You will have to excuse me… my head is spinning. I have just spent a good solid hour (or was it two?) at MOM & Pop Culture. I think I need a beer. And I don’t even drink.
The page opens to a colorful repeating photo of our Mom and her kids. It’s cheerful, it’s cute. But what unfolds in the pages of this site will boggle your blog world. The page sports my least favorite three column layout. It is well organized but contains a dizzying array of links. Excess linkage is one of my pet peeves. But I know I may be in the minority here.
I have yet to encounter such an overachieving blogger in all my (admittedly short) weblog reviewing career. There is an About page which includes this statement: “I am a freelance writer and independent filmmaker and a mother of two (Olivia and Jared) and married to Mike for almost ten years. I live and work in suburban, New Jersey”, Then there is a list of “100 things about me” that I read in full.
I dived into the deep end of the blog and began reading the most recent posts. Our author writes on a variety of things that pique her interest. And she has many interests let me tell you! She writes often and at length. Her writing style is witty and irreverent and she gets her point across…. whether it is about Shrek II or Move On.org.
In one entry she describes herself, tongue in cheek thusly:
“Official Representative for Blogging Feminist Parents Obsessed with Pop Culture.”
She writes articles for at least two webzines that I found.(There may be more). “Literary Mama”, and “The Imperfect Parent”. She has a link to her filmaking web site “Olive Jar Films”. And if this was not enough, she is editor and publisher of her own webzine, “The Philosophical Mother”.
If you are looking for a feminist and liberal view of the world, this is your destination blog.
One has to admire this much creative energy. Although to be honest, I found the overabundance of linkage and information a bit overpowering. But being the more subtle type myself, I cannot speak for the general public.
Check it out and see what you think.