You And Your Blog

Visit Grr...! Now featuring a review of the Tomb Raider soundtrack!

Seriously, Dan's is way cool, go read it. Even if he does disturbingly link to photos of Christina Aguilera.

I feel deeply ashamed of this, but I like the new Jessica Simpson song. I may need therapy.

Mena Suvari has a big forehead.

Why isn't there a Jessica Simpson doll yet? All of the second string pop starlets got one, even Mandy Moore and Vitamin C. And the S Club 7 ones were disturbing, even more so than the Spice Girls dolls. If I were Jessica, I'd feel dissed.

The most disturbing thing I've ever seen was still at KB Toys when me and my mom were looking thru the Spice Girls dolls. There was no Geri, she was apparently very popular. Then this Traino-esque man walks by, clutching a Geri doll. So my mom, being the chatty person she is, stops him, "Oh, you have a Geri! Can I see her? I want to know what it looks like!"

He refused to let her hold the box. He reluctantly let her see the doll, standing about 5 feet away from us, glaring evilly at my mom, and giving me the eye since I was in my most Geri-licious phase then (bright red hair with weird blonde bits - unintentional, Feria is the worst hair dye in the world, somewhat heavy, big enormous platform shoes, ludicrious clothing). Then he hugged the box to his chest again and ran to the cash register.

We SO did not want to know what he was doing with that doll later.

The closet I'll get to blogging is:

Not cause the video game bothers me (it doesn't), but Angelina Jolie and that pseudo-brit accent, yeesh. I pity Noah Taylor for having to be in that movie.

Ooh, this should go to ILM, shouldn't it? How ironic!

Today is "screw ILM" day.

Gosh, but now even just talking about what a screaming idiot will only make him appear here, marking his territory like a little pissing dog. Is it me, or does he mention the fact that I have A BAND in every single post he makes? He's far more impressed by it than I am. Sheesh! I bet he's the one sending me those crushline lovenotes...

Och! Unbelievable!

But hey... Chris Murphy *hates* me!!! Do you still have respect for me? I mean, he WROTE IT DOWN FOR ME and everything! "I HATE KATE" in big bubble letters. Even though I wasn't talking to my BEST MATE, the totally non-scenester Alan McGee at the time, do you still have respect for me? Mwah hah hah. ;-)

Oh, back to the subject at hand- I don't have a blog. I have a whole *mailing list* dedicated to my ramblings. You can join it through the Lollies site www.thelollies.co.uk OH! - Did I mention I was in a BAND?!?!? And I have a COOL DJ BOYFRIEND?!?!? Oh, don't you all wish you were me? Heh.

POPSHOTS. It's a blog. It's a webzine. It's a literary site. And it's all MINE! Bwah ha ha.

Feedback (positive / negative / apathetic) is encouraged.

And so.

Dunedin - NZ - Duane & Maryann's diaries

Witty dinner table banter

"Ricko said 'I think the whole thing with smoking is, it's connected to this new amputee craze . . .'
I interrupted and said 'Wait! I just read that a Missy Elliot gig was marred by 'irrelevant wandering in the audience and bizarre talent contests' and now you're telling me there's an amputee craze?'
He said 'Things are a lot different now to how they were in your day.'"

A classic example of this in occurred in the summer, when a group of allegedly "anti-war" bloggers decided that the most urgent priority of the day was not campaigning for an immediate withdrawal of British troops from Iraq - or trying to prevent potentially catastrophic US/UK strikes on Iran, but linking up with notorious pro-war hawks to try to gain asylum for Iraqi interpreters who had worked for the illegal occupying forces.

Anyone who deviated from the official party line - as laid down by a self-appointed uber elite of British bloggers - faced a cyberspace lynch mob, more in keeping with Nazi Germany than a country which is supposed to pride itself on its support for free speech.

those nazi cyber lynch mobs ain't nothin' to fuck with.

but seriously: what the fuck at the whole thing there, with the interpreters. i was agin the war, but seriously, this guy actually wants more people dead.

What's your blog's readability level?

http://www.criticsrant.com/bb/reading_level.aspx

Also works for regular web pages. This page on ILX:

http://www.criticsrant.com/bb/readinglevel/img/elementary_school.jpg

I'm junior high. Figures!

Oooh, impressive:

http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0770v1

gets

http://www.criticsrant.com/bb/readinglevel/img/postgrad.jpg

Mine got "Genius". This thing is obviously broek.

Uh oh, Schefterblogz gets High School

Yeah, this thing is seriously broken. Bobthekitten's blog: College.

