Saying that this blog formed by accident would be quite an understatement. I had always wanted to blog, but have been hesitant simply because it appears to be the new cool thing to do. Commonly, if I do not learn of something first then I don't particularly want to be involved with it after it has become the new trend. For example, one of my favorite artist MIA's smash hit "Paper Planes" was one of my favorite songs when I bought her new [at the time] album Kala. Once it started playing on the radio and it became the theme song for Pineapple Express I felt it necessary to delete it from any play lists and I chose a new ringtone as well (I chose James Brown "Mother Popcorn" as the replacement). A couple of friends of mine both created new blogs and told me about them. I was excited to read them, and so I joined the site so that I could properly follow their articles. I was unaware that I had to create my own blog in order to comment on their blog. Nevertheless, I decided it might be a good idea to have my own blog since the opporitunity to conform had presented itself so cleverly. I couldn't get around it this time.
Why was I such an "anti-blog" in the first place? Once reason is that the term blog is intimidating. Urban Dictionary.Com's most popular definition reads
blog: n.
Short for weblog.
A meandering, blatantly uninteresting online diary that gives the author the illusion that people are interested in their stupid, pathetic life. Consists of such riveting entries as "homework sucks" and "I slept until noon today."
If this was what general society thought about a blog then based on this definition I couldn't possibly want to be a blogger. No person would want to associate themselve with such a bad stigma. The most popular deifnition of blogger read
blogger n.
Term used to describe anyone with enough time or narcissism to document every tedious bit of minutia filling their uneventful lives. Possibly the most annoying thing about bloggers is the sense of self-importance they get after even the most modest of publicity. Sometimes it takes as little as a referral on a more popular blogger's website to set the lesser blogger's ego into orbit.
Then God forbid a blogger gets mentioned on CNN. If you thought it was impossible for a certain blogger to get more pious than he was, wait until you see the shit storm of self-righteous save-the-world bullshit after a network plug. Suddenly the boring, mild-mannered blogger you once knew will turn into Mother Theresa, and will single handedly take it upon himself to end world hunger with his stupid links to band websites and other smug blogger dipshits. "Basically any user of www.livejournal.com, www.greatestjournal.com, etc."
Even Stephen Colbert contributed to the bad stigma about bloggers saying "In case you don't know a blogger is a person with a lap top, an ax to grind, and their virginity." (Cobert is a jokester! haha) Such negative publicity is one thing that made me want to create my own blog. I don't think I could actually follow these definitions. I hope to make this blog interesting, which means it's not going to include a chronological synopsis of my daily activities. In fact, I may not even write everyday. I'll just write when I have something interesting on my mind. Most of all I will not give into the stereotype definition mentioned on Urban Dictionary.Com.
Hello! I'm Kylie Martinez, the anti-blogger.
Then God forbid a blogger gets mentioned on CNN. If you thought it was impossible for a certain blogger to get more pious than he was, wait until you see the shit storm of self-righteous save-the-world bullshit after a network plug. Suddenly the boring, mild-mannered blogger you once knew will turn into Mother Theresa, and will single handedly take it upon himself to end world hunger with his stupid links to band websites and other smug blogger dipshits. "Basically any user of www.livejournal.com, www.greatestjournal.com, etc."
Even Stephen Colbert contributed to the bad stigma about bloggers saying "In case you don't know a blogger is a person with a lap top, an ax to grind, and their virginity." (Cobert is a jokester! haha) Such negative publicity is one thing that made me want to create my own blog. I don't think I could actually follow these definitions. I hope to make this blog interesting, which means it's not going to include a chronological synopsis of my daily activities. In fact, I may not even write everyday. I'll just write when I have something interesting on my mind. Most of all I will not give into the stereotype definition mentioned on Urban Dictionary.Com.
Hello! I'm Kylie Martinez, the anti-blogger.
