Why yes I am still exhausted from all the politics over the last two years, thanks for asking. I’m still not really watching the news, (unless it’s on downstairs and I’m trying to be sociable), and I’m still really limiting the political blogs I read. Of course, if one never changes the channel, one never finds new and interesting shows. In this case, it’s the blog channel I needed to change to find new and interesting blogs to read....blogs that didn’t really focus on politics all that much.
I found a link from one blog that I got to via another blog that I found via another blog...so I’ve lost track and no one is getting the credit....called “BlogExplosion”. (Link on the sidebar.) Technically it’s supposed to increase your traffic by having members come to your site and you hope that what you’ve written keeps their attention longer than the 24 or so seconds allotted to you while they try to gain more credits.
Who knows. What I do know is that I’m finding some heavily sarcastic writers out there who have gained an instant fan, (that would be me, for those who are not focusing), and have been plunked down onto the blogroll with one entry. Not a lot of people can get that reaction out of me. Cause I’m picky. And heavily sarcastic. And I don’t find many who can appease my taste for sarcasm and dark and/or dry humor.
Interlude: My cat just passed gas. I think I’m going to vomit. Please hold.
Totally lost my train of thought. I do think the cat is trying to kill me for handing him off to a caretaker for a year.
Erm...oh yah, new blogs...so, I joined this BlogExplosion thing because yes, I’m a traffic whore, I don’t care who knows it and don’t really care who doesn’t agree with it...the fricken point of me writing is to have traffic. Otherwise I’d write in Word or something. Yes, yes, I am thankful for my readers and I appreciate you all, don’t even start with that tone, but I want new readers. Readers who don’t expect politics out of me and, well, are glad that I don’t blog about politics. So far my traffic has not suffered one bit but that’s because the Google searchers have replaced whatever readers I may have lost after announcing my politics hiatus.
I also joined because it seemed like a good way to find new blogs that nobody who I currently read knows about and I hit a fricken gold mine. Granted there are a lot of “mommy” blogs by women who act as if they are the very first to ever have a child...and while I’m pissing some mommies off, might I add that to me, babies and toddlers look like aliens. I have seen only three infant/toddlers who were “make you talk baby talk, squeeze their cheeks, cover them in gravy and eat them up” adorable. The rest? Aliens. They have those huge eyes that are bugged out in constant wonder of their surroundings and most of the time their mouths are too big for their face. And oftentimes the mommy is the only one who actually believes their child is cute. Don’t even start with me, you know damn good and well you have all seen an ugly baby but said nothing. I’m only saying what most of you are thinking. Because I have no fear...and really don’t care either. Well, ok, I care enough to say this so that people will stop fricken parading their child’s pictures in front of me asking, “Isn’t he the cuteeesssssst?” No. That’s my final answer.
Now that I have that off my chest, I also found some excellent blogs, as I stated way up there, and not only were they sarcastic and show off fantastic humor, their writing is superb. As with anything, when you surround yourself with those who do better, you will do better. And that is my goal. To suck the very life out of these bloggers until I have all the skills and wit....that is to say, to open myself to new kinds of writing so as to improve my own. Yah. That’s what I meant.
There is a point to telling you all of this and that point is, if you have been looking for some new blogs, I highly recommend BlogExplosion. You will find yourself neck deep in new blogs and the odds are, you will find a handful that you really like.
On to my next subject. I’ve been lazy the last few days, the “T” drug in turkey probably didn’t help one iota, so I’ve been watching a lot of t.v. With the shows come commercials and I’m officially disturbed by something I’ve seen. It’s a toy for little girls...here, let me just show you what I’m talking about:
What is with the collagen lips? They’re dolls for fuck’s sake! And do we really need to discuss the fact that little girls are going to be playing with Missy Miss Ho-bag Homewrecker up there? Finally, yes Barbie was all out porportion with her ant feet and waistline that wouldn’t keep in any live being’s innards, but these skanks’ heads and bodies are freakish. They look like spokesmodels for the Eating Disorders Hotline. If your head is that much bigger than your body, eat something you fool!
There are days that I’m thankful I’m not a kid anymore.
<--- Here Endeth The Lesson
