One Old Green Bus

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Blog Being Reviewed: One Old Green Bus
Reviewed By: Lexis Eldorado

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At First Glance: Kewl, a 'we have a dream' blog!

Template/Design: Of course it's green, lol The Template matches the purpose and it's not cluttered.


Content: This blog is all about this families goal to acquire a Old Green Double Decker Bus. Intermingled with the soft and hard ask (giving away the fact I work in Direct Marketing, lol) are stories about the family to get you emotionally involved in their lives and their quest for this bus. Quite interesting.


What is the first thing I would change about this blog?Nothing really. They have a purpose, they talk about the purpose and that's that..

What is the best feature of this blog? That even though they only have $361 dollars towards their $20K dream, I see them before the year is out being a Human Interest story and watch the money come flooding in.

Rating: 6.5I hope this gets you some more hits and maybe some more money.

Charles Thoughts and Blog

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Blog Being Reviewed: Charles Thoughts and Blogs
Reviewed By: Lexis Eldorado

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At First Glance: Why? SIGHHHHHHHH

Template/Design: I feel like I'm back on Space Mountain from my trip to Disney. This is one of the worse templates blogger has to offer! I am bereft of words on this one.

Content: Well, this is your typical blog. Talking about the day to day life. He said that this is a forum for him to talk about his thoughts etc. He didn't say that it had to appeal to me, lol With that, I have noticed that the Philippines community has a very tight and cohesive blog community, I admire that. Like the African American blog community, they too would like to join the mainstream and at minimum be seen as viable bloggers. I appreciate all of them submitting their blogs. I hope that through our sarcasm (which is expected), that they take the bit of advice we do give them. Like this blog needs some....life. Something is missing. I can't put my finger on it. The pictures are nice etc. but it just is not poppin.


What is the first thing I would change about this blog?Burn the template! Write Blogger and tell them to get that shyt off their blog programs, lol Then I would lively up the blog. Nothing wrong with being long winded, but if in your long windedness (is THAT a word), the reader gets wore out, that's not good.

What is the best feature of this blog? The pictures save this from being a replacement for Tylenol PM

Rating: 4

Hush and Listen - PT 2

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Blog Being Reviewed: Hush and Listen
Reviewed By: Lexis Eldorado

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Note: I have never been afraid of a penis and don't intend to start now. I have decided to break rank and review this person's blog.

Disclaimer: If you are inclined to have issues with homosexuality, the expression of such or is someone who can put it aside just enough to gather ammunition to come back and decide you have issues - then don't go to the site! Just read the review and keep it movin!

At First Glance: Hmmmm - stark imagery, typewriter font, intrigued.

Template/Design: I too, am not a fan of the three column template because it can become overwelming and your eyes don't know where to go first. Though it seems based on the volume of readers and the popularity of the site in general that it needs this much room to totally encompass what the blog is about. I think though with a name like Hush. Listen - You're screaming at the reader with all this clutter. We can't relax - so all that stuff at the bottom of each sidebar and the tags and the who's online and all that stuff can be cut - minimalize the movement of the eye and we can Listen.

Content: As I've said before, to review is to step outside of what you might personally believe. Let me start out by saying that yes I was a bit disturbed by the first erotic story, however, some eroticism is dark, sometimes it's about going places that make you uncomfortable. I had to keep reading and looking, and exploring to see if that post was the blog or if this blog just had a post. This is a beautiful blog. The poetry is so full of yearning, it begs you to reach out and touch the screen. I kept feeling like I was being privvy to a level of pride and pain and confusion and joy that I had no business being privvy to. I've never felt like that reading a blog. The pictures only add a visual, sometimes a flash of color to shock you and sometimes they blend into the words delicately, making you look, making you face....them. I was impressed.

What is the first thing I would change about this blog?I would revamp the clutterness of the page itself.

What is the best feature of this blog? The poetry. It is absolutely haunting.

