Lately I’ve been in the habit of reading blogs I don’t normally read (some of the new ones in the Links section and some others that are new to me). Frankly, I’ve been reading the blogs with the intention of criticizing them. I’ve been looking for faults to exploit. My motive for such is pretty obvious, it’s my primary source of enjoyment when reading blogs. And I’m glad to respect anyone also reads with that intention. Digression aside, I’ve been able to draw one conclusion: Anyone who puts a musical score into their post or article sucks at writing.

One basis of respect I have for writers is the fact that they don’t have the advantage of a musical score, unlike movie directors. And as if blogs weren’t bad enough, people started adding music to them! All you have to do is look around at some of the neighboring blogs and the blogs that neighbor them. The worst part is, the music usually doesn’t make an ounce of sense. The worst part of it is, what I thought were the worst blogs don’t even try to use music to make their writing better. Either they know they suck or the guys using music suck even worse. Whatever the case is, stop using music as a crutch for bad writing.

Finally, I’ll leave you all with some good music. Not to be listened to while reading.

The one year anniversary of this blog is coming up and it’s made me do some thinking. A year ago when I was still at Simple RP, there were about 3 blogs in the Garry’s Mod community (if there were more than feel free to crucify me), they belonged to DSRP, Rick Dark and I can’t remember which one was the third one but I’ll leave the mention in there. Today, a lot more people with, I guess, opinions to express, with a lot more blogs.

Now don’t jump to conclusions, I’m not belittling the fact that blogs are popping up everywhere now, in fact I think it’s a good thing. Prior to the recent blog boom, there were only a handful of overt opinions expressed in the Garry’s Mod community – now we have all the information we can fathom regarding liked and disliked communities. Despite some blogs consisting of nothing but “funny” links and pictures, most have a decent read or two every once in a while.

But the Garry’s Mod community isn’t the only place we see more blogs popping up. The world outside hasn’t been so fortunate. Quite frankly, there’s some really really shitty blogs out there. Like the TSA’s Blog, reminding all us citizens not to bring knives or bombs onto airplanes. I’m pretty sure Howard Hughes would shit a brick if he were around to see this today.

Let’s not forget the atrocious piece of trash that is Rosie O’Donnell’s blog. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, Rosie O’Donnell made a blog. I’m not sure it even deserves to be called a blog, it just seems like a complication of bad grammar and crappy poems all thrown into a website.

Here’s the bottom line people: If your blog ever reaches some sort of precedence and gets a large amount of readers, keep it genuine. Keep writing about the things no one cares about instead of the things people just really don’t give a shit about. Express some sort of opinion with your blog, whether it be verbally destroying someone’s reputation, reviewing a movie or talking about politics. Don’t fill up your blog with crappy poetry or mainstream advice on how to travel.

P.S. I’m still laughing at Rosie O’Donnell’s poetry, I mean holy SHIT it’s terrible.