- Around The Blogsphere -

This is an overview of what's going on with other people's blogs, whose decided to jump on the bandwagon, and the current status of these people's blogs that I have linked on my own, and visit daily with fervor. This will be a mid-year review of the blogs I find funny, empowered by, and highly amused to an extreme caliber.


"Ogie - The Insane (The Mad Have Come Home)*

Since it's birth late March of this year, it has slowly plotted along amidst the throws of it's author who has had had a topsy turvey life of late - but it is shaping up to be a decent blog of sorts. The author has been a long time mate of mine for at least 8 years now, and have been through thick and thin. He's take on life is unique and can often be labeled melodramatic, pessismistic, and dramatic. But fact is, things are written often how they are felt by him.
Since conception his posts have looked at everything from insomnia to insanity, marriage to Metallica, boredom through to bitching, job seeking, being fired, mental pain, and petrol issues.
The author's journey through life has been long and hard: underestimated by a lot, understood by a few. Consequently, his approach to life and the things that come with it, is unique unto him and unlike anything I've seen before in someone. This abounds in his posts but he does limit his expression and detail to something minimal. It could be said that he's a "typical Aussie battler out in the sticks" but throw in a psychological roller coaster, internet addiction, and a troubled young man and you get a blog that is worthy of your time and thriving with potential to become something good. With closer attention to the layout template, post topics, and content in general, he may well have a real good blog that shows the other side to life that is experienced by some, but survived by few.

"Words Of Madness"

The fiance of the aforementioned blogger, I became friends with her through him and subsequently have been friends since. She has a similar outlook to her other half, and tends to have her a blog as a way of dealing with whatever it is that's on her mind. Incessant ramblings some might regard them, even the author herself, but even the most mundane of things can be touching and thought-provoking. Her life nearly involves the same interests as her beloved fiance, hence why you could say they are together. They battle the shit and face another day. Life fluctuates as much as a thermometer gauge caught between a fire cauldron and an Antarctic freeze outside it - in one post things are good and looking up, next it's full of drama, turmoil, and shite that can be done without. Some may regard her blog as a whinge (like she does) and some may find it blatantly boring, but if you look closer, you may find there is something worthwhile there. If you do check it out, comment on the damn thing too. What one person may find boring, someone may find touching, intriguing, and more often than not, an insight into one person's life that overrules any soap opera. But most importantly, it presents the survival of this life, of her life, where most people would have abandoned a long time ago but she still holds on and treasures it.

"Sunday Of My Life"(formerly the blog known as The Insane-O-Matic)

2003 years after Jesus was born, this blog had it's advent. Another long-term mate of mine for 8 years, he started his online jounal in the hot summer of Christmas once his fellow bloggers like myself had started up.
The author lives on just the other side of town from me, we're similar but vastly different. He's more prone to be at the computer which sees his blog updated regularly since he made an oath to do so of late. He's close relationship with his sisters has seen many a post about them and gives you an idea of what's like being the only male in the house (apart from his father). This blog is one that blends in and out of styles and could be about anything from his love of cooking to his condemnation of those responsible at the Microshat empire for Powerpoint, through to his sensitive sense of smell for fumes and other dis\pleasantries. Although his blog may not be to the liking of a large majority of your Average Jo readers out there, it would nonetheless, I'm betting, be appreciated by those who know him and share similar thoughts. His gift for "useless trivia" is astounding, occasionally annoying, but interesting eitherway. Like anyone, some posts may have flopped like his tale of a D&D related character, Rien, but his rants about his famed next door neighbor is quite humorous, and his disgust for a Tafe teacher he belovingly calls " Fuckrag" is understanding but amusing simultaneously. He has sampled the work place and undergone some beguiling shenanigans that, although, has got him on his "high horse", has matured him for future employment and opened his eyes to the world, and the workplace at hand (in my humble opinion). From his own sense of the world around him and what goes on, it shows through in his blog posts. It started small but with encouragement from others, it is starting to slowly bloom into something that resembles a diverse engagement of life seen through the eyes of a cooking, comedy-loving, D&D playing, geek who's proud of who he is. Blood good on him I say. If there's going to be one geek who shall inherit the Earth, and be his own person, then it's this man.

"Living Is The Most Dangerous Thing We Can Do"

A mouthful to say and impossible to say in a rush, this guy is the newest one out on the circuit. An old friend of a few years from the days of college, he decided to partake in blogging because he figured it would be a good way to get it off his chest. Young in it's age (a couple of weeks in fact), he has blogged about his first party and the unusual events that proceeded the night that I previously covered a while back. Tonight he's just posted about his parents posing curfews over him...at the age of 19. Give this guy a go, he's a smart chap, and needs encouragement to get his blog up and off the ground.

*Hecho En Mexico*

I'm somewhat hesitant to give an overview of this one, it just seems so epic in it's maturity, experience, and is overpowering for the magnitude of popularity this blog has received, not to mention it's fan base.
This guy, like the 3 I've mentioned, has been a mate of mine for 8 years as well but the first and foremost of these friends I came across. He has been blogging for a fair while now and has grown from an amateurish blogger to a writer whose writing style is a continual inspiration to myself and others, perhaps also an envy of ours. His care can be clearly seen in the way he constructs his posts carefully and respects the reader with proper grammar and the occasional tantalising tid-bits that adds humour to the most mundane or serious of issues.
He's outstanding passion for trains, Bhangra, Dancehall, DJ-ing, photography, amongst other things, is overwhelming at times and astonishing at the attention he has for detail, fact, and understanding of the topic at hand. This can be evident throughout his blog. This guy lives and breathes trains. Nerdy it maybe, he is rather trendy in many ways (including the blog), and has had many a comeback with his online publication after a series of events caused him to shut them down. He is also concurrently busy with his radio program on community radio station, SYN FM whereby his show debuted last night. Impressive. Not to mention the DJ at my upcoming 21st party this Saturyda. Yay! If this guy were to analyse the blogs he has linked on his blog, God forbid. They are testimony of just how many people like his blog for what it is and how many he takes an active interest in and associates with. Considering there is just too much to mention about this fellow blogger and friend of mine, his blog speaks for itself.
If any blog would be the true representation of blogging genius, it would be his. If any blogger would be the figure-head of all bloggers, this guy would be it. Call me biased, but I like it.