Rating: 8

**WILDCARD**Prunella de Ville

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Blog Being Reviewed: Prunella de Ville

Reviewed By: Lexis Eldorado

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I interrupt this blog review to make an announcement

I have not been reviewing blogs on this site for that long and already I was starting to get antsy. Where were the good blogs?! When was I going to have a Blogasm at my computer...well people (cue the singing virgins please!!)

On Thursday, August 9th 2007 I have been elevated to heaven!






At First Glance: I thought my mom would get a few laughs out of this, but it made her more curious than ever. Now she wants me to take her to a sex shop so she can examine the Jack Rabbits. And she asked me, "Do you think it's easier for black men to hit the vagina walls because they are said to have bigger penises?" YEP this is the one ya'll!


Template/Design: There are few times, ok no times this puke pink moves me, but as you read the blog, you see how this template fits right in.


Content: Ever seen my name is Earl? Ever Seen Married With Children? Ever seen Mama's Family? Well their second cousin through inbreeding marriage runs amok on this blog! Yes there is an art to picture word combos, she has it. This blog is full of the funniest original content I've seen in awhile. Her use of celebrities and pictures adds so much life to her scathing commentary.


What is the first thing I would change about this blog?I would erase it and come up with it myself, lol

What is the best feature of this blog? That probably most people woudl think this is stupid as shit - which in my heart I believe is what makes it so brillant - to purposely be stupid as shit, actually takes great genius.


Rating: 11

Now everyone run over so you can come back and prove my point, lol lol

2 Blog or Not 2 Blog

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Blog Being Reviewed: 2 Blog or not 2 Blog
Reviewed By: Lexis Eldorado

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At First Glance: Who the hell can we contact over at Wordpress to stop the clinical look?! Ok, you wanna try to make other blog sites look like Myspace with all the bells and whistles but DAYUM can you give us something more than this!!?! Once again the actual template I am not going to review because it ain't even his fault.

Template/Design: For some reason I like my sidebars on the right, since we read left to right, I like to get into the story and let the sidebar be stuff I notice - not smack in my face first, but that's a personal preference. Just your standard template - so now I'm expecting fireworks in the words or this might go downhill kinda fast. My foot is on the clutch, give it to me mannnn!


Content: First off, the most recent post is about one of my favorite movie series Die Hard - I feel myself being sucked in....I tried to read the about and the 100's etc. but all links lead to a blank page, but I pieced together from reading this person is male (he was singing his balls off at one time, lol) and he's Australian. I equate this writing style to a person who walks the streets with a pen and pad in their hand. He rovingly reports the news in his world and it's not bad. Even a simple post, as if he's about to jump on the train but had to get the thought out - wets your palate in such a way, even if you don't want to, you end up stopping by. I personally liked this kinda vibe.


What is the first thing I would change about this blog? Pay or Barter with someone to add some pizzazz to wack ass wordpress. Switch the side bar.

What is the best feature of this blog? Sometimes we like our blog curtains wide open, we pull up a chair with our popcorn (or lube depending on what you get off on) and just look head on. Sometimes we like to peep over the hedges - this is a delicious peep over the hedges - I think I just grabbed myself, lol

Rating: 8

Blog About Your Blog

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Blog Being Reviewed: Blog About Your Blog
Reviewed By: Lexis Eldorado

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At First Glance: Interesting

Template/Design: Skimming down I realize this is a webzine about blogging. Hmm, that's pretty cool. What I can't believe is that a 'professional' blog has kept their sidebar so clean and to the point!! No excess! No 300 categories. YAYYY! NO ABUNDANCE OF ADS!!!!!!!

Content: I had to come at this from the perspective of being a blogger. Would this blog include anything I can take away and hack into my own blog? Would there be enough information relevant to todays blogging or some smart ass who has decided that they know all about blogging? I have to say this is a very well put together site. There is a buffet of different information available to you without overwelming you. They even do/did blog reviews. There are tips, tricks, information about making your blog better etc. I RECOMMEND THAT FOLKS GO OVER THERE BEFORE THEY SUBMIT THEIR BLOGS HERE! Ya'll know how you all are all about the Messenger and not the message. Maybe if they let you know you suck and add .com on the end, it will go down easier. The site was easy to navigate and I found the writing to be clear and concise without talking 'down' to you.

