11:30 pm Rant

It seems that people have some kind of elitist idea to what a "blog" is supposed to be. Now granted, I'm all for putting the kibosh on bloggers who tYp3 Lik dis jUsT 2 LeuC Kewl (see MSN Spaces), but I think that the whole point of a blog is as a personal means of self-expression, whether it be poetry written in red text on a black background set to the music of Korn or Slipknot, or a review on the latest Hilary Duff CD. There are a whole lot of bloggers out there whose writings run the gamut from sublime to silly, but surely Hilary Duff fans have just as much a right to have a blog as the Mac pundits and the random URL-gathering bloggers who fancy themselves to be the next Matt Drudge.

The "It's my damn blog and I'll post what I want to" arguement is tired and clichéd, but that by no means makes it any less an arguement.

It's silly to go online and think that every person who sets up a Blogger, Xanga, or LiveJournal account has to be the next John Gruber or P. Z. Myers. For some people, a blog is all they have. Just look at Riverbend. No, wait, it's not just silly, it's just plain stupid. It's absolutely idiotic to expect that every blog you're going to see on the internet is somehow going to be a fountain of witty insights or spellbinding storytelling. You don't go into a bookstore expecting every book you pick up to be like a Shakespearean play, do you?

If you think that bloggers and their writings are somehow inferior for posting aspects about their life, then you have no right to post your filthy Flash-infested, websites packed full of bloody annoying bandwidth-clogging animated gifs and 1290x1680 jpegs. I'm not interested in your crummy fanboi art direct at the inane worshipping of some pointless sci-fi show or computer/console game intended for an audience with a collective IQ of a deck chair. In fact, I think I'll go over and post a link to your site over to /. for the sake of seeing your host be brought to its knees begging for mercy. Ah, Schaudenfreüde. It's a wonderful thing.


Ahh...all of a sudden I feel so much better now. I should do these late night rantings more often.