Month: January 1970

Upon entering this site, you’re presented with a clean, pinkish layout. There’s an image map at the top, offering a popup, which just leads to some sort of other design with no content. Despite this, I gave it a go-ahead and ventured into the site.



I think that this weblog is certainly an interesting read. Although there are a few things left unexplained (for example, what “Gifted” is), overall, it’s coherent. I like to see people as young as her (11) get into the weblogging thing. It’s nice to see another generation into this. It was also fun climbing back into the denim overalls back to grade-school life.



The design of this site was awe-inspiring based on the age of the creator (11). The design fits nicely with the weblog and, for that matter, with any weblog. Not overly flashy, not too minimalist (I won’t mention any names *cough*nickd.org*cough*). Overall, a nice design.



There’s really no extras, other then the aforementioned popup. Just a weblog…but that’s what we’re reviewing, right?



Overall, I say it’s worth a read. Come one, let the inner kid out!cassie

I can review this weblog in one word: Hilarious!



The blog consists of a series of one-paragraph phony news stories such as “Gallagher crushed by giant watermelon;” “New Zealand sinks into ocean; no one notices/cares;” and “Anthrax attacks traced back to eskimos and sabertooth tigers.” The headlines are funny, but the stories had me laughing out loud.



It’s a great idea for a blog and the author carries it out quite effectively. Some of the material, however, isn’t suited for younger readers, which is why I put it in the adult category.



The layout is simple, but works well with the content.



I’ll most certainly be going back to this weblog often, and I would recommend it to anyone who wants a good, hard laugh.Thugg.org

Trippy blog. I don’t think anyone would really understand this site unless there wasn’t an “about” page to explain and give background about who the writer is. Stand, the author is a paranoid schizophrenia and manic depressive guy living in the East Bay of California.



A lot of what he writes is sort of out of nowhere and doesn’t all quite make sense, but it’s nice that when he knows he’s not quite being clear, he’ll post later what was going on:



“Okay, I had another full-blown episode (if you couldn’t tell by my last post). The angels in my head got me to believe that I had been a part of the rapture, and that I was walking around in heaven, only it just looked like earth… So I was basically walking around naked for like an hour asking people if they had any spare clothes. Wild, huh?”



Stand tends to refer to God and other religious references in his writing and discuss episodes he has or about past experiences.



Layout is okay. He’ll post a photo once in a while and he has little photos along the side of his blog.



I prefer to read sites where the posts tend to make more sense and are more connected, but this site makes for an interesting read. H13.com – Once Madness Was Here

A true treasure of the web! This one is a “hard to top” site.



The site design is very well done, although the cat darned near scared me to death. Luna appeared to be coming off the page at me.



Liz’s entries are numerous and many are quite detailed. The story about her uncle’s death was heartrending, and made me sad that she had to deal with all of the misery. With entries dating back to September of 2000, she is an old hand at weblogging. Her entry of April 9 was right up my alley. I like this lady’s attitude, even though she may say SFW if I do.



External links took me to some other interesting places and I bookmarked some of them for further review. Although I didn’t read all of Liz’s entries, I found those I did read worth the time spent and will often make a return visit to find out what’s up in Toronto with Luna and Liz.

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“How does a guy who really likes women end up as a priest?” Yeah, you will definitely learn this and a whole lot more when your check out “Diary of a Mad Monk.”



This blog is geared toward religious context which is quite interesting. Dave, who’s the writer delivers his thoughts pretty well and I found it interesting to read about one man’s experience with being a priest and later realized that it wasn’t for him and went decided to teach religion.



He comes off pretty conservative through his writing and even wrote, “I am an arrogant bastard, as well; and I think that my arrogance is fully evident in my writing.” He talks about issues that come along with become a priest that much of the general public would have a difficult time committing to. One particular post caught my attention about chastity and celibacy:



“The problem with celibacy does not lay in the physical temptations of sex but in the emotions that accompany the desire to have physical intimacy. Therefore, celibacy is not the hardest of the vows to accept and maintain; chastity is.”



If you’re just curious what Dave has to say or would like read a blog with a religious twist then this definitely would be one to check out.Diary of a Mad Monk