Linkblog

Wow, that is a strange website too. After I dared to give worthy design tips in my last post here is another strange concept. Actually it is not the design but the the page concept. I did not inspect it properly (I don’t have that much that expertise in web design, so simply look for yourself) but as I figured out this web presence mainly consists of the start page. If so it is the first blog I found that uses just the link and blogroll section in the sidebar to be a kind of a link collection.

As one could deduce from the website’s name this website is collecting links about gay fiction (M/M). So if you are interested in some fiction or stories about gay relationships you may find a starting point here.

Obviously the muse is green. At least that is the first impression when you open the website. I did experiment with a green on green layout on my link collection once, but soon I dropped the idea. And now I remember why I did so, even though I am not really suspicious of having any designing skills myself. Despite of the nice background pictures the first impression of this webpage is that you suddenly were thrown back to the monochrome screen tech of the eighties or your monitor suddenly lost its blue and red channel. I had a friend by the way whos TV lost the red channel and we enjoyed to watch Magnum in his black Ferrari. Well I think I got way of course now and more important than the visual impression is the content. At least if you are not working in an advertising agency. So let’s see what this post is about:

“For the first time since (I’m guessing) the early to mid 80s, I ran outside today” (Well maybe my previous guess on the monitor tech was not that bad, uh?). But Pia (the author) did not go to the next electronics store but restarted running in the outside now after previously only using her threadmill. And she found out that this is quite more exciting and exhausting than running at home. In addition on her first run she lacked some basics like proper running shoes, a sports watch and … water. The first two could be easily solved by going to the next sports store soon. But for the water she still has no idea. So being a couch potato myself it would be hard to help her out with a good idea, but as she explicitely asked, I will try to help her as good as I could:

1.) Target the run to the next supermarket and drop in during the run to get some water. (Don’t forget to take some money with you or make sure to be trained well enough to be faster than the person behind the counter)

2.) Keep running at home. (Make sure to have the water next to the machine before you start as the way to the kitchen is much longer than it seems when running on a threadmill)

3.) When in the sport shop (to buy the other two things) ask for help there. I am quite sure there are belts or other stuff which are made for taking water along.

“I’m Still Around” the author announces after being away for about seven weeks. And his absence from his blog has not been because a general lack of time, a new work but for health reasons. Actually he even fell into a coma and describes the strange and partly nightmarish experiences he made in this time. But now he is on the way to recover slowly and looks forward not only to write his blog but also to continue his stories. So the only luck in this bad experiences of the past weeks may lay in the fact that the author is a writer of horror stories.

I don’t exactly know whether it is dark fiction or comedy, when you awake and find yourself somewhere else. Somebody is sleeping next to you, whos tail brushed against your cheek, which caused you waking up. Somebody called Leona. And obviously Leona is not a cat or something of the kind, as when you examine yourself closer you find yourself naked and you know it was Leona who undressed you…
If that does not sound familiar to you and if that’s not the kind of experience you make every morning, I think i might be helpful to read the previous chapters to understand “Waiting for a Miracle – Chapter 19″. If you should not yet have a clue how the story might continue, you might also want to read the rest of the story. If you like erotic stories you probably want to read on, too…

Nicky is having a problem. He is trying to collect his online stories to provide them at one location. Unfortunally this data is spread widely and many of it has already got lost. Now as everybody knows data actually never gets lost, you simply can’t find or access it anymore. Some is stored at services which either have died or are denying him access because of TOS violations. But this actually is not his fault as especially in the Internet services gome and go quicker than you can write a twitter message. And nobody is able to read all those TOS which actually have more content (measured in word count) than any blog will provide in a one year period. So Nicky should not bother about that but continue writing new stuff and publish it somewhere. It is just the good old “fire and forget” style of writing. And all stuff that is temporarily lost actually is living somewhere in the wild in the web and will fall back to him preferably when he least expects it.

As the month ended I want to present again those blogs I visited which interested or surprised me most when I read them. Remember that I just present the single recent blog post of each blog and I want to evaluate only those. So this ranking does not evaluate the whole blog but the single post that I found. As this blog is a little bit about presenting other blogs maybe you found some of the nominees in the list worth visiting. So, if you liked any of the blogs listed below you may cast a vote by clicking onto the chart. If you thing you favourite is missing, feel free to mention that in the comments:

Zuky
A Little Urbanity
Tools of Renewal
TRUTH ON THE MARKET

Actually, I found less time to continue my voyage through the blogs in February than in January. So as a result I naturally visited less blogs. And some of the things I wrote was not really let’s say interesting - though some blog articles made it not too easy to write something substancial in response. So here is the collection of my articles which I think were the best of February. If you like to give a feedback which one(s) you liked best, you can click onto the chart below to cast a vote, I would appreciate that. This list and vote are just upon my own articles with the next post I will submit the selection of the blogs I found recommendable:

Ramblin’ Prose
Patrick Eakes
Plead the First
A Little Urbanity
TRUTH ON THE MARKET

It’s “Five Star Friday” again. At least it is today in that blog and quite obviously this is a regularly event in which the author presents and recommends movies which have been worth to get his 5 stars ranking. For today’s candidate (which is “Kill Bill, Vol. 1″ - “Kill Bill, Vol. 2″ is only worth 4 stars) the author reflects the opportunities of different ways an author could tell a story. It’s not sursprising that he comes to the conclusion that it are the visuals which make the great difference especially compared with printed works. He presents us Quentin Tarentino as a genius a director of “cinematic brilliance” who makes his films close at the borders of “classic screen conventions” and who from time to time overdoes this game and then ends up in disaster. But that has not been the case with “Kill Bill”. Now I have to admit that I did never like “Kill Bill” too much and thought it more an esthetical hommage to useless violence without any reasonable story. But maybe I could accept the conclusion of the author to some degree: “Style over substance? Yeah, that’s Kill Bill, Vol. 1, but ooooohhhhhhhh what style.”