Month: January 1970

Here I am, its a Saturday morning and it’s too early to get drunk yet so I hop on the net to catch up with The Web Log Review. The first site in the list today is “The Red Sneaker Diaries”, an adult/personal sex blog detailing the sexual encounters, conquests, and kinky additions to our authors life of raunch and debauch. Naturally, the tone is one of pure exhibition and you get a sense of the author’s pleasure in this. Straight away the authors legs and rear decorate my screen as a display of her recently acquired, pink knee-high boots.

Well, this sure beats the regular bag of oh-so-tediuous personal blogs filled with lengthy discourse about stuff that, I really honestly don’t care about and I don’t have any reason to care about the Red Sneaker Diaries either. However, a good set of sexy pins on the front page is a good enough hook for any red blooded male, I keep reading.

Categories include – Girl Sex, Kink, Pics, Sex, Spanking and others and appeal immediately to my baser instincts. I refrain for a minute and instead read the most recent entries including some quiet sex-in-a-house-full-of-sleeping-guests I’m sure more than a few of us can relate to. Others include a spanking so hard it breaks a wooden spoon, and other descriptive narratives for sexual encounters in various settings.

The design of the site is easy on the eye, and unlike most sex blogs is devoid of the distracting and down right annoying flashy adult ads. I am a fan of simple design and this site’s design is appealing. The site logo is very iconic with a fetish style nude wearing only red sneakers, although the pixels show and I reckon it could be cleaned up with Illustrator or some kind of vector lines to clean up the curves, its a great header though. There is a spelling error in the about section on the left and the occasional typo in some of the posts but these seem like honest mistakes and are not too frequent otherwise as the author has a good grip on the written word.

The Red Sneaker Diaries is a unashamedly sexy blog with a writing style akin to porn or romance fiction although we are led to believe this is a journal of our female authors sexual life, and we have no reason to believe it isn’t. The blogroll relates to others mentioned in her posts suggesting a nice community of sex bloggers, (One of whom has a site I’ve already reviewed!). I’m also happy to see a photography section as well as some How-to’s I’ll never need, but it helps diversify the site.

Overall a good read with some delicious post titles including “Fisting Anna”, “Women and Wax; Ice and Knives” “Anatomy of My Orgasm”, and “As My Pussy Would Say”. The Red Sneaker Diaries are well worth a visit particularly for those into spanking and domination, however it still makes interesting reading for the rest of us with enough diversity of content. The site has semi-regular updates but is very consistent and well read within the community. NULL

I knew exactly what I was going to get into with husband – DJ – computer geek considering I had run a similarly named blog about 4 years ago. I knew going in that this was just going to be a personal blog about the guy who was all of those things. Sure enough when I got to the site and read the about section, I was presented with all that info and more.

Before I get into the blog I want to take a minute to talk about how a simple modification of a template can really help a site. I know I have seen this template somewhere before, but the fact that he has an original header graphic and then the colors of the site match the header graphic really tie it all in. So kudos to him for doing this.

The blog. Where to start with this blog? I have to say I enjoyed reading this blog. I was hooked the moment I read the about section actually. The author (who’s name also happens to be Brent) presents a lot of info to us in a no frills, tell it like it is with out the bs sort of way. He even says “My postings are usually short and simple but put together they become a picture of my life as a husband – DJ – computer geek.” and I could not agree more.

The posts talk about all things with his life and offer a lot of different things to look at. I enjoyed reading about his job as a stuffed animal vendor but then to read about the bowling alley was also just as enjoyable, and lets not forget that awesome looking dog of his that only drinks out of the bath tub.

As I said, I knew I was hooked from the moment that I read the about section, but two posts in particular really made it clear to me that this guy was the genuine thing when it comes to bloggers – 1st his post about winning prizes by running some banner ads at the BOTTOM of his blog. 2nd his post about filing for bankruptcy. I mean if you are going to put it all out there, you might as well put it ALL out there.

After reviewing countless blogs it is rare to find a site that I truly enjoy. With blogs there is no right and wrong. There’s only fun and boring. This one actually fits into both right and fun. I would go check this out today, then on Tuesday when you are back reading blogs from work, check it out again. I know I will.
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When I started to think of all the possibilities of what Chasing Vincenzo meant, I started to get dizzy. Was it children, was it a book, was it just some random word that the author threw together? Then the other question of why is he chasing Vincenzo? What did Vincenzo do to him? Does Vincenzo owe him money? Is like the modern day mob only on the internet?