What is the first thing I would change about this blog? For some reason it looks like CNET to me. Ok, I couldn't find anything - so I just said that, lol


What is the best feature of this blog? That it was not cluttered, I could navigate, understand and come away with something useful. NO EXCESSIVE ADS! YAYYYY!

This is a second review, I say GOOD JOB GETTING IT TOGETHER! Here is your first review In my opinion, you have evolved into a good strong site.

Rating: 10

Here is a very good example of a non-personal blog submitted for review that took the time to give it that personal blog feel. I've seen personal blogs so cluttered and bogged down with awards you give yourself, goggle ads etc. and still remain irrelevant. This clean, crisp understandable information blogzine does well my friend. I'm adding to my blogroll and definately using some of your advice!

Everyday Wear - Maybe.........

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Blog Being Reviewed: Everyday Wear
Reviewed By: Lexis Eldorado

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At First Glance: Hmm, where are the clothes?

Template/Design: 157 Blog Categories!!?! Does no thought process overlap? Does every thought require it's own category?! I'm just not liking the template. There's just too much going on on the sidebar and the color needs to go. Sorry.

Content: Ok, ain't no clothes to be found, so I suggest the Title be changed and you jack our title cause this woman has a TON of blogs! THIS ONE and THIS ONE and THIS ONE and OH THIS ONE

Her entire family has welded themselves to the computer Her Daughter has a site which is really cute for girls. Her son has a blog as well. And guess what they actually have a life as well!! I am wore out just on peeking around fuck content.

Ok, Ok, the blog she submitted is quite frankly boring. She is a teacher and she talks about all things teacher. If you have a child and they are a student who has a teacher then you will find some good information. I have decided to bunk this review and review the blog I found interesting, lol lol

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Blog Being Reviewed: Off Beat Mom
By: Lexis Eldorado

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At First Glance: is not so sterile, it's got ketchup stains and bumps and bruises. Doesn't even look like the same person. They told me that Teaching can drive you to drink, especially todays kids - and I'm happy to say this is her with a Vodka tonic in one hand and a Tequila Sunrise in the other.

Template/Design: Love the header but it's wasted on a template that doesn't support it. Such an edgy header should have something else holding it up.

Content: Ok, this content has some life to it. I can see the blood pumping. She's intelligent to a fault (that's a compliment) but sometimes she let's it all go - cause like I said them idiots called our kids can do that to yah. One of my favorites happen right off the bat - HOW CAN A WOMAN WHO APPARENTLY HAS A COMPUTER IN THE BED WITH HER NOT WANT A CELL PHONE?! LOL LOL LOL. It seems as if it takes all of these blogs to capture this woman. She's taken the blogsphere and decided to record every freaking thought she has about every freaking subject. I am wore out - just wore out!

What is the first thing I would change about this blog? The template


What is the best feature of this blog? I guess there's something to be said for big brains - she ought to sleep peacefully at night because she unloads that bad boy on the daily.

Rating: 7 I give the blog she asked us to review a 2, because it is so generic, no flava at all unless you look at the My Family category.

Ramblings from a Gypsy Soul

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Blog Being Reviewed: Ramblings from a Gypsy Soul
Reviewed By: Lexis Eldorado

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At First Glance: Ohh Someone from Another Culture, I'm intrigued.

Template/Design: Almost thought it was a wordpress template but it's not. Plain, but I see heavy visuals in the content; so it might need to be plain white. The sidebar is enthusiastic. She's about travel and food and her sidebar reflects it. I'm intrigued.

Content: Wow! I feel like I haven't been out of my backyard reading this blog. It's like if the Travel Channel and The Food Network had a baby, lol. There's one thing to scour the net looking for appropriate pictures to tell your stories and actually taking them. Her photos are vibrant and colorful and you almost feel like you can touch a leaf or the sand or run through the ocean. Now some of the food made me want to hurl, but I'm sure she's seen some shit we eat over here that has made her want to do the same thing, lol. In terms of the writing. She tells the story without all that 'extra'.

