Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Hello Neighbor! - it's other people's stupid blogs!

I've been having a lot of fun using the 'Next Blog' button. That is, if by the last sentence I actually meant 'pressing the 'Next Blog' button has destroyed what little faith in humanity I had'.
"ROFL!"
Here are some of the worst offenders:

Belmont Park Odds Live Horse Racing Betting Odds Triple Crown 2005


This site, which I believe has something to do with betting on horses begins with the hauntingly beautiful introduction: betting wagering horse racing bet giacomo belmont park belmont park racebook odds online belmont stakes betting belmont park offtrack betting online belmont stakes betting bet on belmont stakes online belmont stakes betting bet the belmont betting off track belmont triple crown betting belmont stakes horse racing wagering triple crown horse racing gambling belmont stakes racebooks race track gambling betting horse racing belmont stakes triple crown betting horse betting, which I find to be almost Joycean in its linguistic inventiveness. Further down we see more evidence of literary genius in a lenghty and baroque interview with 'Dalton Wagner, Founder V.O. Group, S.A.', which at times recalls Pynchon at his most obtuse and the imagined horse-racing worlds of a young Jack Kerouac.
Overall I give this site:

Mickey Rourke.

mymiamidirectory

More genius in blogspot! mymiamidirectory (like the genius art-hip-hoppers on Oakland's anticon records it's all lower-case!) effortlessly deconstructs late consumer capitalism with its droning, repititive paragraphs promising information on golf clubs and yatching in the art-deco inspired metropolis. Like the culture it parodies it promises so much but inside its sheer minimalist layout lies so little.
This magnificent site deserves a score of:

Minnie Driver.

mike=gay

This is one of my favorites. Again using the lower-case only method, 'phatty' (possibly a psuedonym of literary wunderkind David Foster Wallace) crafts a powerful story of the eponymous 'mike' who is, if I may take an extended quote comprised of 3/4 of the work, "gay with his fat friend". Where this literary masterwork, still in its early stages, will lead only time will tell. The author has taken a bold step in telling the story of confused teenage homosexual 'mike' from the point of view of the clearly retarded 'phatty', a technique that echoes Jonathan Saffran Foer's Everything is Illuminated while deftly sidestepping Foer's more crassly commercial leanings.

Overall: Sylvester Stallone.5