The Weblog Review

I can review this weblog in one word: Hilarious!



The blog consists of a series of one-paragraph phony news stories such as “Gallagher crushed by giant watermelon;” “New Zealand sinks into ocean; no one notices/cares;” and “Anthrax attacks traced back to eskimos and sabertooth tigers.” The headlines are funny, but the stories had me laughing out loud.



It’s a great idea for a blog and the author carries it out quite effectively. Some of the material, however, isn’t suited for younger readers, which is why I put it in the adult category.



The layout is simple, but works well with the content.



I’ll most certainly be going back to this weblog often, and I would recommend it to anyone who wants a good, hard laugh.Thugg.org

Trippy blog. I don’t think anyone would really understand this site unless there wasn’t an “about” page to explain and give background about who the writer is. Stand, the author is a paranoid schizophrenia and manic depressive guy living in the East Bay of California.



A lot of what he writes is sort of out of nowhere and doesn’t all quite make sense, but it’s nice that when he knows he’s not quite being clear, he’ll post later what was going on:



“Okay, I had another full-blown episode (if you couldn’t tell by my last post). The angels in my head got me to believe that I had been a part of the rapture, and that I was walking around in heaven, only it just looked like earth… So I was basically walking around naked for like an hour asking people if they had any spare clothes. Wild, huh?”



Stand tends to refer to God and other religious references in his writing and discuss episodes he has or about past experiences.



Layout is okay. He’ll post a photo once in a while and he has little photos along the side of his blog.



I prefer to read sites where the posts tend to make more sense and are more connected, but this site makes for an interesting read. H13.com – Once Madness Was Here

A true treasure of the web! This one is a “hard to top” site.



The site design is very well done, although the cat darned near scared me to death. Luna appeared to be coming off the page at me.



Liz’s entries are numerous and many are quite detailed. The story about her uncle’s death was heartrending, and made me sad that she had to deal with all of the misery. With entries dating back to September of 2000, she is an old hand at weblogging. Her entry of April 9 was right up my alley. I like this lady’s attitude, even though she may say SFW if I do.



External links took me to some other interesting places and I bookmarked some of them for further review. Although I didn’t read all of Liz’s entries, I found those I did read worth the time spent and will often make a return visit to find out what’s up in Toronto with Luna and Liz.

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“How does a guy who really likes women end up as a priest?” Yeah, you will definitely learn this and a whole lot more when your check out “Diary of a Mad Monk.”



This blog is geared toward religious context which is quite interesting. Dave, who’s the writer delivers his thoughts pretty well and I found it interesting to read about one man’s experience with being a priest and later realized that it wasn’t for him and went decided to teach religion.



He comes off pretty conservative through his writing and even wrote, “I am an arrogant bastard, as well; and I think that my arrogance is fully evident in my writing.” He talks about issues that come along with become a priest that much of the general public would have a difficult time committing to. One particular post caught my attention about chastity and celibacy:



“The problem with celibacy does not lay in the physical temptations of sex but in the emotions that accompany the desire to have physical intimacy. Therefore, celibacy is not the hardest of the vows to accept and maintain; chastity is.”



If you’re just curious what Dave has to say or would like read a blog with a religious twist then this definitely would be one to check out.Diary of a Mad Monk

Bubbly. This weblog is just so darn bubbly that it’s hard to dislike. This is a teen blog, through and through; yet, there is something quite appealing about the author’s style of writing and her choice of content, even if the reader has no clue as to what’s really going on in TiggyzWorld.



Tiggy, a teen from Canada, posts daily entries about her life in a format which is best defined as slapdash. There is no order to the author’s posts, she makes no attempt to provide a narrative; but, she provides quick and entertaining glimpses into the world of today’s teens. Tales of academic woe are interspersed with commentary about friends and the Internet. The author tends to post comments directly to her friends, but the somewhat constant “cast” of friends can be identified and followed. The subject matter discussed, be it school or the Internet, is fairly universal and even adult readers will recall having had sentiments similar to the author’s. The overall tone of this weblog is, indeed, bubbly. The author tends to come across as friendly and funny and may remind the adult reader of a neighborhood teen or a younger sister.



The author’s grammar is fair and she tends to use quite a bit of slang, but posts are readable and not overburdened with vernacular. Punctuation and spelling are not particularly good but, again, they do not seem to detract from the content within the posts.



TiggyzWorld sports a fuchsia color scheme and the layout features a large, extremely slow-loading title graphic followed by the weblog’s content area. External links and a large amount of clique icons are kept to a side menu area and all links are in working order. The site lacks archives but does feature a bio page and a nice tribute page to the author’s friends. The most dislikable features of TiggyzWorld are the color scheme, which can make for difficulty reading the entries, and the slow-loading title graphic. Archives would also be a welcome addition. Note that the site views equally well in MSIE 5.5 and NS 6.1.



In the world of teen blogs, TiggyzWorld makes for a fun, fast, spirited read. While it is not intellectually deep nor especially astute, it is entertaining and fresh. This weblog is highly recommended to female teens, 12 – 17.



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