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I couldn’t help but think that I had heard of this site before. When I first got to it, I knew I had seen it before but I couldn’t remember why. Then it occurred to me that I had reviewed this site, and sure enough I did back in January of this year.

The header is still the same for the most part as before, only this time it is spiced up for Halloween. In fact he now has multiple headers based on which month it is. He has headers for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentines Day, and is working on one for St. Patrick’s Day.

The blog is mostly about things going on in his life. This includes, but is not limited to, movies, traffic incidents, previous jobs and more. I really got a kick out of his post about slow drivers as that seems to be an issue I am dealing with recently.

Some things have changed ever so slightly since I last visited. It turns out this man of the cloth now carries a gun. I am still trying to figure out why he got a gun other than he could. I searched and searched, but did not find an answer to this question.

The design is still the same as I remember it though I could be wrong. It is just a simple two-column layout which looks like a modified word press template. One thing that did bother me was that in clicking the “previous entries” link, I was only given 4 or 5 entries. This resulted in a lot of work for me with regards to clicking since the author posts quiet frequently. Even when I selected the individual months, I was still forced to go 4 entries at a time. This was annoying.

The writing has taken on a more humorous tone to it which is nice. Since the first review I did, I have seen some subtle improvements which have made me change my thoughts on this blog. I am now going to give it a shot in my daily reads to see if I actually enjoy it on a daily basis, or if I just enjoyed reading the past 10 months of archives.
The Church of Dysfunction

When I saw “Sawx Blog”, I was thinking sawx=socks, oh, how cute. No, actually, sawx=Sox; the Red Sox, to be precise. From my position as a teenage girl uninterested in sports, I had to contemplate whether or not to even do this review. Would it be fair for me, very much not a sports person, to do a review on a blog entirely devoted to sports? I suppose my final decision is evident.

As I perused the blog, I noticed that it was entirely red, white, and blue; Red Sox colors, as I learned from the pictures. The design is a little cluttered, with a ton of links on the sides, and the Google ads match the site well enough so that they’re an exact match and blend in with the rest of the links… not too appealing to me.

The blog itself is very informative. I regret to mention that I actually learned a few things reading about the baseball team (haha) and may perhaps become interested in the Red Sox. Well… maybe in a few years. As a non-sports person, the entries weren’t that interesting to me, but I could really see how someone who likes baseball could be drawn in.

There aren’t many extras to this blog; there’s a picture every now and then, and as mentioned above there are quite a few links, but other than that it’s fairly simple. While this could be good or bad, I think it does well for this blog. Nothing but the sports… for the avid sports fan.

Overall, I don’t think I like this blog very much on a personal level, because it’s not something that interests me in the least. However, the entries are well written and regular. That’s always a good thing. I have to knock off a bit for the cluttered sidebars, and for my lack of interest. For someone who’s interested in the Red Sox and who doesn’t mind scrolling through a bunch of links (or who plans to read this with an RSS aggregator, perhaps), this blog would be a good bet. Overall, I’d have to give it a 3.5 out of 5.NULL

When I first arrived at this blog, my thoughts were that it was just your average Blogger blog, but… with a deviously ingenious layout? And links that actually have a point? OK, so this isn’t just your average blog, and you can tell right away.

Let’s take a moment to think about the layout. As I said, it’s somewhat devious, but ingenious. Why? Well, it’s not your basic, everyday, run-of-the-mill Blogger template, and I love that. It’s got a dark edge to it, but it’s bright enough to not make me want to dye my hair black. Goth templates aren’t cool, no matter what anyone’s told you.

Then we get to the writing… while the lack of capitalization struck me as odd at first (I’m a stickler for spelling and grammar), it didn’t detract that much from the posts. The writing is quite intelligent, and much above the average blogger out there. There are some cuss words, which I don’t entirely agree with but also don’t entirely object to. It’s definitely not a blog for the timid.

The links and other whatnots we have are actually relevant… big plus there. There are links to the author’s favorite games, webcomics, other blogs, and various 80×15 banners that you could click to give referral points. Everything just fits so nicely together.

In the end, I loved this blog and have just now added it to the link bar on my own blog. It’s definitely worth checking out, so long as you aren’t easily offended by swear words. That’s the only thing that I didn’t find absolutely great about this site, in fact, and that’s not nearly enough to keep me from going in the future.NULL

My first impression of this site was… Great another Bush loving site… I have to say I generally shrug my noses at sites like that, but I can assure you I am not biased in reviewing the site. I understand there are different interests in the world and that is what makes America such a great nation. I did have a quick turn off from this site, and that was the pop-ups. I despise them, and recommend the authors of this blog to remove them from their system. The google approach is best if advertisement is needed, simple text on the side that does not aggravate the visitors. Other than that, I feel that the layout was clean and crisp and was interested to start reading what the other side of the democratic system of America had to offer.

The weblog is composed of many articles ranging in subjects. It is mainly a political blog speaking out the Conservative mindset. It has 2 authors who work together to produce the blog. It is hosted by blogspot with a basic blogger theme. I was impressed by their writings, they spoke how they felt on different issues throughout the democratic society and encouraged readers to comment on their feelings.

The design is a general red, white and blue theme with the background being blue, red being the title bar, and white being where there is text. They have a tag-board at the bottom right for simple chatting while on the site. The tag-board is what I suspect is causing the pop-ups. I would suggest actually purchasing the tag-board or writing your own code for it rather than using the free one because of the advertisements attached. I have used the paid version and it is very nice.

In conclusion this site is very well laid out and is for a particular party, in general. Persons with other viewpoints can read the blog, but I think they would probably want to spout out nasty comments, which is never appropriate. There were a couple things referenced on the blog that I was curious to want to know more about from their standpoint, maybe in the future. I would have to say overall I feel this blog deserves a 4.
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I was delighted to see “The Ex-Girlfriend Project” up for review because it is a blog I started reading a few weeks ago. It is relatively young but it is one of the densest most content-filled blogs I’ve ever read. It reads like a novel or a very circumspect diary. Unfortunately, the blog-format is not the best venue for the content. This story begs to be told in forward, not reverse, chronology.

The blog is the writer’s attempt to understand his relationship problems by telling the stories of all of his important past relationships. He lays out the purpose of the blog in excellent “about” and “about me” pages. Read them first and you know what the blog is about and who (more or less) is doing the writing. You are never at sea.

He begins at the beginning, in high school, and chronicles his entire history for us in amazing detail. While he tries to stick to talking about his ex-girlfriends, the stories about his group of friends and their lost, searching drug-filled lives are compelling. When you read this blog you enter another world, another time, and you are completely there, though it can be a bit exhausting. If you miss a few posts you find yourself hours in the hole. The author works “as a freelancer on the fringes of the film business,” which apparently affords him plenty of time for blogging.

In terms of design, I have some quibbles. I don’t care for color type on a black background. I find it harder to read than any other template style. The author uses a different color type for each of his ex-girlfriends. It’s a good idea, but in practice, I don’t like how it looks. I don’t think the gimmick is necessary to keep the women distinct. Reading the story is sufficient.

If you like long-form, narrative blogging, you should read “The Ex-Girlfriend Project.” It’s a good read, good writing and I highly recommend it.NULL