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The Use and Abuse of Personal Websites

Just because I am a WordPress user, doesn’t mean that I can’t read Blogger blogs, right? The thing that I like the best about Blogger is that they have that “Next Blog” button on the top of each blog that sends you to a completely random blog. Or maybe I should say “supposedly” random, because how am I supposed to know if I am not being sent various places for a reason, because everything happens for a reason, right?

I need affirmation tonight… right?

Anyhow, if they are truly random, then I think after flipping through many many of them I am somewhat qualified to make overall pronouncements about the blogosphere. Here are a few. There are a lot of Spanish and Portuguese blogs. Most blogs in English are written by parents making cutesy comments about their new babies. You’ll note that I try to keep my kid out of this place. Friends and family know where the secret link for pictures is, the rest of you don’t want to be bothered. Nobody likes hearing about cute kids– or supposedly cute kids– they’ll never meet. The whole process of hearing about them eclipses them, by that I mean that the annoying way new parents go on about their little tykes could fry the nerves of a saint. When you add a blog to that, especially the ones in which the parents ghost-write for their tots (“Today mommy and daddy took me to the zoo.”), they have to realize that they are pissing off fans of the next blog button and thereby may suffer for it.

If I were a real mean-spirited SOB, I would post rude comments on these blogs about the kids and stuff, but I am too nice a guy to indulge in anything that cruel. The only thing I can do is to suggest to those of you, who are truly mean spirited… I did see a few months back, somebody (probably and ex-) posted a link to a website of a couple about to get married. It was a site with directions to the event and so forth and so on, but it also had a comments section, and this person on Craigslist, was asking people to pile on with the evil comments. No, I didn’t comment. What do you take me for? But I did read some of the comments. It was brutal. But anyways, back to kids on the internet.

You can only imagine my delight to finally stumble upon the blog of a person who will definitely NOT be posting cute kid pics anytime soon. The author of “Overactive Sexdrive” describes himself in his profile as:

I am in my 20’s, I am a male, Caucasian, middle class, very high sex drive. I live with my girlfriend and have been with her for over a year and a half, I love her. We don’t have sex very often anymore, this is becoming a big issue that I have with our relationship. I hope that by blogging about it, I will be able to sort through things, and maybe get some feedback from any readers.

There’s also a link to another blog in which a couple describe everything they do with one another. It’s sort of like, if you’re not satisfied with reading about somebody who gets no sex, read about two people, who not only can’t get enough of it, but who don’t describe themselves in anything but sexual terms. Granted, the advent of the search engine increases areas of specialization (I can’t complain, I just found a bunch of Tymon Dogg albums for download. Check out “Low Dow Dirty Weakness.” I love this guy and couldn’t find his stuff for the longest time.), and thereby encourages to some extent a fracturing of the personality into different sectors. For all I know, the guy who writes in his blog exclusively about not getting any action from his girlfriend has another blog highly regarded by heart surgeons for it’s unique take on how to do quadruple by-passes. Or maybe quadruple by-passes aren’t that big a deal anymore. I don’t know, maybe he’s important to somebody other than his girlfriend. You get the point.

TWIB Notes from Around the League

Shane Victorino hit the game winning homer for the Phils today. For those of you who don’t know, Victorino is from Hawaii, and today the promotional freebie at the game was a Shane Victorino Bobble Head doll complete with grass skirt. What a day for Victorino, who by the way, is having a much better season than Bobby Abreu.

Special Note for Red Sox fans. Promotional Freebies are things given away to fans to get them to come to the ball park. You don’t get them because the Red Sox sell out every game. Next time you need a plastic Red Sox hat with a giant Bickford’s Restaurant logo on the back and you can’t find one, think about why.

The Red Sox are having Jon Rish (who let’s face it, should be in the booth) give updates on the Orioles, because the Orioles are in second place. This is like bizarro world. A.) I know they’re in second place, but they’re the Orioles. B.) They’re like 30 games out or something like that. Who cares? Let Rish take the place of whoever is taking O’Brien’s place tonight. Rish is the best. He is light years better as a post game wrap up guy than Sarandis used to be. Don’t think I don’t like Sarandis. I love Sarandis. I love him doing BC hoops games, which he is top notch at. But when Rish gets all cantankerous with nitwith callers after the game, that’s great fun. Of course, it’s great fun at his expense, because I think Rish is actually upset, but I like it.