American Blogger opens to a very pleasant, atmospheric picture of the prairie. The railroad tracks and stop sign are an amusing way to tell us he thinks he lives in the middle of nowhere. I followed the link to his blog which has been in existence since April of this year. I was impressed by the opening page here too. The color scheme is eye pleasing and the header is a complex, if subtle montage. I started to get excited. This is a really great looking site. Very professional.
But then I started to read the posts. Mercifully, they are short. They consist of terse comments about movies, with very little in the way of commentary. Some entries contain a photo of an actress or model and some salacious comment on same. One link that I regrettably clicked on named “what can brown do for you” took me to a vulgar photo. I did not appreciate the ambiguity of the link. There are other posts on various short subjects such as sports or some odd bit of news that captured the author’s attention that day.
In the sidebar are links to several photo galleries that include family members, “babes”, goofy news photos of improbable events, and scenic views. Some of the pictures in the “Whacky and Funny” folder are pretty fun. But that’s about as much fun that you are going to find on this blog. The author describes his blog in one post thusly: “So you ask what is the purpose of my blog, must there always be a purpose? I know it’s not much, and it certainly won’t make u smarter for reading it, I hope it doesn’t make u stupid either. I just hope that you leave here with a smile.”
I suppose one could argue that blogs don’t have to have a purpose. We could debate that. But I must say, I did not leave with a smile. Perhaps it had something to do with the entry that opened with these words: “So wassup sluts…”
This blog is listed under the “Movie” category. I can’t say that it belongs there except that the author does watch movies, but he certainly doesn’t spend much energy critiquing them.
I won’t be coming back any time soon. The one point I am giving is for the design, which is undeniably quite good. American Blogger