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The Gorgeous New Automobile

Although its not a sexy Italian or a sophisticated German, it has that undefinable, quintessentially British character. Welcome to none other than the 1978 Triumph Spitfire.



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Final Portfolio Published and READY TO GO!

and HERE IT IS!

Weebly!

My Weebly website is up for the multi-modal essay!
The topic is hooliganism, and it is quite interesting...
If you haven't already, I recommend you go to the nearest video store and rent Green Street Hooligans right now.

HOOLIGANS!

Annotated Blogroll

FAIL Blog: Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail Moments

FailBlog is a great blog listing contributions from many users across the internet detailing the failures of their fellow human beings. Although some entries are mean-spirited, the majority are poking fun at simple mistakes in life, whether it is a dumb kid attempting a slam dunk off of a trampoline or a sign that says “All employees must wash genitals before returning to work,” they are generally funny comments that point out incongruities in everyday life. Besides, the mean-spirited ones are pretty funny too. It is hard to resist laughing when the oblivious overweight cashier walks straight into a trap door opening to a basement, immediately disappearing into the abyss. All-in-all, FailBlog is a great way to blow off some steam and make you feel better about your own life. I have laughed at some of these failures more than I laugh at most anything, including my desperate attempts at humor in my own blog.


F*** my life: Your everyday life stories

If FailBlog is an easy way to make you feel better about yourself, then F My Life is the equivalent of hardcore prescription anti-depressant meds you get from your psychiatrist just before he resorts to the Ludovico technique. This is another general blog with input from many users on subjects ranging from the related “work” and money” to the polar opposites “love” and “sex”. The sometimes disturbing entries surprise with the sheer futility of the lives of some people, whether the person is actually that helpless, or if they are even more helpless because they feel the need to create fiction about how bad their lives are to make themselves feel better. Although the truthfulness of some entries is questionable at best, most are humorous enough to let their lack of honesty slide. As long as one has relatively low standards for acknowledging defeat, the stories on this website are all easy to accept as gospel; but if that’s the case then the individual relying on these stories to make it through the day might soon become an unfortunate regular contributor to this blog.


FrattingHard.com Fratty, Fratty, Fratty

A departure from the previous two blogs, FrattingHard.com is a blog dedicated to the epitomized life of a Fratdaddy or Sorostitute. The fratmosphere of the blog creates a feel of exclusiveness that can only be paralleled by mommy’s love and daddy’s Porsche. One of the finer additions to help the blog reader with new vocabulary is the dictionary included: defining anything from frat water to frat castle. As an out-of-context example, maintaining a large supply of frat water at the frat castle is essential for keeping around sufficient numbers of sorostitutes and not turning the fratmosphere into a douchebagoshpere. Although this is a mostly serious website for supporting the fraternity lifestyle, it stops now and then to poke fun at the finer points of the same lifestyle in the driest manner possible. When looking through comments on the blog entry though, I have found a startling trend amongst the posters: most do not fit in the category of fratdaddy, but rather seem more inclined to go about creating a global douchebagoshpere across the internet.


AutoSpeed.com Performance Car Magazine

This is the only legitimate, purposeful blog that I was able to buck up and review. The only reason I am stooping to such a level is my intense obsession with cars, ever since the day I started doodling them with crayons and markers up until the day I stopped drawing guns on all of the cars I designed (that was yesterday). This can be a very dry read sometimes, but I have learned more about specific systems in automobiles today here than anywhere else on the internet. As a bonus, if I ever am having trouble sleeping, I can cuddle up with a blanket and an entry or three from Autospeed and I’ll be out like an improvised L.E.D. brake light in no time. Truly, this is an amazing blog, which is rightfully titled an online magazine because of the great editing and writing that goes into each post.


I Hate Horses.

The least legitimate of all the blogs I chose to review, I Hate Horses thrives on being the blog that hates horses the most in the entire world and more than anything else in the entire world. Some blog posts repeat trite, to-the-point phrases like “I hate horses” or “I love glue” hundreds upon hundreds of times. Other entries support horse-haters worldwide, nominating horse-haters of the week or notable historical figures in horse-hating. Of course there is also the occasional rant, focused on a horse’s dumb shoes or their tendency to defecate without discretion and even on their own bodies. Overall, I Hate Horses is a humorous blog that sometimes makes you wonder if the author is going a little too far or not. I would also recommend this blog to any real horse-hater because it undeniably provides vast amounts of information on how to improves one self’s horse-hating abilities.

My Blog and the Blogosphere

For this blog, I have written rather freely about things that interest me. Like everyone else, I don’t like to write about things that I don’t like. Although there is no general category that one could place my varied blog posts into, I think that they all are characterized by some specific traits that connect them all together.

First, all of my blog entries reveal part of my own character: a mostly bitter, sarcastic, horrible person who can never be trusted in anything he says. Similarly, my blog posts also all show some type of ambition. Whether it is ambition to take a cross-country bus trip, get homework done during class, or find the true meaning behind childhood memories, ambition is always a common theme. It is not a coincidence that ambition and a bitter, sarcastic outlook on life are paired together as common themes throughout my blog. The two often mingle because of the stresses that ambition puts on one’s life and the life of those around him. This relationship is similar to the relation between this blog and the blogosphere.

While my blog is an absolutely meaningless piece of rant-inspired journalism, similar to the overwhelming majority of blogs encountered in the blogosphere, it provides a link from one place on the internet to another. This means that if some poor, demented soul is searching for an appeal to Canadian radio legislature, they might find my blog as a, albeit mostly useless, starting point for their research. That is the true purpose for my blog and the real reason that I strive to create meaningful input for the blogosphere as a community: the hope that someone will one day be helped by my thoughts and concerns about life in the world today. And the children… I do it for the children too.

I think the most important thing that the blogosphere can take from my blog is the acknowledgment that, like most blogs, mine is completely insignificant and useful in only restricted circumstances. Therein resides the power of the blogosphere. The blogosphere has the ability to connect insignificant blogs with worthless bloggers all across the world so that some meaningless pieces of information can be passed from one half-empty glass of knowledge to another, all in the hope that some minuscule amount of progress might be made through this futile struggle.

I plan to continue my blog for my entire life and the entirety of the world, and maybe even until the internet keels over and dies. This plan will be carried out by writing in my blog periodically until the day that I die, when I will pass the blog onto my first-born son so he can carry out the prestigious tradition of spreading the Coelho legacy all over the entire World Wide Web. I can only hope that when I am dead and gone that a starving, suffering child in a third world nation will log on to his computer and discover the true meaning of the blogosphere. I don’t see any way that this would help that poor soul, but that just ain’t what my blog do.

Summertime, summertime...

With the weather finally starting to warm up and the birds and squirrels coming out of there winter hiding, I can't help but write my latest blog post on it.

The spring air is getting even warmer, and that makes my even happier. Since I don't live in Hawaii, thanks to my dad, President Reagan, and some faulty Chinese zippers, I have to persist with life under one hundred degrees.

I never appreciated the beauty of the Midwest during this time of year. However, with my age and wisdom, I am starting to come to love the serene aesthetics of the green summer town a grew up in.

I can't help imagining the feeling of getting in that 1973 Italian sports car (that I don't have yet), taking the top down, and going for a drive down the open country roads with no plans or ideas.

I think I need to stop now before I run screaming out of this basement classroom and make a break for the beautiful Midwestern weather