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Other Men's Flowers
Another page of parchment! I could not believe my luck. Two sites in a row with my favored background. The weblog stars must be smiling on me this week!
"Other Men's Flowers" I thought to myself, what in the world does THAT mean? Thankfully I was answered straight away by the author.
"Comments on language, literature, the arts and almost anything else. But mostly quotations."
But my friends, trust me in this, he is too modest. There are quotations to be sure, but couched in his fascinating, quirky, if sometimes enigmatic prose. (An example of the latter to be found in the entry "Ernest" May 22, 2004.) But just because I don't get it, doesn't mean you won't.
I read entries commenting on all manner of subjects ranging from how many people are injured each year opening canned oysters, to the author's chagrin at having chided a friend years ago, for misquoting a bit of poetry and then finding out he was wrong to have done so.
A more quirky and varied and worldly wise blog, I have never encountered. Some entries had me laughing out loud, and others scratching my head. But usually if you follow the link or links supplied in the post, you may finally get the joke. It doesn't hurt to have Babelfish from Alta Vista bookmarked on your browser so you can look up the foreign language quotes. And believe me, it's worth looking some of them up!
In the About section he gives us a very brief resume'. I was impressed.
The page itself is clutter free, only containing recent posts and archives.
And I ALWAYS give points for straightforward simplicity! There are occasional photos to spice up the text, which is always a nice touch.
This site would appeal to the bookish among us. The lovers of multi-layered tongue in cheek writing, or commentary on the absurd in the modern world, that is presented with a liberal dose of quoted wisdom from past masters. The man is a veritable font of literary context for current events. I loved it. Every minute. Even when I disagreed with him, even when I hadn't a clue what he was talking about. I figured the fault was my own not his, and if I kept reading, perhaps I would be enlightened.
I give this site an enthusiastic 5. The very first top rating of my Weblog Reviewing career. And I can say in truth that I am bookmarking his blog, and will return often. You will excuse me now, I am going back to read some more of "Other Men's Flowers".
This site was reviewed on 2004-06-16 by yetzirah.
They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
yetzirah felt that Other Men's Flowers deserved a rating of 5.
I was greeted by a very restrained site. The title was explained by a Montaigne quote.
"I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is my own." The author, Mr Brooks, is going to collect together the work of others and make a collage perhaps?
The design was simple and the web log pleasant to read. There is a right sided panel with recent posts, archives and some links to blog related sites. There is evidence of an anti spam device which is good to see. The top of the page contains the blogger.com adverts and the quote and links to a very straight forward factual about me section and links to the author’s other online activities. There is also a link to a detailed contents page where an overview of the site and a Roget’s driven statement of purpose can be found.
The aforementioned collage didn’t quite work for me. There is very little in the way of imported wisdom from the great and the good. Mr Brooks is not a very good magpie. There are some quoted words from the obscure and even more obscure. Some contrived comments suggest fraud. I was too disinterested to research that.
There is limited use of pictures, links and some of the comments appear to be ‘set ups’ and the vast majority of the posts are off topic and trivially nondescript.
The writing is eloquent and at times interesting and once laugh out loud witty. However it hit these heights too seldom to maintain my interest. I struggled through the already assembled posts, the vast majority of which were written prior to the publication of the web log in April 2004. Why that is, is not explained.
I struggled to finish my reading for this review to be honest. Not my particular choice of flowers. I can give it no more than a two out of five - it is well written after all.
This site was reviewed on 2004-06-16 by Duween.
They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
Duween felt that Other Men's Flowers deserved a rating of 2.
2 reviewers gave Other Men's Flowers an average rating of 3.5000
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