIR)*.html")
 STYLES			= $(shell find $(ROOT_DIR) -wholename "$(ROOT_DIR)*.css")
+BLOG_PAGES		= $(shell find $(BLOG_SRC_DIR) -wholename "$(BLOG_SRC_DIR)*.md")
 
 IMAGES			= $(shell find $(IMG_DIR) -wholename "$(IMG_DIR)/*.png")
 #IMAGES			= $(IMAGES:$(shell find $(IMG_DIR) -wholename "$(IMG_DIR)/*.jpg"))
@@ -14,20 +19,33 @@ IMAGES			= $(shell find $(IMG_DIR) -wholename "$(IMG_DIR)/*.png")
 HTML_INCLUDES 	= $(shell find $(SRC_DIR)/inc_html -name *.html)
 CSS_INCLUDES	= $(shell find $(SRC_DIR)/inc_css -name *.css)
 
+BLOG_TARGETS	= $(BLOG_PAGES:$(BLOG_SRC_DIR)/%.md=$(BLOG_OUT_DIR)/%.html)
 HTML_TARGETS 	= $(PAGES:$(ROOT_DIR)/%.html=$(OUT_DIR)/%.html)
 CSS_TARGETS 	= $(STYLES:$(ROOT_DIR)/%.css=$(OUT_DIR)/%.css)
 PNG_TARGETS		= $(IMG_DIR)/%.png=$(OUT_DIR)/%.png
 
-run: $(HTML_TARGETS) $(CSS_TARGETS)
+run: $(HTML_TARGETS) $(CSS_TARGETS) blog | $(OUT_DIR)
 	cp $(IMG_DIR)/*.png $(OUT_DIR)/
 
-$(OUT_DIR)/%.html: $(ROOT_DIR)/%.html $(HTML_INCLUDES)
-	mkdir -p $(OUT_DIR)
+blog: $(BLOG_TARGETS) | $(BLOG_TMP_DIR)
+
+$(BLOG_OUT_DIR)/%.html: $(BLOG_SRC_DIR)/%.md | $(BLOG_OUT_DIR)
+	python scripts/mkblog.py $< $@
+
+$(BLOG_OUT_DIR): | $(OUT_DIR)
+	mkdir -p $@
+
+$(BLOG_TMP_DIR):
+	mkdir -p $@
+
+$(OUT_DIR)/%.html: $(ROOT_DIR)/%.html $(HTML_INCLUDES) | $(OUT_DIR)
 	python ppp/ppp.py $< $(HTML_INCLUDES) > $@
 
-$(OUT_DIR)/%.css: $(ROOT_DIR)/%.css $(CSS_INCLUDES)
-	mkdir -p $(OUT_DIR)
+$(OUT_DIR)/%.css: $(ROOT_DIR)/%.css $(CSS_INCLUDES) | $(OUT_DIR)
 	python ppp/ppp.py $< $(CSS_INCLUDES) > $@
 
+$(OUT_DIR):
+	mkdir -p $@
+
 clean: 
 	rm -r $(OUT_DIR)
diff --git a/scripts/mkblog.py b/scripts/mkblog.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2473fa1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/mkblog.py
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import os
+import sys
+import markdown
+
+#   SRC
+#   +-2022/
+#   | +-10/
+#   | +-12/
+#   |   +-25/
+#   +-2023/
+#   | +-1/
+#   |   +-26/
+#   | +-3/
+#   ... 
+
+def print_usage():
+    print("\nusage: python mkblog.py SRC DEST\n")
+    print("\n")
+    print("\t\SRC\tinput markdown file")
+    print("\t\tDEST\tdestination html file")
+
+# check args
+if len(sys.argv) != 3:
+    print_usage()
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+src_file = sys.argv[1]
+dest_file = sys.argv[2]
+
+# check blog root exists
+if not os.path.isfile(src_file):
+    print("{blog_root} doesn't exist")
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+# make dest dir if it doesnt exist
+
+with open(src_file) as md:
+
+    dest_dir = os.path.dirname(dest_file)
+    print(dest_dir)
+    if not os.path.isdir(dest_dir):
+        os.makedirs(dest_dir)
+
+    with open(dest_file, "w") as html:
+
+        print(f"{src_file} -> {dest_file}")
+        html.write(markdown.markdown(md.read()))
+
+#for dir_y in os.listdir(src_dir):
+#    path_y = os.path.join(src_dir, dir_y)
+#
+#    if not os.path.isdir(path_y):
+#        continue
+#
+#    for dir_m in os.listdir(path_y):
+#        path_m = os.path.join(path_y, dir_m)
+#
+#        if not os.path.isdir(path_m):
+#            continue
+#
+#        for dir_d in os.listdir(path_m):
+#            path_d = os.path.join(path_m, dir_d)
+#
+#            if not os.path.isdir(path_d):
+#                continue
+#
+#            print(path_d)
+#            for md in os.listdir(path_d):
+#                path_md = os.path.join(path_d, md)
+#
+#                if not os.path.isfile(path_md):
+#                    continue
+
+
diff --git a/todo.md b/todo.md
index e77e754..9bb0661 100644
--- a/todo.md
+++ b/todo.md
@@ -26,7 +26,14 @@
 
 * [-] features
     * [-] blog
-        * [x] parse markdown blog into html
+    * [ ] blog builder
+        * [ ] i want to generate an entire page based on the existence of one markdown file
+        * [ ] the file should contain no metadata, that should all be generated automatically
+        * [ ] yyyy/mm/dd folder structure - can probably be copied from source
+        * [ ] auto generated <title> tags
+        * [ ] generated file will be in html but will need a second pass from ppp to insert regular templating things
+
+        * [ ] parse markdown blog into html
         * [ ] embed parsed html into templated pages
 
     * [ ] header