We're Walking, We're Walking

From time to time, say between 8 am and 5 pm, I like to surf through other people’s blogs and see if there’s anything worthwhile. You’d be surprised the number of gems that I’ve managed to turn up! Here’s a rundown of just a few diamonds in the rough that I’d like to share with you.

First, let’s all take a trip down blogger lane with theperfectpunk101. This characteristic pink and pink site with pink highlights showcases the very best of “punk” poetry (especially if you’re into pink):

sometimes i feel i just want to be wanted
like i thirst for the attention
but i don't even know why
then other times
i don't want to be bothered
it's not that i'm depressive
i think i'm a lot of fun

If it’s not the punctuation that gets you, it’s the way the lines meld together to touch you. The Smith's "Girlfriend in a Coma" has nothing on this site! She doesn't touch your heart, certainly. Nor, would I say, your mind. But there’s something there. It’s like perfectpunk (who, let's face it, is perfect and modest; two qualities every good punk should have) is trying to speak to me, directly to me. She’s just dialing with her angst.

Pink angst.

Now, moving through our tour, I came across another sapphire in the sea of blue funk: indians problems for white people

One post and one post only is necessary for this blog: “hi we have had to deal with dirty lazy indians who wont work my taxes pay for them to stay home. So tired of seeing the police afraid of these crazy people”

Clearly, marysue has all the integrity of Clarence Darrow, all the eloquence of a young Henry David Thoreau, and all the compassion of an energetic Martin Luther King, Jr. The next time I see a "dirty lazy indian" I certainly won't be afraid.

You shouldn't either.

Unless you're not white, in which case you'd best get to being dirty and lazy as soon as possible!

I'll save that lauravieirafotos. There are no words, but the pictures say it all!














Be annoyed. Be very annoyed.

Of course, after you've gone through your pink angst, your indian problems you probably want to relax! Well, if you live in London then bellyjustrelax is for you.

C'mon now, she has four years of experience!

Looking for an outsider’s view of the United States? Try One Hundred Years Of Solitude:

“BUT, I've been in Italy for a while and I've noticed that something bizarre happens when you step beyond the borders of the US (and its puppet-government in the UK): you (occasionally) get news that hasnt been filtered by goverment-backed scare mongering in media outlets. How many times must we hear on CNN that a carbomb killed 20-30 or more Iraqi workers in Baghdad while they waited to be picked up to go to work? And yet why is it never reported where it was they were working? Slave labour for the vile Halliburton or some other nefarious US corporation exploiting the disintegrating situation there? Attacks like this are always described and couched in the most neutral language possible, but I assure you these attacks are anything but neutrally motivated... but you'll never know otherwise. Big Brother just isnt a wretched TV show - it's evolving into a way of life in your country.”

Didn't we see this guy in a movie?



















And here I had doubts.

If you’re like me, and wondering who those 30% . . . sorry, 29% . . . sorry 28% still approving Bush's efforts are, let me refer you to: Macsmind - News, Conservative Commentary and Common Sense

“While not always agreeing on everything [George Bush] presents, one think I admire about him is that he does stand behind what he presents and believes passionately in what he is doing and believes it to be in the best interests of the country.

That's called "Character".”

Actually, character is the combination of qualities or features that distinguishes one person, group, or thing from another. "Believ[ing] passionately" in what you’re doing and that it’s “in the best interests” of everyone involved is called fanaticism. But since Mac told us that his blog was about common sense, then I suppose he's right. "These are the times that try men's souls."

Finally, but certainly not the least in our tour of bloggers, their blogs and blogging gems throughout the works, is Siolis: Vanguard:

“If you stumbled across this page, I’m sorry you’ve wasted your time. Ill just take my sheep and go…”

But if you’re here, and we’re here, isn’t it really our sheep? Our pink sheep?