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The New Empire Lounge
This is a re-review of The New Empire Lounge
When I'm reading a blog, the first thing I usually look at is the header. The header can tell you a lot about a blog and its owner. It tells you whether or not the owner took the time to create a captivating header, or if they just stuck with the default template's blog title in large text. When I stopped in at The New Empire Lounge, I could immediately tell that I was in for someting oringinal just by looking at the unique header image. I wasn't let down by the cynical and hilarious musings of Rob, the owner of the blog.
Rob is a very funny guy. From rants about Bennifer to the MTV Movie Awards, Rob always has something interesting to say. From the looks of things, Rob just relaunched his blog this month. Since he's been back, he's been updating daily. Let's hope he can keep that up.
The design of the blog is great. Most blogs that use Movable Type look nice, and this blog isn't an exception. Because he uses MT, Rob's blog has a great commenting system, easy to navigate archives, permalinks, and an RSS feed. The design isn't to flashy or image intensive so the site loads very fast.
To sum things up, The New Empire Lounge is a great reader and definitely worthy of a daily visit. The design is great, it's easy to navigate, and the entries are well written and fun to read. Definitely worth a look!
This site was reviewed on 2003-09-24 by brendoman.
They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
brendoman felt that The New Empire Lounge deserved a rating of 4.
For most of us growing up in the late 80’s and early 90’s we had the Simpsons. I remember when they were still on the Tracy Ulman show and the drawings were rough and choppy. And today they are what they are, and there’s a huge fan base... How can you not love a site that has Ned Flanders when you first come to view it!?! Not to mention the quote of “Where there is nothing more exhilarating than pointing out the short coming’s of others.” Though I suppose you’d have to have a good sense of humor to actually find that funny or amusing.
When I first started reading the blog to do this review, there was a post about censorship in textbooks in school, and the ridiculousness of the severity to which the publishers are now going to maintain the “politically correctness” of those books. This post was. highly. intriguing. He’s a writer, and shares the new chapters with his readers, which makes things completely all the more interesting to read his every day posts. I don’t know if it’s me, or just the writer in me, but I find that people who are writer’s or aspiring writer’s actually have some silly and strange stuff to say on their own blogs. And this author is no exception to the rule.
He has the occasional rant about things we’ve all been ranting about before, but Rob seems to say the same things we’ve all said with a different kind of pizzazz and spunk. When I first started reading I was sure that this guy was like more people my age, considered generation x-ers, but he’s actually a little bit older than myself. I saw a lot of the same things you’ll see on the “younger” generation blogs. Not a bad thing, since this author actually has a laid-back mentality, which shows in his writings. But that didn’t take away from his insanely real and humorous writing style. He has a sense of humor only other sarcastic people might understand. People might actually find him offensive to a degree. I, on the other hand, find him ingeniously entertaining.
As with any other blogspot blog, there are a few problems with loading and archives actually showing up, load time and things of that nature. Its sites like these that make me want to offer subdomains for nothing, and just host for the sake of putting really good blogs out there to share with the world. However, once you do get the archives to work you’ll find some serious gold there (May 8 #3 & #15).
The design works well. The only problem that I ran across is that if the font appears to be too small, you can just make the text size of the browser bigger in order to read it better, you’re basically stuck reading the small print.
The majority of this blog is filled with witticisms and hilarity overflowing. If you want something real and yet still amusing, this is the place to go. I found myself highly obsessed with menial things like his driving for 10 hours and all he had to say about work. You’ll find fun for the whole family here, only if you have a good sense of humor.
This site was reviewed on 2003-05-29 by firefly.
They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
firefly felt that The New Empire Lounge deserved a rating of 4.
2 reviewers gave The New Empire Lounge an average rating of 4.0000
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