The first thing that strikes you about this site, as you scroll down the first page, is a real sense of insouciance. At first I thought I was in for another dreary neo-conservative brain bashing experience that was similar to holding on to an electric fence wearing wet clothes.
Do not be fooled, this is no hard-nosed cynic; this dude has a sense of humour. Actually, as one begins to delve beneath the surface, there’s a whole lot of optimism and astute observation going on here disguised as something to make you laugh. There is a lot of copy and pasting and linking to other sites, however one sees it is mostly in a vein of thinking, yet it does leave the reader wondering what is his writing and what belongs to other people.
There is some deft sentence construction here. The writer reveals his mind and ideas using a particular brand of humour that not every writer is capable of. In the post ‘First’ where he is revealing encrusted fingernails and the depth of fatherly love, he does it with a wry sense of levity and a wide sphere of reference including Freud and Jung. I must also say I was impressed with the use of vocabulary. It is rare to find blogs that have more than a run-of-the-mill vocabulary, and the use of ‘rent’ in a sentence was appealing. It provided me with a delightful reading experience.
The design is sparse, and economical loading very fast in my chosen browser. The sparsity of bells and whistles though allow one to focus wholly on the writing, and is very easy on the eyes. The linkage is in a reliable left navigation menu, yet when hoping to dig deeper, methodical clicking revealed every archive link was dead; all were ‘404 not Found’. This was very disappointing. All the off-site linking lead somewhere, but what I really wanted was to explore this blog’s past in more detail. Yet, I was denied!
Seeking more information, I scoped the profile page. His claimed title of ‘Sr VP Rebellion’ was interesting. One does have to wonder whose rebellion he is speaking of. He’s been using blogger for a respectable five-year period and he has a substantial word and post count, although I suspect it is from a combination of the other blogs he writes.
Back to blog: I feel I must say his ‘current grief’ is a short and cutting little paragraph about antinomianism was very illuminating regarding his overall raison d’etre regarding this blog.
I would reccommend reading this blog on a regular basis, if only for the lack of reliable archives and he does have interesting perspectives to share and when he does write originally it is of an excellent quality. You don’t want to miss some witty, brilliant piece of writing, because once it’s archived, that’s it… it’s gone, lost in the ether somewhere or hoarded in Blogger’s control panel somewhere.
I believe this blog will appeal to a more mature audience, in touch with politics and with a social conscience. A sense of humour is a must, and if you want a highbrow laugh from time to time, this is a good place to find it or a jump off point to it.http://brianhayes.com