What is the first thing I would change about this blog? More pictures, lol I love looking at these pictures. I would like to see a more vibrant template. There's got to be some type of really cool travel template out there just waiting for her.

What is the best feature of this blog? A great merger of visuals and words.

Rating: 9 Also here is her VT Page for those interested.

Twenty Somethings

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Blog Being Reviewed: Twenty Somethings
Reviewed By: Lexis Eldorado

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At First Glance: Quite Cosmopolitian I'd say!

Template/Design: Sometimes three column blogs can go overkill, but I actually like the way this is arranged. Twentysomething folks have alot going on anyhoo - so I like that at least the thing she has are topical etc.

Content: Muthafucking Awesome! Right off the bat, I likes me a curser. She's young enough to get away with it, unlike my old ass, lol. In the begining she took the whole blogging thing as a joke and she still has that 'feeling' in her words, but she's all the way hooked, lol. She keeps it well rounded, topical and New Yorkish. She drinks, she cusses, she hates the concept of work - um is this my damn Freaky Friday?! This is her second review, I went on the hunt for the first one, but couldn't find it - so I don't necessarily know how this if this is the same or an improvement.

What is the first thing I would change about this blog? Maybe add my name in there, because damn if she isn't getting into my head. Don't know if that means she's mature or that I'm hella immature but I'll work with it.

What is the best feature of this blog? That like the blog she started with a bit of contempt - she treats her life with that same kinda contempt and it works because as we know YOU LIVE, YOU GET SCREWED and then YOU DIE - she is making sure she gets screwed with plenty of lub and a condom! You know you can train the screw to benefit you, lol


Rating: 10 I gotta add you to the blogroll - I'll soon be looking for work with you since I really have NO MORE TIME TO WORK SINCE I'M READING BLOGS!

Tales of a Transported Bostonian

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Blog Being Reviewed: Tales of a Transported Bostonian
Reviewed By: Lexis Eldorado

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At First Glance: Lindsey Lohan meets Barbie maybe?

Template/Design: The color is just a bit too IZOD pink for my taste. The sidebar is cool, yet for some strange reason, it feels as if the words are getting cut off. I am also not keen on the font.

Content: LONGGGG WINDED! Good Lawd, must every story go into every single detail. I'm sorry, but this reminds me of this girl at my job who rambles on and on and I start to draw little puffs of air in my mind on top of her head and to make it futher interesting I give her the voice of like Alicia Silverstone in "Clueless" to give it some texture. She has a full and active life and has love therefore she has alot of stories. She also seems to have a gaggle of readers who have ALOT of time on their hand to read all of this. Sometimes details can add, but for me, the entries are just soo long. Like alot of things, I saw some things I can relate to. One thing stuck out we both have a thing for Coach Bags, but overall in my real life I would walk past this table in the lunch room and snicker at the OMG's and I probably would do this with this blog.

What is the first thing I would change about this blog? The color scheme. It's pepto pink and aggravating.

What is the best feature of this blog? That though it's not my cup of tea - she has connected with an audience who apparently LOVES HER! They love her life, they love her Prince and as a person who is loved on their own blog, who gives a shit what the review says - there's a tanning salon full of gals who are digging her.

Rating: 5 out of 10 - because of the apparent niche you have created, I can't hate like that. You apparently live your life by the milli-second, have a memory like an elephant and have people who sit and live every second with you.

Fon!Boki

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Blog Being Reviewed: Fon!Boki
Reviewed By: Lexis Eldorado

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At First Glance: I wish I knew how to pronounce this.

Template/Design: Common Wordpress Type Template. For all that Wordpress is, they suck when it comes to templates - so I won't blame this on the author.

