I started a new blog. It is called NewsLink Briefs. The name came about because I was looking at the newspaper and trying to figure out how I could use it to jump start my brain. There is a lot of information in a newspaper. Some of us kind of look down on them these days. We see it in its yellow bag at the end of the driveway and hope it will go away. It has lost its power over us. But it's not dead. My wife likes it because it has all those cartoons. Maybe cartoons will save newspapers in the end. Just as my poems will save my old blog Virginia Breeze. I have one poem about sending the boss off to an island where he is the main course in the evening meal for a bunch of cannibals. And people seem to love it. It is probably being recited at retirement parties all over the country. And hopefully a few bosses have gone home and cried after hearing it. Because they deserved it.
In any case I started a new blog and tried to incorporate everything I have learned in the last eight months of my blogging internship in it. I purchased a premium theme from Mr. Adii. Or maybe Adii is his first name. I don't know but it is appropriate that I do not know. Because there are things about his theme that are a mystery also. All of you fine young men who went to school and learned about computer languages and code think you are pretty smart. And maybe you are smart. But you are not really smart until you have learned to be polite and answer stupid questions as if it was God who was asking them.
Like Mr. Adii. So after awhile I left him alone and asked a friend to explore this new theme and hook some things up. So the blog is now looking pretty good. And it is much more focused than Virginia Breeze. It is focused like a fugging laser beam on the News Briefs that come out regularly in the newspaper. In this case the Richmond Times Dispatch. But that is not enough. Oh no.
Eight months of blogging has demonstrated to my chemically saturated brain that words are definitely not enough. You need pictures. And preferably pictures of something interesting. So I have added photos of beautiful women. But not from a sexual standpoint. There is enough of that everywhere on the web. It has practically gotten to the point where it is boring. At least for a 58 year old guy it is boring.
What interests many of us is Beauty. In whatever form and in whatever way we can get it. Beauty turns us on. So I am collecting photos of beautiful faces because women have beautiful eyes and lips. They have beautiful hair. And they have shades of red in their cheeks and neck that are fascinating.
So I started this blog and am attempting to write satirical or at least humorous posts about news and politics. It's all about creative content right? And then enjoy also beauty in its many forms. I am not sure whether I want to add photos of beautiful scenes to the photos of beautiful women. This is a process and we haven't reached that point yet.
But it's clear that the beautiful women tend to bring in the readers. Maybe they work better than StumbleUpon in that regard. And I am sure they are beautiful all over as some photographers on the web are willing to show us. But I am not going down that road because my wife, her father and the children read my blog.
And I don't really care about it anyway. Hopefully there are readers who feel the same way and will enjoy this particular combination of content.
We will see.
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