The first thing I noticed when I got to the site was that there was a link that asked the question “Who is Vincenzo and why are we chasing him?” Finally I get an answer to all of my questions. Vincenzo as it turns out is a chef in a restaurant in Chicago. Er, actually he was. Currently the author is looking for Vincenzo again as he is now on his 4th restaurant in 3 years. Of course Vincenzo makes the best Italian food the author has ever had, and well he wants to always know where the chef is.

Unfortunately the chef keeps switching restaurants and for some reason no on at the old restaurants knows where he moves on to. This is a great premise for a blog, a book, or even a movie. I think this could fall under the comedy section for either a book or a movie. The posts are about different restaurants and different things going on in the author’s life though most are about food. This blog is new and he has not found Vincenzo yet, but hopefully he will.

The blog is well written. The author has taken quiet a bit of time researching all his different possibilities when it comes to presenting a blog. He has flags from all around the world posted at the top of each blog which will translate the page for you into that language. He also has seven different ad banners in the navigation column which I found distracting. I understand that people want to make an extra buck or two while blogging, but this is starting to get out of control. It took me two glances to find the archives since it has only been open for 2 months. Between all the other stuff in the navigation column it sort of got lost.

I really liked this site and I think it has a great premise to it. My biggest complaint however, is that the author uses the “more inside” type thing with his posts. I personally HATE having to click to read every single post. These posts are not like 10 pages long and deserve to have a little “catch paragraph” then the rest inside. Like a fine wine, let the posts breath. I am also a little curious as to what the author will be posting about in let say a year from now regardless of if he finds Vincenzo or not. I hope he does not distract too much from the idea he has because that will ruin this blogs quality.

There is fate, but it only takes you so far, because once you’re there its up to you to make it happen. That is why I really like this site because he is making sure that he is doing everything possible to find Vincenzo.
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I’m not sure what I was expecting when I saw a site named The Fifth Dentist. I am fairly certain, however, that I didn’t expect political satire.

The site uses a basic Blogger template with white text on a black background. Simple, but at least not distracting. On the sidebar, the reader can the archives and a few links, but no extras beyond that.

There are only a handful of posts on the site, which has been around since September, and reading the entire archives takes just a few minutes. The weblog is a political satire site, focusing almost exclusively on the Bush administration. It is not a site for political discussion but rather for pointing out the idiocies of ones opponent. The posts are humorous, if somewhat more vitriolic than would typically be my preference.

While the site focuses almost entirely on anti-Bush material, the likes of which can be found almost anywhere on the internet, it is pretty funny. The author has a writing style that is creative and shows talent, but which in the end cannot make up for the lack of originality in the content of the posts.NULL

The first thing I usually do when I’m reviewing a blog is go to the profile area and see who’s writing what. It really helps to get some background information on the author because then I can get a feel of how and why he or she is writing. Well, when I checked to see who was “Vincenzo” and why the author and his wife are chasing him, I was met with a charming anecdote. Apparently, there’s this really good Italian chef named Vincenzo who have graced their lives, even meeting the author’s wife a couple of times, serving something special on the side. But after each encounter, they are left with a closed (or open) restaurant, with no Vincenzo. The author has never met the man, but his wife has more than once and he thinks that through this blog, he might be able to once again find Vincenzo.

I was excited to read the entries. I mean, after the background information I read, I was certainly intrigued on what’s been going on during the “chase” of Vincenzo. I found, though, that most of the entries aren’t personal works detailing the chase. Instead, they were composed of informative articles about anything and everything entertainment. There are the books, the restaurants, the travels. But they aren’t impersonal copy-pasted articles. Oh, no. The author gives a full story on the what’s, how’s and why’s. He also adds how his experience went. If you visit, I’m sure that there are a lot of interesting things that will catch your attention (those Nation States sure did hook me).

The layout, overall, is nice. I thought it had a comfy kind of elegance. It’s nice. The other thing I found awesome was the fact that I can translate each entry into a number of different languages. I thought that was a great perk. The simple (or not-so-simple) things sure are amusing and certainly entertaining at times.

I give this site full points. I mean, it was just wonderful. It’s fairly new but what there is right now was enough to certainly entertain me. I suggest everyone give it a visit because there will be something that will catch your eye and hook you. The entries themselves are well-written and witty that I personally enjoyed. Kudos on the great blog. NULL