Content: First let me start off by saying, WHO THE HELL IS THIS?! I couldn't find anything about the author. Then it became quite intriguing most of the post are speaking outwards with opinions mostly on relating. Then I came upon a post celebrating the Brothers Birthday (cause I swear I am unsure if this is a man or woman) - and Walah, I find out that the Brothers Blog is quite interesting, lol (and he shares a first name with my own brother) - but this isn't about him. Why this became intriguing is because going back and reading, I now feel depth somewhat. Here is a person grappling with alot of western world issues and thought processes - that is from another school of thought. So now reading this, I feel somewhat slighted. I wanna hear about this struggle instead of talking as if you are some kinda 'professional'. I don't even know if they actually wrote this stuff. I'm going and read some of the blogs they read - they are probably more intersting.

What is the first thing I would change about this blog? I would put up my Dr. Phil hat and talk from my own 'real' perspective. Stay in the Vein of THIS POST and I might actually be back.


What is the best feature of this blog? The non-relationship things - unless you're telling us about your relationship.

Rating: 4 out of 10.

Sensibilities

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Blog Being Reviewed: Sensibilities
Reviewed By: Lexis Eldorado

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At First Glance: NOOO NOT THE DO DO BROWN AGAIN!

Template/Design: The Sidebar has now taken the new record for longest in history. I still am smelling the stench of the basic brown blogger template. I will just spray some febreze and get to the content.

Content: Please close your eyes and come with me...we are in Tennessee in the early 1800's - our Husband has been out with the boys reliving childhood games and has discovered a cave. He's decided that he wants to spend your life savings to dig to some secret cave he knows exists - he finds this cave and due to his undying love for you - he makes you, petticoats and all crawl on your belly to show you the cave and the subsequent Falls that lay within the earth. He is so in love with you that he names them RUBY FALLS. You are so in love with this adoration that you come down often to write and read in this dark dank cave. Welcome to Sensibilities people! This is a writer in the true sense of the word - but she is very very early 1800's in her style to me. She's been writing awhile too folks! I went back to her first post and was shocked to see that she is also a psychic:

I was diagnosed to be suffering from second-degree malnourishment due to borderline anorexia, not because I believed I was too fat, but because I did not feel hunger anymore. It got so that I had difficulty concentrating on anything, especially my writing.

I too no longer feel anything after reading. As much information as is compiled here, I feel malnourished for some reason.

Let me say this though - This is the most well written literary style blog I've ever read. She knows she's boring as hell and she puts the right pictures (renaissance)and adds some color so you just don't...48w9g8whao (sorry my head hit the keyboard).

What is the first thing I would change about this blog? Here's the hard part. This blog appeals to alot of people. She is an excellent steward of words and that is a feat with this bastard language. She's also a published writer several times over - so messing with her content would not be wise, however, shortening the sidebar even more and maybe finding some great picaso template as a back drop would add some flair for the eyes.

What is the best feature of this blog? That there is confirmation in the visual era that BOOKS are still relevant and that there are lovers of the written word.

Rating: 5 out of 10. I know this is a bi-polar post at best, but you have to really be into this entire life that is books and writing to get into this blog.

The Web Pen Blog

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Blog Being Reviewed: The Web Pen Blog
Reviewed By: Lexis Eldorado

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At First Glance: What the hell is this?


Template/Design: It was cluttered like a a Junkyard. There was alot of side and bottom clutter as well. My eyes are criss crossing.

Content: As the theme from Fred Sanford begins in the recesses of my mind - I am on point about this place being cluttered. He's a comedian, but unfortunately this is just not my cup of tea - but are reviews really about what I like or what someone else might like? I say - PLEASE TAKE ME OUT OF MY MISERY, but someone may like this humor. He got cartoons and all kinds of shit - he must have known someone would be confused because he also has a Favorite Post section; but sorry I got lost and am sitting on an old tire - waiting on the search and rescue team.


What is the first thing I would change about this blog? Moving it from my screen to YOURS!

What is the best feature of this blog? That he has the nerve to have a spot where you can translate this into another language - it might work in say Swahili.

Rating: 3 out of 10 - it just was not my cup of tea.

Tiny Voices In My Head

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Blog Being Reviewed: Tiny Voices In My Head
Reviewed By: Lexis Eldorado

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Note: Wanted to say sorry for totally missing you last go round.

