Other blogs part 2: Terminal Blogocity!

Today I bring you another edition of Other Blogs, the post where I bring to you, constant reader, the best(?) of other blogs out there. I can't believe what people there are in this world.

My journey into the other blogs of the world started predicably enough. In the first 5 blogs I went to, 1 was written in Spanish, 2 were maintained by gay men, 1 was done by a cool guy though it hadn't been updated in over a year - ask me for his link if you're really curious, and 1 made a comment about D&D. As Carlos said, the odds for a D&D comment are about 1 in 5 so that stands to reason. I ran across a 44 year old Norwegian man who has a blog entirely devoted to the Arsenal Gunners, and by devoted I mean fricken de-vote-ed. Then... the humour started, and oh, what humour it is. It started innocently enough... someone has posted the entire lyrics to Extreme's Hole Hearted. Not for the silliness that is Extreme, but because it's such a beautiful song, to them that is. Not only that, but someone has left a comment thanking them for posting said lyrics as the reading of them brightened their day so much. The blogger somehow tied the song into fostering a relationship to god or something... I was too shocked to see the entire typed out lyrics to an Extreme song given such reverence. Maybe I should have posted a comment asking the blogger how Extreme was growing closer to god when they wrote Get the Funk Out. After that I came upon my first depressed blogger.. someone who equates her job to that of Milton's on Office Space. Now Milton is awesome, as a movie character, saying you can relate to him is bad. Very bad. I came on a blogger who had the last name Kershenblatt - thought that was funny. Then I discovered a whole new breed of blogger. The arrogant grad student blogger. A number of people in the midst of Masters and Ph.D. work have blogs bestowing their... by their account, endless wisdom on the slakjawed masses of the world. They are known by their ridiculously long posts.. I mean really fricken loooong... like Maynard holding that note at the end of Judith type looooong. The one guy started every post with "Dear You" and appropriately enough ended it with "Sincerly Me". Fucking dink. I didn't bother reading their words because a quick skim was enough to tell me my prick-o-meter would have been off the charts with the levels of haughtiness found therein. Next came quite possibly the funniest and weirdest section of bloggers I never imagined there were. The Mormon bloggers. A bunch of Mormon folks got blogs and cultishly enough... they're all linked to each other. One dude was determined to show the world that he was not an animal and answered unasked questions pretaining to the mormon faith. But the biggest gem from this was the Feminist Mormon Housewives blog. Just read that title and try not to smile a little. Nevermind the Mormon factor, how the hell do you be a feminist housewife? Isn't that contradictory? This reminds me of the "taking back the pink " movement my friend Maria who was/is head of the women's center on campus told me about. Taking it back from who?

Then... it happened. I had been smoothly bumping along, hittin' the next blog button and it happened. I had mentioned before about the blogs in which some twit with the slightest bit of computer knowledge has rigged up to have a box pop up when you open their blog with a cutesy little message. I found one. Here is the pearls of wisdom that were bestowed on me.

[ [ ' if i had a staR f0r eveRy time euu bRightened mY daee.... ] (end of one box, hit ok)
[ i'D beh0ldinG dda galaxY in my haNdx.... ' ] ]

Those square brackets are there, as with the pointless apostrophe. Don'tcha just want to kill them? Hit the link if you feel you need to see this for yourself. After coming on the stupid cutesy message blog I decided that was enough next blogging for me. So there's another edition of the blogs of the world.