This blog has a lot in common with a 13 year old girl
Posted by Rhodester at May 12, 2008 12:42 PM and is filed under uncategorized 
For quite a while now,
this blog has enjoyed a certain degree of frivolous immaturity, playing
at whim with whom it wants to, and skipping along singing Hannah
Montana songs.
But now, this blog is on the verge of blossoming into something more. It's time for this blog to start growing up. It's shopping for make-up right now, as we speak, and it's going for a new set of summer clothes. It's learning new, more grown-up songs, and it's going to start holding conversations about politics, religion and other things that grown-ups talk about.
Oh don't worry, this blog will always be a silly child at heart. It'll just be a more mature and focused one. This is all thanks to this blog's Uncle Jamie and Uncle Harry, who are so concerned they've decided to give it fashion tips and help it along.
Thus, this blog is very grateful to its two wise old uncles, and urges you to come back again to play, or maybe just sit around and chat.
Until then, this blog will be in its room.. on the phone with other blogs, no doubt talking about something important.
But now, this blog is on the verge of blossoming into something more. It's time for this blog to start growing up. It's shopping for make-up right now, as we speak, and it's going for a new set of summer clothes. It's learning new, more grown-up songs, and it's going to start holding conversations about politics, religion and other things that grown-ups talk about.
Oh don't worry, this blog will always be a silly child at heart. It'll just be a more mature and focused one. This is all thanks to this blog's Uncle Jamie and Uncle Harry, who are so concerned they've decided to give it fashion tips and help it along.
Thus, this blog is very grateful to its two wise old uncles, and urges you to come back again to play, or maybe just sit around and chat.
Until then, this blog will be in its room.. on the phone with other blogs, no doubt talking about something important.
Just as long as it doesn't come home with a 30-year-old parolee boyfriend and a dragon tattoo on its lower back.
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If it does, it's going straight back to GoDaddy.
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Hold the phone, here. I wouldn't over-react to the kindly uncles' advice (most of which seemed upbeat). You can switch the sidebar from left to right, as I also need to do, it would appear. You can move important items, such as that RSS thingy, upwards for more visability. But if'n I were you, I would make no attempts to focus more on important topics of the day. Anyhow, what's important to one person, such as socio-economic crises, isn't one whit important to another person, who just simply enjoys the humor of, say, Borat. (Don't you just love him? Oops, don't get me started.)
As I read the recent goat sox post and the one before, I thought, "Rhodester has really found his voice." More than ever before, it seems that your writing mechanics and style are able to convey the delicious fun that you have with life. There's an ease about your writing that would make it seem that your subjects just find you - and crawl up on your lap, begging to be written about. You're juxtaposing unforseen things in creative ways and giving us many a chuckle.
Don't write about what you should write about. Keep on writing about those unique and off-beat things that are bawling to be written by you and you alone. You're already there, kid.
All you really gotta fix are those mechanics the uncles mentioned and then promise to never again in this century use "it's" for possessive.
Bingo. Done deal. Dooce, be afraid.
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Are you sure? Because when it comes to this blog, it's audience is most important because its they who count the most.
Who's this "Dooce"?
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This reminds me so much of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy that it isn't funny (shaddap, Bob Younce).
@ Karen - No one told Rhodester what to write. His content is just fine. But if he wants readers, he needs some functionality and user-friendliness.
Now then. Dave? I believe we were discussing pink. Yes, lots of pink. With swooshes, you'd said... Oh, and you'll want some attitude, girlfriend. A little bit of red for flair?
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It's (its?) okay Uncle, I know Karen really well because she used to live across the street from us and her young'un would spend most of the day on our front lawn and in our house pestering me and drinking up all our sodas, but now that she's 18 she ignores me completely.
But, oh.. about KAREN.. yeah, she's harmless. I never follow her advice lest I end up in some sort of cult with a glass of Koolaid in my hand chanting dirges.
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I so get it, Uncle Jamie, er, I mean, James, that neither you nor Harry was recommending that Rhodester change his content. Chaos does indeed work for him, and that's part of his charm. It was his entry above (typical of his clever use of metaphor) that I was responding to, specifically the notion that the blog needs to grow up and start "holding conversations about politics, religion, and other things that grown-ups like to talk about." I'm not sure how Rhodester arrived at that conclusion from your suggestions.
Bottom line: The good writers have fun writing. Period. Paragrah.
When Rhodester (often) allows himself to address the off-beat stuff that tickles his zany funny-bone, he's really good. When he writes what he feels he should write, something is diminished. Heck, that's true for us all.
Somehow, I think Rhodester mis-read your pragmatic suggestions. And he certainly didn't respond well to my teensy-tiny reminder about it's vs. its. As if that type of thing really mattered when you've got the kind of talent that so many hacks and drudges dream of.
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Actually I was responding to a commenter at Men With Pens who suggested that I try to become more topical.
As for it's and its, ITZ just frustrating because I paid a grand for that damn seminar and here I am STILL inverting. I want that four hours of my life back.
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Hey, I never said you had to change the content! I like what you write.
Chaos works for you.
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oh..
..well, in that case, spam the trucks and make sure they all get painted red by Tuesday or the General's going to fire a gun into your left pocket and kill that lizard.
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Dave - you've...changed! Dig the shades though. I await with bated (baited?) breath your blog's evolution or devolution or revolution.
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I've scheduled my own drive-by and have started making changes now so I don't look like so much the rube. Not that you looked like a rube. I would never state nor imply that you were a bumpkin that really needed to come to the big city and learn how bloggers really "tho' down" as the kids say.
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