Monday, August 18, 2014

Do Blogs Even Count?

For the purposes of Stale Reviews, I must ask if Blogs count as reading?

First, it has been my sole intention to review the books that I read over the course of...well, forever.  I love to read and enjoy soaking in stories.  So, do blogs count as reading?  Should they even be reviewed?

I have been reading this one blog by this fella named Randy.  He's posting on the regular over at http://mobilecodgers.blogspot.com/.  Anyway, Randy is living a good life, apparently. He spends most of his time in New Mexico dragging his house behind his truck and settling wherever he damn well pleases.  Yep, he's got himself a little trailer house and goes and parks wherever the wind takes him.  I'm guessing he's retired but I'm not a hundred percent on that one.

So, reading his blog I get the strangest sensation.  But, I can't tell what it is.  So, I will put the possibilities out there for us all.

1.  I like him.  He is living the life that he wants in the way that he wants.  I totally dig that.

2.  I want to be him.  See above.  There is freedom there...also dig that.

3.  I want to punch him right in the fucking ballsack.  While he is living his life the way he wants, Randy also comes off as a pompous, arrogant, know-it-all type as he expounds ever so generously on religion, living a traditional life, and so on...  Fuck, that annoys a reader.

Anyway, this ain't a normal Stale Review type review.  But, it's a blog.  It's somewhat interesting and has tons of pictures of people and places.  Just forget that Randy can be a blowhard that doesn't quite know how to use his spell check and you'll be just fine.

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