At First Glance: Who did that drawing of her? Cool! Hmm, for some reason reminds me of an ad for a drive-in.


Template/Design: Nice template if you ask me. I started laughing right at bumfuck, PA (My family lives there and I totally agree). A woman who puts up her secret panty wetter is alright with me, makes me wanna put up mines. The defined lines gives it a 50's drive-in advertisment look. Her sidebar is neat and has personality and I liked the fact she had her About Me right there - no clicking! Now through the grapevine - it seems as if me and girls over here have been called straight pussies for our content on this here blog - but last time I checked that's waht I had - - so I for one am just being me. If you want me on the rag - give me something to be on the rag about - this one ain't it.

SUFFERING FROM HEATSTROKE FROM A DAY AT THE BEACH AND BREAKING FORMAT!

As I was reading through her blog and laughing my ass off in certain places. I came across this entry RIGHT HERE - So I said, well these are the Top 10 Things she looks for in a blog, let's see if she has them her damn self!

1. NO MUSIC. - Wellllll she does have a song and a nasty ass one at that - however, it is your choice to play it and I am as I write this entry.

2. CONTENT. She is a blog veteran! She's been blogging since 2004 and I mean blogging! I thought I had a whole bunch of shit running around in my head - but this woman got me beat and she has quite a following, which means now I'm jealous so no telling where this review is going to go. I do admire the fact that her tiny voices are quite articulate and everything is for the most part a complete thought and they even spit out Haiku's. Hmmmmm

3. PARAGRAPHS. Everything is academically correct.

4. EASY TO READ COLOR SCHEME. She was wise to contrast the dark colors with white - so the white has become a color and not a drab white...wash.

5. A BLOGGER WHO AT LEAST ATTEMPTS TO SPELL CORRECTLY/USE PROPER GRAMMAR. I probably have chopped up the ole Kings English right here in dis entry - so i won't even try to act like I checked for this, laugh.


6. LAYOUTS VOID OF LARGE, UNCOMPRESSED IMAGES. Nothing shut down my computer so that's cool.


7. PEOPLE WHO USE HALOSCAN COMMENTS. LOL - Blogger can make you gouge your eyes out - I had to leave them alone!

8. A DECENT LAYOUT. I gave up on this as well and I'm glad you didn't attempt.

9. BLOGGERS WHO HAVE SOME SORT OF ABOUT ME/PROFILE PAGE. Yours tells your story and keeps your interest

10. IT'S GOTTA BE MORE THAN MEMES. Ha! Ha! Seeing as the first post of July is a...DRUMROLL PLEASE...MEME, lol lol


What is the first thing I would change about this blog? Damn I'm looking - ok, I would add more panty wetters - I'm sure there are more, lol


What is the best feature of this blog? That it reads like she's carrying us around in that little titty hump you get when your bra is too small - we are privvy to everthing.

Rating: 10 out of 10 - Yea I am adding you to my blogroll. I likes!

Wired for Noise

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Blog Being Reviewed: Wired for Noise
Reviewed By: Lexis Eldorado

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At First Glance: Is this an advertising site?


Template/Design: Well, it certainly is colorful, lol but it is cluttered a bit. I do see how she rearranged the three column template to lay it out differently by not putting the blog in the middle, but the actual blog gets lost - this needs VACUUMED really bad, lol


Content: Ok I hope the Author comes back over here because I need some clarification. Apparently my cognitive thinking skills went on vacation because I've been back twice and I can't find any archives deeper than the ones on the page. Did you just start this blog? Well I put on my logging boots and began to clear the 'brush' to get to some content and it wasn't so bad. Her 100 things could be 100 blog entries in itself. Quite intriguing. This is like a teaser blog - I see great potential, but she does have two very young children, so I'm sure blogging gets tossed by the wayside more than she might like.

What is the first thing I would change about this blog? Unclutter this bad boy!

What is the best feature of this blog? The potential this blog has based on all the previews I'll call them that I've read.


Rating: 7 out of 10

Northwest Ladybug

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Blog Being Reviewed: Northwest Ladybug
Reviewed By: Lexis Eldorado

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At First Glance: Another Template 101 and a dark one at that.


