What I Hate About Other Blogs

Yeah. So I could either keep start altering the publish time information on my posts or just confess that I didn't blog this weekend. I'm sorry. I'll try to not miss anymore days. (Did you even notice? You didn't did you? You never notice anything, do you?!)

I read a lot of blogs. These days, I would rather read blogs than books. I love the on-going, real-life sagas. I love being able to communicate with the authors. However, I feel really hungry all the time and also very bitchy there are some things that kind of bug me about blogs.

1. Blogs that have a daily theme thing and actually manage to be consistent with it. I can't even do ONE themed day a week for more than one week before I just forget or find it to be too much trouble or have run out of ideas for it. And the few that I read who do this, they do it really well, it's funny every damn week. Jerks.

2. Blogs that ask their readers for suggestions on how to improve the blog. The readers don't want to design a blog or they'd be bloggers. No, we bloggers can't be catering to the readers, we write what we write how we write and if they don't like it, they can SUCK IT!

3. Really cute blogs that look like a handcrafted scrapbook. Any blogger that goes above and beyond the basic template clearly has no idea what blogging is about. It's not the pretty pictures, it's the content (unless it is actually a picture based blog ...). Most people google reader the blog anyway, so why are you bothering wasting time with fancy pants hard stuff that might involve learning HTML blalblahblah!

4. Bloggers that have their posts published elsewhere on the vast intertubes and they give you a little snippet and a link and you have to click to finish. If I like you, I click ... but I grumble when I do it. Because I bet you're making money for your efforts over there, or at least increasing your publicity. And I'm too lazy to seek out alternate venues. That might mean meeting deadlines and taking editorial criticism. And if you don't give me a snippet to draw me in, I won't click, baby. Can we just assume I won't click any link without some enticing summary or something to go along with it? Yeah.

5. Blogs that are always happy and only complain about the weather. And wow, it is freaking cold today. I had to volunteer at the school this morning and my feet are STILL freezing. Complaining about the weather is stupid.

5. Blogs that I really love that are SO sporadic and sparse that I forget about them then read one and wish there was more! Grrrr. They're not like this hunk of poo ... their writers take time. Find inspiration. And, in turn, Inspire. And the have this clever way of ending on same random topic whence they began. It's called .... I don't know .. but it is very satisfying to read stuff like that right?

My feet are cold. Tune in tomorrow for the story of my microwaved cat which I may have already blogged about but I don't care. It's probably my best story.