Hey people,

So, I've been doing this "blogging" thing for a while kind of in a vacuum. I've never really looked around to see what other people in the "blogging community" write about or even how they construct their journals. So yesterday I thought I would check out the scene, and people, it's not pretty.

The main problem with online journals is that they're so frigging boring. There's really hardly anything worth reading. Yesterday I sampled about 100 journals and 95 of them were literally about NOTHING. I mean, I don't actually think anything I write about is interesting, but all these twenty-something housewives and tech-nerds need to follow my lead and spice their stories up with a little poop humor.

But forget for a minute that everyone's journals are boring. Far more annoying is the fact that all these boring people describe themselves as "crazy." I mean, literally half of the journal descriptions go like this - "the crazy ramblings of a crazy 21 year old crazy college girl's crazy life." Now, this sounds like it's going to be good, full of voyeuristic fun and definitely some sex, right? WRONG, unless the new definition of "crazy" is having two margaritas and singing karaoke in front of your mortified girlfriends, then staying up until 2:30 in your dorm room talking about Tori Amos. Not crazy. Ted Kaczinski was crazy. Charlie Manson was crazy. "27 year old crazy single guy's crazy thoughts on dating"? Not crazy. The more I read, the more I became convinced that there should be online legislation passed stating that unless you've killed someone you shouldn't be allowed to label yourself, or your journal, as "crazy."

Which brings me to my ultimate problem. There simply aren't enough really really really attractive people writing very graphically but also very well about being lonely, having lots of sex and essentially airing all their dirty laundry. I mean, isn't that the whole point of reading someone's diary? You want the dirt...or at least a good poopie joke now and then.

I don't know, but then again, I'm really crazy.