Meet the bloggers.Jason Adams >> Age: 29 Locations: New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Blog: mynewplaidpants.blogspot.com Year launched: 2005 Visitors per month: 25,000-35,000 Why you started: I used to annoy my friends by e-mailing them every random story that amused me. Then I came to the delightful realization that now, thanks to modern technology, I could annoy the world. Purpose of blog: I seem to have found a small niche where I can mix one part gay, two parts film nerd, and 10 parts horror-loving gore hound into a delicious stew that overflows with pictures of beefcakey guys bumping up against, say, ramblings about slasher films. I'm at my happiest where the twain meets, like in the form of horror director and resident crush Eli Roth. Year you quit your day lob: That will be the day, won't it? Biggest advertiser: Ads really irritate my site's feng shui Feng shui Traditional Chinese method of arranging the human and social world in auspicious alignment with the forces of the cosmos, including qi and yin-yang. It was devised during the Han dynasty (206 BC–AD 220). . We're seeing a psychoanalyst about this. Strangest posting: Oh, where to begin? My blog is named after a pair of pants In mathematics, a pair of pants is a simple two-dimensional surface resembling a pair of pants. In hyperbolic geometry, pairs of pants are sewn together, leg to leg, or leg to waist, to create Riemann surfaces of arbitrary genus. . I like to think of the whole thing as a living, breathing non sequitur non sequitur (nahn sek [as in heck]-kwit-her) n. Latin for "it does not follow." The term usually means that a conclusion does not logically follow from the facts or law, stated: "That's a non sequitur." . Hottest link: I hate to give up this deeply guarded secret, but posting a link to Anne Hathaway Noun 1. Anne Hathaway - wife of William Shakespeare (1556-1623) Hathaway wearing a see-through top will drive your visits through the roof. Also works: Gerard Butler's abs. Also also works: Jake Gyllenhaal in spandex. Three cons of blogging: First off, I don't make any money at it, and I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. that "respect" is a commodity I'm exactly earning in spades either. Secondly, the immediacy of posting can lead to embarrassing opinions you wish weren't out there forever, like momentarily finding Justin Timberlake attractive or wishing Jack Nicholson would die. And thirdly, there's still a "sitting in your parents' basement in pajamas pajamas Noun, pl US pyjamas pajamas npl (US) → pijama msg; piyama msg (LAM " connotation to describing oneself as a "blogger" that stings. So, just for the record: I don't have a basement. |
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