Blog on Blogs

Well, it finally happened. I dropped the ball, and failed the April challenge to post every day for a month. No special reason, really. Everyday life just got in the way and I forgot. I work on Saturdays, and as soon as I arrived home, I dove into cooking dinner (veggie stuffed peppers, in case you were wondering...), then The B had rented a movie ("Casino Royale', if you're dying to know...), and poof! Just like that it was time to go to bed.

Lunch time at work, rather than posting, I surfed a few other blogs instead. Came across one called 'Pictures of Everything I Eat'. Some guy in Australia who takes pictures of all the food he ate in a day (WTH?). He's 27 and likes cola and corn chips, apparently. This put me in mind of one of my early posts about amateur food pictures. Seems to me a lot of people like taking pictures of the food they're enjoying. Or just plain writing about the food they eat. Every bloody day (just search 'what I ate today' and see...). Other trends I noticed in the blogging world: the 'family blog, the 'team sport blog', the 'fashion blog', the 'scrapbooking blog', the 'travel blog', the 'photography blog'.

All of the posters have a need to share, most are highly visual, very few are opinion pieces, even fewer have good, interesting writing. There are also what I call 'confession blogs' (of which mine is occasionally one...), but the majority are self-obsessed, highly derivative, and shlocky (sentimental and low quality). I'm just calling it as I see it. I generally skip over anything with poetry because 99% of it is just plain awful, IMO. Now, admittedly, mostly I'm just randomly surfing using the 'Next Blog' button at the top of the page, so my sample group is not very specialised, and I guess I could be accused of being lazy myself. But, as far as English-language blogs go, I don't land on that many sites that truly capture my fancy.

The upside of this is a) I don't waste huge amounts of time on trash, and b) when I do find something I like, it's all the more special. Some blogs I have recently bookmarked:

The Carrot Revolution
Anonymous Works
Angry John Sellers
Todd Babiak
Nervous Birds

Enjoy!