SpikeTheLobsterThe Word Philes 2
February 23rd 2009 19:39
The Word Philes
This week's entry in The Word Philes is a blog. Let me give you a bit of background before I point you to it, though.
I don't keep track of a lot of blogs. There are folks out there who do, who follow dozens of them or at least subscribe to the RSS feeds of several that the masses consider important. Personally, I prefer my daily run through a random selection of sites on LinkReferral to that: most of the 'important' blogs bore the crap out of me, are completely uninteresting or are just trying so hard to be trendy that they make my teeth stand on edge. It's like the whole somethingawful.com thing - back around 2000, it was darned funny. Then absolutely everyone started saying "teh best {whatever} EVAR!!11!!!!!1!!" and, within the short space of a few months, it ceased to amuse me at all.
Back around that time, I had a personal blog and kept a blogroll of maybe eight or ten sites. These days it's down to one or two, if any. However, I do subscribe to a couple here on Orble (by email) and this one by RSS. That's it - three blogs total for the moment. I'm sure that number will grow over time!
So anyway, back to this week's Phile. The site I would like to point you to is called Sex, Lies and Dating in the City. It has occasional mature content since the author, SINgleGIRL, is (in her own words) "a 38 yr old single girl in NYC who dates a lot".
When I first visited, I had a terrible fear that, given the name's play on the TV series and film titles, this would be one of those horrible blogs that tries to be clever and cool, pontificating like the aforementioned series but failing dismally. In fact, it's wonderful. SINgleGIRL writes openly and honestly, updates regularly and certainly doesn't beat around the bush. She writes conversationally (and well), says what she thinks, discusses her views with her visitors and manages to keep the whole thing really interesting: though I hate the expression, she is true to herself and her subject.
It's a real 'inside view' of the modern dating scene, written by someone who's smart, honest, funny and friendly.
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