The Internet Is a Vampire: The Worst Blogs on the Web
 

The Internet is a vast wasteland of bullshit, some of it entertaining, some of it informative and most of it ignorable. But there are those blogs that once in awhile just come right out of the screen and punch you in the face with their terribleness. These are the websites that are so blatantly unnecessary in the Blogosphere that you wonder why the Web Police don't just shut the whole operation down and call it a day.

Below, our incomplete tribute to some of the most unnecessary blogs on the 'net.

 


Stuff On My Cat: I don't care if you think I'm a monster for saying this, but stop putting shit on your animals. Best case scenario, they're indifferent, worst case, they are pained and confused. Stop dressing up your dogs and cats and posting pictures about them on the Internet. Stop putting wigs on your cats. Unless it's something you've confirmed is objectively adorable by a third party, we do not want to stumble upon your consolation prize to never being able to have a child. It's creepy.

That being said, Cute Overload is still okay.

 



Mad Men, Mad Props
: Mad Men is an awesome show about corporate ad guys in the early 60s. I don't really care if every anachronistic detail isn't correct on the show, because unless it's something huge (like why The Decemberists played a song in the opening of the "Maiden Voyage" episode), it's not going to ruin my enjoyment of Don Draper being his sexy self.

But that's not the case for Mark Simonson. Simonson has gone through every episode of Mad Men, and picked out all the fonts that are used in the show that didn't exist in the 60s. Here is an example of his blog:

Then there is the Gill Sans (c. 1930) problem. Gill is used quite a lot in the series, mainly for Sterling Cooper Advertising’s logo and signage. Technically, this is not anachronistic. And the way the type is used—metal dimensional letters, generously spaced—looks right. The problem is that Gill was a British typeface not widely available or popular in the U.S. until the 1970s. It’s a decade ahead of its time in American type fashions.

Mark Simonson and his Asperger's are a total buzzkill.

 


Celebrity Twitters/MySpace Blogs: There is a reason most famous people have PR guys. It's because, left to their own devices, these hollow shells of actors and musicians and professional athletes would quickly show the world that they are one relatively meaningless talent away from riding on the short bus. So whoever first told Courtney Love to start her incoherent MySpace blog should be getting a medal of honor for helping out on slow news days. Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson's blog gets second place.

But some celebrities are hipper than average. Those famous people sign themselves up for Twitter accounts, which are good because they only let you type 150 words of text at a time, but bad because they can be updated constantly, like Jimmy Fallon is so fond of doing. The new Late Night host loves to use his Twitter, regardless of whether it's to talk about his Crock-Pots or just type out some Kris Kross lyrics. The second most egregious use of a Twitter account?

Diablo Cody planning to "live Twitter" the premiere of her show The United States of Tara when it premieres on Showtime. Because that's what you're reduced to a year after winning an Academy Award for Best Screenplay: Sitting at home and pressing "refresh" every minute.

 


ProAnorexia Livejournal Community: Listen, most writing on the Internet is juvenile. But that's because a lot of people who write on the Internet are juveniles themselves. And kids like to use their Livejournals or Xangas or what have you to talk about how much they hate mom, or how much they love Lincoln Park. And that's fine; that's one (somewhat annoying) facet of an endless amount of Internet garbage. But those blogs are not what this category is about since a) It would be impossible to judge one shitty emo blog from the next, and b) it's boring and stupid, but teenagers blogs aren't really "unnecessary" because they don't pretend to serve a purpose besides say, putting those weird feelings about your French teacher out somewhere where somebody might listen. What is unnecessary, though, are Livejournal communities that promote and encourage eating disorders. WTF? Unnecessary and harmful.

 


ZackTaylor.ca: As many personal diary blogs as there are out there, there are even more celebrity gossip blogs, so it's a tricky task to point a finger at any particular one and declare it the worst. Nevertheless, we choose Zack Taylor, who didn't even try to make his site any different from the miserable, miserable Perez Hilton's (except for the background). More egregiously, Taylor is a blogroll whore and will spam anybody and everybody to share links. He also reports on E-list celebrities that no one has ever heard of and is a "celebrity blogger" from Canada. Seriously, Canada. Good comedy troupes and ice hockey up there, but Canucks aren't so much on the cutting edge of insider Tinseltown.

The latest "big scoop" from ZackTaylor.ca? "DEMI LOVATO AND ALEX DELEON BREAK UP!" Um, okay. Who now?

 


Beard Revue: No explanation necessary—just a blog about dudes with beards. Actually, on second thought, Beard Revue is going on my RSS feed.

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Comments (9)

No. 1 · Addicted to Addiction

You forgot one.

Posted: Jan 7, 2009 at 9:41 am · @Reply · [Flag?]
No. 2 · Karl Spensen

Those pro-anorexia ones are the saddest things ever. I came across one while looking for some perfectly harmless pornography and suddenly found myself in a world of low self-esteem and self destruction that made it nearly impossible for me to achieve erection.

Posted: Jan 7, 2009 at 12:25 pm · @Reply · [Flag?]
No. 3 · Spencer

You're right about ZackTaylor.ca and your timing couldnt be better. There's a story on popgoesthenews.com today about how he plagiarized a blog word for word!!

Posted: Jan 7, 2009 at 1:47 pm · @Reply · [Flag?]
No. 4 · Lisa

It's funny how you said that about the ZackTaylor.ca site when Jossip steals stories from him. I think Perez is worse!!!!!!

Posted: Jan 7, 2009 at 3:06 pm · @Reply · [Flag?]
No. 5 · Lisa

@Spencer:

I read that, but no where did that site mention how they stole stories such as Leah Miller getting married to Dallas Green from ZackTaylor.ca

Still bad pr is still pr
i love all the sites

Posted: Jan 7, 2009 at 3:08 pm · @Reply · [Flag?]
No. 6 · LipStick

this site sucks. I dont know if you realised that or not, but yup it sucks right hard.

Posted: Jan 7, 2009 at 3:49 pm · @Reply · [Flag?]
No. 7 · Spencer

@Lisa

I went and checked it out but I don't see any similarities…they both quote a source, which is entirely possible that they have their own sources. In fact, the popgoesthenews stuff on Leah Miller has more information and at least an attempt to see if the story is true. Zack actually STOLE the Candy thing and then when he got caught he re-posted the story after taking out the part he ripped off word-for-word AND he changed the time code, which is so sketchy. But i agree that all the sites are fun to read…it's just too bad Zack is trying so hard to be a Perez.

Posted: Jan 7, 2009 at 3:52 pm · @Reply · [Flag?]
No. 8 · Lisa

@Spencer:

both sites seem lame to me
so does jossip

Posted: Jan 7, 2009 at 4:42 pm · @Reply · [Flag?]
No. 9 · Hawkeye

Oh wow! A live Twitter!

Live Twitter!

Nope. Tried to be excited and interested. Didn't work.

Posted: Jan 7, 2009 at 7:52 pm · @Reply · [Flag?]
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