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You know how I’m participating in this Nablopomo thing, right? Where we agree to post at least once a day for the month of November? Well, so far, so good, I’ve been able to find something to write about every day. Well, I realize it’s only been like 5 days, but still, I’m at 100% and that’s worth noting, yes?
Anyway.
I decided the other night that in addition to writing everyday, I would try to visit as many of the other participant’s blogs as I could. There are a LOT of them, you can see a full list of the participants here, I’m guessing there are over 300 1100. And because everyone likes comments, I would comment on any blog that I found that remotely entertained me.
I have visited approximately 60 sites so far and I have only commented on four. Four out of SIXTY had something remotely interesting posted.
I’ve never claimed to have the most compelling things on earth to say. I do try to write for an audience, though, and try to keep in mind that no one cares what I had for lunch today.
That being said, I have something to say to the other 54 sites I’ve seen so far…
- We get it, your kids are cute. However, stop telling us about their adventures in poop, spit-up, and staring aimlessly at the cat. I’m here to be entertained, so unless your kid is pooping on the cat who is wearing a onesie and licking at the spit-up stain on the floor, I don’t want to read about it.
- No. More. Messy-eating-smeared-face-ain’t-I-adorable pictures of your 6 month old. This is only a good picture if the subject is your 30 year old husband. IF he’s hot.
- Seriously, no one cares what you had for lunch today. Unless it was at a filming of Fear Factor.
- Your code names suck. I read more than one blog that needed a CIA cipher team to explain what the fuck was going on. “X and I went to EC’s party. J was there with that skank P who used to date G and the other J. I told her she was a B for showing up. She flipped her hair and told J that I was worse than H.” I say F.U. When I use code names, they are at least easy to follow, and you need only go back one or two posts to get the context. The exception being UMB, and you’ll notice that if you put your cursor over the letters, you get a pop up description of who he is. I really only use it now because it’s easier to type than Michael.
- “I’m too busy to post today” is a lame fucking post. You suck. You weren’t too busy to log in to your blog account and write that enlightening sentence. You could have at least said, “I am too busy masturbating to old episodes of Dirty Jobs to write anything interesting today” so we can laugh and point at you.
- If your life is boring, and you know it, make something up. Prattling on about how you have no life, no friends, no one reads your blog, and you just don’t have anything to say makes me want to shake you and say, then STOP TALKING.
I’m sure that as I continue in my quest to hit as many of these blogs as possible I will find more things to rant about… and don’t think for a moment that I’m not thinking back through my posts and wondering if I’ve been guilty of any of these posts. *shrug* If so, I guess that’s my prerogative to be a hypocrite. Sue me.
The author over at pinkelephant.org has written a pretty cool script that will send you to a random NaBloPoMo participant, so if you wanna try surfing some of these blogs yourself, give it a click.
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i don’t blog so i probably have no room to talk, but all i can say is AMEN! daily i surf for new and interesting blogs, yet i’m constantly finding folks with nothing to say.
rrrrrrrrrrrrr.
on a good and happy note, how about both you and umb showed up in my dream saturday morning. a fabulous alcohol induced dream. where neither of you had cfs and in fact had lots of energy. nuff said.
hehe
I don’t really have a comment for this post. But if you want to see a picture of my cute little 4 mos. old puppy common over to my blog.
this cracked me up ~ seriously ’cause i too am surfing the naplobomo in search of well something outside of myself ~ there is waaaaay tooo many and i will not get through even 1/4 of them i suspect but it is um enlightening …
thanks for commenting on my site ~ after reading this i feel quite special and after reading this, I feel safe to check out some of your archives
Ok, I’m cracking up! I’m one of the fortunate to have been commented on by you. Appreciate it, thanks. I should probably warn you not to check back today tho’. I posted pics of my adorable 5 month old and his first attempt at solid food.
On the up side… I don’t use code names.
I’m laughing at the irony here. Because I sort of blogged about what I had for lunch. But only technically! I swear, it was funny and interesting! I’ll never do it again.
(Sigh)
I’m actually enjoying making my way through the randomizer. Yeah, some of them consist of boring navel gazing, but I’ve found some doozies too.
Hmm… Sometimes I enjoy reading about people’s children! Yknow, when they do something thats actually amusing. And currently I am making it a point to blog about my lunch. It’s my way of rebelling until I get my new book! Until then-suggestions on blog topics are always welcomed!
hellohahanarf - There’s nothing worse than someone with absolutely nothing to say who won’t shut up. As far as your dream…. um… I’m not sure how to respond to that. except to say, I hope that a good time was had by all.
othur-me - Your puppy is cute. And you have many funny stories having nothing whatsoever to do with him. But if you turn your blog into the adventures of Rebel and Soldier, I’ll drop you from my blogroll so fast your computer will implode.
daisies - you’re welcome for the comments. Welcome to the neighborhood. Hope to see you around again!
crap-o-rama - like I said today, your post was 50% interesting, 50% kid mashing food in his mouth. You therefore survive 50% of my wrath today.
contrary - I agree with you, it was funny. Great fortune in your cookie. True. Pass along some of the doozies would ya? I’m dying over here…
sarah - I think that’s kind of my point… the messy face pic isn’t really amusing. Tell me stories about your kids cutting their hair on a slant… and post pictures! How about funny tales of when your kids first cursed? As far as good blog topics, here’s a list to get you started: worst first date ever, best first date, favorite teacher, best things about high school, first time you saw your father cry, most memorable concert you attended…. any of these are better than what you had for lunch.
Hey - another thing I noticed.. do way too many bloggers knit? Did I miss the memo that told me I ought to learn to knit in order to become a true blogger? It’s not that I have anything particularly against knitter, per se. I just am surprised at the sheer number of pictures I have seen of knitting on blogs. Maybe I should start taking picture of my hobbies. Oh wait, I don’t have any hobbies. Maybe I should give knitting a try.
Thanks for the comment. I usually post every day so my original plan for this November deal was to leave comments. That hasn’t happened, but I have high hopes for today!
I’m guilty of just about every thing on your list. *sigh* It’s funny, I tried using code names but I couldn’t keep up with them myself. I figured if I couldn’t do it and I knew them in real life, how were readers supposed to keep up? Even though I use real names, it still gets confusing [7 kids!] so I made a who’s who page as a reference.
Thanks again and I’m off to start my day with comments.
Thanks for the comment on my blog.
I’ve been perusing the randomizer as well and am so happy it exists to help me wade through them all. Good luck on the rest of the month! I’m sitting here trying to think of what I’m going to write about today, but am glad you liked my site.