Template/Design: Well, she is using a basic blog template but one of the crisper ones. She has this international flair as evidenced by the flag roll call down the side. I think it adds a pop of color so it's okay. I am just neutral on the template - let me get into the meat.

Content: Who knew I had a sista of another shade, lol lol This was like reviewing my own blogspace and since I think mine is the shit - then SO IS HERS! I've said it before and I'll say it again - everyday life if conveyed correctly can be quite amusing and hers is just that. She also carries her camera around like me, lol The pictures whether taken by her or pulled from the web enhance the stories ten fold for example, here are some of my best posts: HERE and HERE and oh yeah HERE. I've already jacked her Meme's and for me it was just interesting reading. When she talked about if she could do 35 over again - my heart started racing - HONEY I FEEL YOU!

What is the first thing I would change about this blog? Oh I don't know. She's from Seattle and the template color fits - sometimes you don't need witty or bursting with color or animatronics to make things work.

What is the best feature of this blog? The content. She's a great storyteller.

Rating: 10 out of 10 - Alrightyy then I've been passing this out like stickers at the Drs. office, I'm losing my damn edge and I started out sooo 'overdoing it' LOL. I guess I'm being biased because she's my Northwest twin - but oh well. I said I needed to branch out in my blogroll, and you are my maiden voyage.

Let Me Go On and On

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Blog Being Reviewed: Let Me Go On and On
Reviewed By: Lexis Eldorado

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At First Glance: A peek into a life of a Christian lesbian who loves God, yet is beaten down by other Christians for loving someone of the same gender. Some posts may be controversial, and others are humorous stories of Debra Pasquella’s life. Make yourself at home! YIKES!

Template/Design: There's this darkness the goes against the description of the blog. It makes you immediately feel dark and depressed - irregardless of the white. Which is another thing - too much white! I felt like I was in the loony bin.

Content: This is where my reviewers hat become glued to my head. It's not about what I think or my beliefs politically, morally, religiously or otherwise - it's about how this person, living their life conveys it via a blog. She's on vacay now chillin somewhere nice, so no recent blog entries.
I read quite a bit and her opinions are strong, she spends ALOT of time backing up what she is saying and sprinkled in there are personal tidbits about her own life. Her writing style is a bit in your face as in "YOU KNOW I'M RIGHT" and there is alot of that big bolded letters, sometimes I wondered who is she trying to convince...I didn't go super deep beacause irregardless to what I said above - my own feelings about the intrepretation of religious text for one's personal use kept creeping in. I'm sure she has hoards of folks who are in agreement with her, maybe she should write to them and not to the masses, that way the 'edge' would be taken off and she would be speaking to friends. I just kept seeing argument after argument and unhappiness while reading.

What is the first thing I would change about this blog? The White The White. How about black with white words - it would go with the darkness of the picture.

What is the best feature of this blog? The discipline it takes to live a life ostracized by alot of people and write about it using the very text that they use against you. If you can understand what I mean?

Rating: 5 out of 10 - This is soley based on the fact that as an African American Muslim woman, I raise my eyebrow at the 'feeling' I kept getting behind the text. That drips of water falling on your head while you're at the bottom of a siloh kinda feeling. Courage gets a 5.

Surburban Oblivion

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Blog Being Reviewed: Surburban Oblivion
Reviewed By: Lexis Eldorado

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At First Glance: YAWN Another Mom with alot of time on her hands during nap.

Template/Design: I Love the heading: Surburban Oblivion - Who are these kids and why are they calling me mom - hilarious. I started to get itchy over the sidebars but then I saw THIS SITE and it totally redeemed itself. Her sides look like stickers from the Drs. So at least it's colorful, lol

Content: Well smack me and call me Myrtle. I like. The title already told me the perspective would be from Surburbia and thus I had prepared for a snoozefest, but I was pleasantly surprised. She talks about her life in a june clever/peg bundy sorta way and doesn't take it too seriously. I read some hilarious letter to her husband about sleep and she relates her stories well. Not to mention she gets Mad comments and has another site HERE and HERE as well. Her kids must be being raised by the Backyardigans, lol lol. Her site reads like Readers Digest. I like.

