Dear Duran Duran groupies,
For what inane reason(s) am I listening to Duran Duran? Well, I kinda like androgynous 80s boy-ish rock bands. And Amazon MP3 had their greatest hits CD for $5. And I just like the song Come Undone (the girl underwater in a straight jacket thing is haute*, but I could have done without the dude in a corset putting on lipstick). And I think that coiffed collars should make a comeback in a huge way!
And I don't believe that my listening to Duran Duran makes me any less of a man; my many posts about women should be plenty proof of my orientation, though some may say I'm overcompensating. Trust me, Melanie Laurent can turn any questioning man straight. An aside: all the good allusions to foreign languages are either in French or Latin...I should have reconsidered my choice of Spanish as my high school elective.
Anyway, getting to the subject of today's post: tell me what you like (and dislike) about my blog! In the past few weeks, liketheletterg.blogspot.com has undergone a facelift without looking like a face-snatcher a la Joan Rivers.
So I'm going to run down my blog's many features. The main one is that it's free without any hint of advertising. All it costs you is the time it takes to read my stuff, which I think is pretty fair. To patronize the author, please send him bottles of single malt scotch, preferably 18 years or older. Pictures of Melanie Laurent will also be accepted. VISA, Mastercard, and AMEX pending approval.
Avant-garde Conservatism
Labels, lables, laybells: When dreamersson got to around 50 posts, I had a difficult time remembering the names of old posts to reference. It would take me a few minutes just searching through my blog, so I used blogspot's label feature to help organize the subjects of my blog. Some of my favorite labels are not-so-tongue-in-cheek (meaning very blatantly humorous) and love lust and/or passion fruit.
Blog Google search: Along the lines of labels, blogspot also had a gadget to allow Google to crawl over my blog (eeeewwww, it is like when the attendants started licking the oracle in the movie 300). In return, I get to search for things I've mentioned in the past like references to Marisa Miller (I'm so over her) and Melanie Laurent (totally in love with her). Unfortunately, the search feature doesn't work all that well.
Subscribe via Email (delivered by Feedburner): A good friend commented that it would be awesome to have my posts delivered to his email. Wish granted! g is for genie, apparently. This Google gem was a bit more difficult to find and implement, but I aim to please. I subscribed to my own blog to make sure it works and isn't too intrusive. It passes on all marks.
If you want to subscribe to liketheletterg, just enter your email into the first box on the right hand side and follow the directions in the confirmation email that will be sent to you. I don't know who is subscribed to my blog, so I won't be spamming anyone.
RSS Feeds: Apparently, Feedburner runs off of things called RSS feeds. I'm guessing Feedburner snips the changes in the RSS feed at the end of everyday and sends it via email. When I set up Feedburner, RSS feeds were already set up on my site. *shrug* I'm guessing it came included with the blog? I'm not that big a techie; I'm just a boy from the ghetto.
Facebook notes: Facebook is starting to become like a creepy Big Brother + Soma rolled into one, like the dystopian novels 1984 and Brave New World. It monitors all kinds of people's activities at all times of the day and offers a fix via it's news feeds and farmville apps. I refuse to be a slave! But they have a cool feature of checking a blog and posting new entries as notes, so I couldn't resist the crack. I know that some people refuse to click on links, so I'll bring my writing a little closer to them.
Weekly Table of Contents aka g-Style: I came up with weekly summaries of my posts with some of my more random comments. It's development can be read here. If you don't read anything else during a week, if you read the TOC on Monday, then you'll be caught up and can figure out what you want to read, like a magazine table of contents.
Shorter posts: My old blog had some really long posts. People can't be bothered to read really long stuff; there's a reason why War and Peace isn't more widely read. So my posts became shorter as I became lazier. It is what it is.
The title by-line: 'the coming of age, bildungsroman-esque blog of an American-born, Vietnamese Catholic male.' It had been really long with stuff like 'ghetto-raised' and 'fresh out of school' and 'doctor of the highest honors', but I decided that it would be best to be short and sweet.
Oldies but goodies:
Blog archive: A list of my old posts organized by month and year
Followers: A collection of my true friends who took the few seconds to click the 'Follow' button on the right hand side of the screen. All it takes is a gmail account. It's not that important to me anymore; I haven't found it to be a useful feature except to placate my ego.
About me: A brief description of the identity I'm trying to create. I'll post a picture of myself soon.
Comment boxes: As monologue-y as this blog is, it is truly a dialogue. If you comment, I will respond. And I'll try to be speedy about it, but I am kind of a big deal after all.
Lasty, my favorite part of my blog: links to UGK clips via Youtube. I've been listening to Supertight while typing this entry, so you get to listen to an all-time classic (if you wish):
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*French for high fashion, as in haute couture. Though pronounced with a long 'o' as in 'oat', I think it's a very haute way to say 'hot'
4 comments:
u're right. Melanie Laurent is very pretty. i just googled her.
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she is beyond words... but the cool thing i've learned is that there are many women who are beyond words
that's a noob observation.
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"that's a noob observation."
You probably didn't get the underlying observation but its cool.
-egg cracker
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