Saturday, September 11, 2004
Okay, since you are twisting my arm...
One was listening to "Buffalo Stance" by Nenah Cherry. What a crappy song, yet I love it! No money man can win MY love, I'll tell you that.
The second thing was surfing random blogs at Blogger. Pretty fun, but I was pretty much bored at what I found. There was a lot of odd dead end sites, sites talking about Halo and LAN games (*yawn*), and a bunch of melodramatic reflections on 9/11... as if we don't all KNOW that it was an impact, and that all of us have mixed feelings about the world since. Nothing novel here. Some blogs were in Spanish, which reminds me that I need to learn that language. One even had a quote from Ray Bradbury (my favorite author as a youth) en espanol.
I did find a couple of great sites, however, but I forgot to copy their addresses. Duh! One was a girl gushing about the 5 year anniversary of Final Fantasy 8. Why is talk about LAN games boring and FF8 talk sexy? Beats me, it just is.
The other was a site that I had visited once before, written by a gay Filipino male. It is fantastic. Not only is it political and social commentary of the highest standard, it is fun and "bitchy." I'll qualify this comment by saying on the same page, he makes a very astute criticism of the Bush administration, and then mentions that world would be better if it was a giant Sanrio store. Nootch. (Sanrio is the Japanese company responsible for Hello Kitty and her kawaii friends)
I will post the link to this site soon so you all can check it out. He has a unique insight on US life, as well as a great sense of humor. I also suspect that he has a MENSA mind lurking behind the scenes. He mentions memes in his blog, which turned me on immediately.
For those of you who don't know (and you probably have no reason to know it), a meme is an idea that survives via the functions of evolution, and in many ways are as important to human development as are genes. This was all postulated by Richard Dawkins, a great scientist who often lashes out a bit too passionately against religion. But his views and models of the world of evolution are not only clever and insightful, but more often than not they are dead-on correct. His theory of how religion is meme is very interesting, and I suppose there is a great deal of truth to it. Of course, he likens the religion meme to a virus...
Mostly, I was overwhelmed at how many variations on Blogs there are. It goes to show how diverse, if not uninteresting, the human race can be. My own blog is an attempt to vent my thoughts... those that I have developed into mini essays, and those that were fleeting, and probably better not placed into the ether for all to see. But it is how I cope with my lack of friends, good conversation, desire to discuss the world of science and religion, and my lack of understanding of how and where I fit into my own life. And because of my blog, my life has become enriched. 1300 visits, 10 time zones, 105 posts, and a few great blogs (now forever doomed to be unviewed, lost in the world of "archives").
All of us struggle to find our niche, and desire to express ourselves. We want to understand how we relate to the universe, and we want others to understand us. In this way, all blogs are similar. Except for the one that was nothing but hack goth/vampire fiction. That was just wack.
See ya!