2005 Year End Review: Hey, Fucker! Listen! (x 6) to the Blog of the Year

In the beginning of 2005, I was gung-ho about blogging. Prior to 2005, I started with Livejournal, but found it to be quite boring. Then, I progressed to Blogger, which I found to be better than Livejournal. However, I became disenfrancised with Blogger's slow server and desired to be more proactive in the design and layout of my blog.

This lead me to WordPress, which I like even more, but depending on what you want to do with your blog, being a WordPress user often requires the blogger to be somewhat self-sufficient. When you consider that I had no knowledge of such concepts as HTML, XHTML, CSS, RSS feeds, etc., self-sufficiency proved to be problematic. More accurately, I attribute my lackadaisical approach to blogging and web design to be purely lazy. Once I became finally too flustered to move forward, instead, I opted to come back to Blogger.

Well, guess what, the times they are a changing...yeah, that was dumb, I know. Anyway, the ultimate goal for me is increased proficiency with WordPress and its idiosyncrasies, while becoming more proactive with the design and manipulation of the layout of my good 'ole Disciplinarian Actions program. The plan is to use my Blogger site as an archive of my blog, starting with the end of 2005 and going backwards. Starting in 2006, I plan to return to WordPress, with future plans to update the layout.

Setting aside this silly diatribe, I want to recognize a few blogs from people that I know as well as people I've met online through the Gay Bloggers Tribe and a couple celebrities' blogs formaking blogging interesting and aesthetically stimulating.


My favorite blog of this year has to go to my co-worker, Kern's, blog called Listen! Listen! Listen! Listen! Listen! Listen! Check it out here. Whether he's slinging mud at dumbass right-wing nutjobs (I won't mention names....Bill O'Reilly), sharing anecdotes on exactly how stupid unmentionables (again.....I cough out the words "Bill O' Reilly") really are, or educating me on Scott Walker's discography, Listen! (x 6) stimulates me daily.

My friends always complement me on how informed I am on music and upcoming shows. What they don't know is that I am nothing more than a blathering idiot on the continuum of music knowledge compared to Kern. His penchant for creating descriptive metaphors garnered him a regular writing gig for the DeLorean section of Tiny Mix Tapes. That position is well-deserved. If you want recommendations on genres of music even I can't accurately describe without sounding like a dork (not the kind of dork in the form of a silly Madonna lyric), Kern is your man.

In particular, I'd like to mention his recent synopsis detailing the "silly Merry Christmas v. Happy Holidays conspiracy theories that unmentionables (do I need to say Bill O'Reilly AGAIN?) start for no other reason than being a stupid, pseudo-Christian blowhard." Well-written and enlightening, Kern definitely knows how to use the right words to put members of unmentionables in the Idiot Brigade (I won't repeat myself this time) in their place.

All in all, well done, chap!

I'd also like to make a shout-out to other blogs that motivate me to wanna be a better blogger:

Drubskin*
D. Travers Scott
Bob Mould
Margaret Cho
Zeitzeuge
A Gay Muscleboy In Training
Palochi

Thanks, folks!

*Editor's note: You must be 21 to enter Drubskin's site, which contains adult content. But, it's well worth your while. Drub is an extremely hot and talented artist. TRUST ME! Also, don't try it at work.