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Spriteboy World
This is a re-review of Spriteboy World
As I was thinking about Spriteboy World, I thought the name sounded familiar. Where was it I had heard this before? Why was I drawn to this blog like a magnet to a fridge? What was it that made me want to read it?
They say that first impressions are the best impressions, or at least the most memorable. Spriteboy World has a very nice, clean, hip layout that loads very fast. At first I was a little turned off with all the green, but then it grew on me as I read the archives. More on the design later.
One thing I hate is a splash page. It serves no purpose. Spriteboy World gets around this issue by actually posting real information to the first page. So its not so much a splash page as it is more of a directory. Where would you like to go today on this little website of mine? Of course I went directly to the biography section to find out a little more about our Spriteboy.
Birthed from a mother who is Mexican chihuahua and a father who is an Irish leprechaun, I immediately knew this was going to be one fun ride of a blog. And this also explained all the green on the site. But there is more to Spriteboy (aka Chris) then just his heritage. He lives in New York and seems to be in the loop with some semi to very famous people.
The blog itself is about his daily life. Most of it is told as such as it is a summation of what is going on in a funny way. Just the good parts are what is typically featured here but of course with a funny spin. He took a break in March of this year, only to return in May. The posts since his return were the most enjoyable for me. More depth into who he is, more opinions on what is going on, some good realizations about life in general, and it was refreshing to read about someone else coming to grips with similar things. I would go into detail about the major event that is going on his life, but I don't want to tell you everything.
I have one complaint about this blog. It is surprising that I only have one problem considering most blogs have numerous faults. The problem lies with the archives. You can only access them one post at a time. This is annoying and creates a lot of work for someone to go through a site's history. Imagine if you had to turn the page of a book every paragraph. Yeah that was how I felt with this. Put the archives in a monthly format so we can just read the site. It is enjoyable to read, it is not enjoyable to do work just to read.
By now it is very obvious that I enjoyed this site. I would have given it the perfect score of a 5 but the archive situation really annoyed me and threw me for a loop. Spriteboy has an amazing site. Oh yeah, remember my question earlier about why this blog sounded familiar? Yeah it was because he was reviewed a year ago. And since that review he has grown a lot and I really enjoyed reading this site.
This site was reviewed on 2004-07-30 by Brent.
They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
Brent felt that Spriteboy World deserved a rating of 4.75.
Okay, I love this blog. It’s filled with some of the funniest and (excuse my language) bitchiest posts I have ever read. There are actually 3 blogs on the page. One could be found under “Journal”, the other under “Rants”, and the last under “Raves” (the titles are sort of self-explanatory).
Written by a 24-year-old New Yorker, Chris, who goes by the alias of Spriteboy, Spriteboy World is a highly absorbing read. Most of the blog entries are mainly about his daily life, but the author’s sarcastically witty narrations make his supposedly sad life sound really exciting and glamourous (e.g. his encounters with celebrities and wannabes at his front desk operator job with uber chic New York hotel, Hudson).
The writing is vigorous and highly engaging, and is the type of blog that I wish I were writing. The layout of the entire site is pretty amateurish but it doesn’t really matter because the blog is just so good. There are the standard links to his bio, the guestbook; and some other goodies like “music” and “All Up In My Business”, where Chris answers some questions posed to him by his readers. Only thing that kinda bugged me was the archive. Most blogs have monthly or weekly archives, while his was a post-by-post type. Meaning, there’s an archive page with individual links to all his posts. It is not too bad, only that every time I am done reading one post, I have to click back to the main archive page because Chris didn’t link up the posts. It wouldn’t be that big of a problem if he didn’t have quite so many entries, but he did, so maybe some improvements could be made in that area.
Seriously, if you are looking for a personal ‘rant’ blog that is entertaining and doesn’t drone on and on about one’s life, you should go for this one. The writing is so lively, it almost sparkles. The blogs are updated regularly, so it makes a good choice if you want something you can check on weekly. This one is definitely joining my list of favourites.
This site was reviewed on 2003-05-25 by velvet.
They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
velvet felt that Spriteboy World deserved a rating of 4.
Spriteboy is a 20-something actor living in a New York apartment with "Gorgeous Roommate" Jen. He says "yay" and talks about "boobs." Often. Remind you of anyone? Unfortunately, this NY actor [and star of "Mission: Idiot"] doesn't have the censorship of a large US TV company, and I did find a few comments that I, personally, found offensive. Overall, though, he seems a pretty amiable bloke.
He mostly writes about daily life, such as an upcoming audition or the actresses staying in the hotel he works in [porn and regular]. Unlike most personal blogs, I never got any sense of his personality through the writing, which seemed contradictory in places. In one post we are told that the author disagrees with the war his country is fighting, and the next we are told how proud he is to be American followed by a picture of the American flag and a few quite ignorant comments about the Iraqi people.
I have to admit that from the pictures at the top of the screen Spriteboy does look quite elfin, but then they have all been heavily altered with a run-of-the-mill image-editing tool. I like to see sites where people make the effort despite not having a degree in graphic design and £900 of image editing software [I, myself, am included in this 'work on a budget category'], but it does mean you don't get the crisp , professional look. Still, this is a weblog and by its nature is not professional.
The layout of the journal doesn't run like other journals. Instead you are faced with the archive page, with descending dates and titles, and you read through a page at a time. This makes it hard work and would only take a minor adjustment to improve the readability a whole lot.
Spriteboy World is your average weblog. If you have something in common with the author, or are really desperate to get with an aspiring actor in the hope that someday he'll make it and not dump you for a size 2 blonde, then this could well be the weblog for you.
This site was reviewed on 2003-05-25 by Bluiser.
They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
Bluiser felt that Spriteboy World deserved a rating of 3.
3 reviewers gave Spriteboy World an average rating of 3.9167
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