(Sorry Ned)

http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0770v1

I am not sure what the big deal about this paper is. If it's that simple then a non-field theorist like me should be able to follow it. I cannot.

yeah, people made the mistake of believing what a normal newspaper wrote about it.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071117-upon-further-review-surfers-new-theory-of-everything-severely-deficient.html

Personally, I dislike New Scientist's arXiv trawling ways; by putting Lisi into the role of the anti-establishment hero (he's a surfer not a scientist...) and publicizing his work before peer review, they (along other media reporting, including our own) may well have compromised Lisi's chance at getting a fair shot a peer review.

OTM.

i changed the name of my blog.

http://skotrok.blogspot.com/

oh originally it was metal fury but there was a website with that name so i changed it to metal furor but i never really liked that name.

http://ohkrapp.blogspot.com/

school:
http://ohkrapp.blogspot.com/2008/01/oh-shit-its-crunch-time.html

poems: http://ohkrapp.blogspot.com/2008/01/robert-lowell-ear-of-corn-1977_05.html

french:
http://ohkrapp.blogspot.com/2007/12/how-to-speak-french.html

music:
http://ohkrapp.blogspot.com/2008/01/i-saw-world-end.html

media: http://ohkrapp.blogspot.com/2008/01/moments-january-08-part-1.html

film:
http://ohkrapp.blogspot.com/2008/01/film-edition-2007-part-i-introduction.html

"in the sink"
beforeitistoolate.tumblr.com

for some reason i always get a shiver of dread whenever i see this thread revived

http://joshreads.com/images/08/12/i081202lockhorns.jpg

we divorced this year. it felt grebt.

Our blogs are marrying!

Oooh, can I be a witness. :-)

I have got a new blog. Don't be put off by the German title, it's mostly in English. It's called Ohrensause which means something like "ear feast" or "ear treat". For the time being I have been posting about one song per day. See you there.

http://photosofrapperswithcuteanimals.tumblr.com/

Hi!

http://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/

I started up something I've been thinking about for a while. It's sort of the literary equivalent of an MP3 blog -- snippets of different kinds of writing that I like, with occasional commentary on them from me. Ici:

http://grayfoxlit.tumblr.com/

I wish tipsy still blogged on grayfoxlit! Where else can one read snippets of Lauren Berlant and Richard Ford? (Seriously, let me know.)

I've apparently started this:

http://strangersihaveloathed.tumblr.com/

Did not suspect you harboured such deep reserves of scorn, TH!

Oh just try me.

The getting in early post rang a bell!

Good read so far TH.

I've gotten started on a new blog project, but I'm in dire need of a decent name. Its frustrating me because I have the first several entries all set to go, but the name thing is turning into a big mental block for me.

the virtues of microwave popcorn

Sadly, no, I won't be blogging about that.

thanks Jon!

When in doubt, go with "Does What It Says On the Tin." Not literally that. Maybe I shouldn't have used quotes.

I get what you are saying. I was debating that approach, but I found it a little too cumbersome.

Mine: http://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/

^^^ Always a good read folks.

Mine is poorly written. I can't write worth shit and I rarely update

^^^ Always a good read folks.

― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0),

aw thanks!

but anyways
http://floatinginthefroth.blogspot.com/

aw thanks!

Np, I really like the thoughfulness you bring to what you write and I like the range of music, film, and politics.

Is this the Splendour of Me thread? Am I in the right place?

http://phildellio.tripod.com

mine is mainly a sullivan-style "here is an excerpt from an interesting article/pretty picture" thing with irregular NEW MEDIA THOUGHTZ

neversleep2.wordpress.com

http://neversleep2.wordpress.com

((i hear that you and your blog have left your wordpress and got a tumblr.........i hear that you and your blog have left your tumblr for a wordpress))

^ lol

i was billmon's first commenter

i was there when kevin drum moved to mother jones

belle de jour is at my house, installing more memory in my netbook

^^^thread started ile day 2 :)

http://dubdobdee.co.uk/ <--- me, blogging again, no longer on pitas (pitas!): plus with comments and everything so you can drive by and unleash scorn and whatnot

http://www.essaypedia.com/images/life-changing-patterns-by-navirah-zafar-jilani-58752.jpg

Eh, why not?

Here's mine: It's Like When A Cowboy Becomes A Butterfly - a title I love or hate depending on what time of the day it is.

Mainly me jotting down stuff about art comics, but over the past month I've posted 6000-7000 words about Jonathan Richman's "Roadrunner".

So there ya go.

https://ext-5181324.livejournal.com/71407.html

no writing just pictures of stuff mostly