Life as an amateur blogger (Ha. Oxymoron) is pretty sweet. It gives me a lot of liberties. it lets me do things that people can look at and say, "Pfft, what an amateur." That's fine! Everyone has to start somewhere. And since this blog isn't that good, I'm going to do someone else a good service. I'd like to recommend to you, another blog that you might find interesting.
http://dooce.com/ is probably the reason that I originally did not want to start my own blogs. I viewed blogs as superfluous, self-centered, and generally focused around things that i just didn't give a flying shit about. Then, through the teachings of one of my writing professors, I discovered that a lot of blogs can do people a great service. There are blogs that give cooking recipes (Not that i can cook), there are blogs that give political news and updates, and even many that give sports updates...Now I'm just off topic.
The blog I would like to recommend to all of my loyal readers (Irony. I have none.) is Dooce. Dooce represents basically the factors of a blog that I don't like. HOWEVER, it's just funny. It's as simple as that. Heather Armstrong basically just talks about the simple, casual, and everyday factors of her life that can sometimes drive her crazy. A lot of it focuses around her husband, which makes for some decent comedy. Girl power!!! (Just kidding) Not only is it funny, but it made me realize that what attracts us to these pointless, conceited, narcissistic blogs is the simple, comedic way that we ourselves can relate to the issues of the blogger. It's as if, by reading their posts, we can have a conversation with them about without ever having to meet them (Thank God). So as you can see, what I hate(d) about most blogs is really what I admire about Dooce. So I really recommend that anyone who is bored enough to read my blog, to give Dooce a read. If it doesn't at least give you a chuckle or two, you can come back here and listen to me bitch about college.
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