What is the first thing I would change about this blog? I would make my main blog a different template than the other two. Set it apart from the others.

What is the best feature of this blog? The writing and presentation of the writing (she uses pictures HOORAY).

Rating: 10 out of 10 - Yep! She has bursted my non-ten cherry! For some reason this blog got to me with it's pictures, it's stories, it's other blogs, the number of comments, the fact she is real and I have secret hatred about the mobilization of the mommy blogs, lol Congrats!!!

Doppler, A Roadies View

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Blog Being Reviewed: Doppler, A Roadies View
Reviewed By: Lexis Eldorado

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At First Glance: Nice solid uncluttered Template - bring on the great roadie stories.

Template/Design: I like. It's calming and doesn't cause temporary blindness. It reminds me of the concrete and open road (the color scheme) which fits a man who travels alot. I don't mind the advertisements - it's rock and roll baby! Nice - my hangover is starting to dissipate.

Content: Surprisingly this is a personal blog and a rather nice one if I say so myself. You have to exhale because you (1) won't be getting any hot groupie stories while on the road or (2) the names of anyone he works with - yet you get a feel this is a person who knows their job, enjoys it but isn't living through it. When he's not on the road - he's as normal as you and I. I read quite a bit because I liked the fact that his cadence never changed - which lended itself to that feeling that he was not a overly impressed.

What is the first thing I would change about this blog? Well I could say add some of the things I mentioned above, but I like it the way it is. I would maybe just add a bit more 'fire'. You know folks see Roadie and want you drunk really drunk at some point and time, lol

What is the best feature of this blog? As I mentioned above he comes across like it's life and I'm not that impressed without the sarcasm etc. and it works.

Rating: 8 out of 10 - Personally I liked it, but due to the fact that I was a little disappointed that you didn't have a panty collection or some wild shyt like that; I give it an 8 - you are ruining my image of the crew, laugh.

Altjaranga Mitjina

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Blog Being Reviewed: Altjaranga Mitjina
Reviewed By: Lexis Eldorado

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At First Glance: 4 Toggles to figure out how to spell the damn Title, A Meez! Pumpkin Orange! To much drinking in Savannah GA and this is not helping it at all.

Template/Design: Beyonce's "To The Left" began playing (no joke) just as I have begun typing this and it's oh so appropriate. I have never seen so much mess on a sidebar before in my life. He has everything except a 'pee-o-meter'. I had to scroll wayy down to find his archives etc. I am feeling more and more like this is a young person. YET his Meez,is like a concert goer for the Grateful Dead, so sorry to say this is a grown man.

Content: I had been over here before - but he was on a mini-haitus because of his fathers health issues. So I wanted to be respectful and not jump off during this time. So I just searched the blog to see what it was about. He is a suffering from vomitus blogus. It seems as if anything that comes to mind he posts about. It's definately one of those, I cut the TV on after I walked in the living room type blogs. Sometimes these work - sometimes they don't. My favorite part is the "Word A Day" and when you go through and pick out actual 'posts' about things in his life - he writes like he's narrating "The Wonder Years" - I just feel queasy with all the randomness (unlike the last time I posted and saw how that one just worked).


What is the first thing I would change about this blog? It's hard to actually say what I would change, because I truly believe that this guy is 'like' this and thus I see rooms in his home filled with old newspapers, magazines, and his internet cache full of links and because of that - it's his personality and I now do believe that he has some little stamps he puts under his tongue every now and again, laugh. So if I would change anything - I would offer him up a blog hosting site where he can make tabs and mini-pages to better house his randomness. I would also just delete the side bar - DAYUM!

What is the best feature of this blog? The very thing that makes it painful for me - the acid-trip that is obvious with this one.

Rating: 6 out of 10 - Because I don't label this a 'personal' blog persay - you get a six, if this were a personal blog you would get a 4 cause it's just a bit too splattered for my taste.