Other People's Blogs

So here I am, hanging out, just killing time waiting to go home so I can watch tonight's Farscape episode. And for the last little while I've mainly been amusing myself by clicking on random recently-updated blogs from the main blogger page. In the course of this, I have noticed several interesting facts. For instance (and this is something I've noticed in the past, as well, so it's not like there's just something special going on today), an astonishingly high percentage of recently-updated blogs appear to be written in Portugese. Seriously. Portugese. I have no idea why that should be. Is blogging a huge fad in Brazil? Is the entire population of Portugal on the internet? What? I've also noticed that there are a lot of blogs written in languages other than English whose titles are in English. Now, that's just annoying. Do I go naming my blog in Portugese so that unwary Brasilians will be fooled into thinking that the contents of my blog will appear in their native language? No, I do not. And it isn't just because I don't know a single word of Portugese, either.

Other things I have noticed while engaging in this singularly pointless activity: There are a lot of anime fans out there (and they appear to be really obsessive bloggers, too). There are also a lot of angsty teenagers out there, and weirdly, they all sound exactly alike. Also, there are a lot of people who eschew capital letters (whether because they think it's artsy or something, or because they're too damn lazy to hit the shift key, I don't know).

Oddly, the most appealing and possibly the best-written blog I found today consided almost entirely of one post dissing Attack of the Clones and one post about ear hair. This probably says something sad and profound about the state of the internet... But then, who am I to talk?