The Transplant possesses a header that for some strange reason brought to mind the Soviet Union when first I laid eyes on it. I cannot explain, I only report my first impression.
The three column page is more cluttered than I like to see, and is overloaded with blogrolls, tootsierolls, and other rolls. And I have never understood the “recent posts” and “recent comments” lists on blogs. Because most of the time those very same posts appear on the page already. Redundancy is annoying.
I checked into the About page and found out very little about the author, except a list of things he is not. Which does narrow down the possibilities, but did very little to enlighten me.
I plowed through the archives in search of our author. Who is he? And what does he want to tell us?
I encountered some very curious entries. Sometimes I had no idea what he was writing about. Even after reading the post two times over, I was left scratching my head. There are a LOT of links. Nay, at times there are absurd numbers of links. And often when you click on them, they lead to obscure bits of unsatisfying factoids. With one notable exception. I was amused and bemused by this link and enjoyed my visit there: http://www.utilikilts.com/ Please, check it out.
As to writing style, I think our author has a certain talent. But so often the cryptic nature of the topic under discussion just tripped me up.
Occasionally however there were lucid moments, and those were quite pleasant. Our author seems quite well read, and I think is making literary allusions from time to time, but they are so vague as to be useless to the average reader. Either that, or he is writing an aside to himself, and only he would understand his tongue in cheek monologue.
I read virtually everything on this blog and found myself WANTING to “get” our author, and feeling that if he would just ratchet down the obscure nature of his writing style, I would be able to connect.
It’s a curious place here at the Transplant. Very curious indeed.