nektros - Cynicism in a Hot Dish

I enjoy watching new blogs die a slow, agonising death.

Since joining the so-and-so times interesting yet rarely often engaging enough to warrant a sphere branding-osphere two years ago, I have seen a multitude of very good and very bad blogs crash and burn in a manner comparable to throwing a match onto a gasoline-soaked tyre swing harbouring a newborn puppy and fastened to a branch overhanging a radioactive-powered shark-infested whirlpool.

Marking our second weekly descent into five inspiring snippets of site designs impressive by and large, we’ll be focusing on interesting usage of colour and imagery, and a few examples of the spurning of conventional layout dimensions applicable to a personally-held sentiment of “Aye, ye sootheth my frickin’ return sweep synapses”.

There is something meticulously discomfiting about writing in public. More so, there is something distractingly meta about writing in public in preparation for an online post, to the extent that even strategically placed nonsensical adjectives fail to disguise the fact that for the most part, public doodling is a dying cum extinct form of word whipper-uppering.

P1: One day I want to be psychic.

P2: What’s so important about this future date that you’ve got to bypass all the clairvoyant fun today?

P1: Whenever, then. Reading people’s minds! No-one would screw with me again.

P2: That was almost mature for your age demographic.

Motivational quote connoisseurs take note: if any of the following overused, ‘upbeat’ words or phrases make it into that inspiring tidbit forming in your head, shut your mouth and reset your brain.