Participating in the Gay Bloggies so far has been a great character-building exercise, but during all the self-reflection the contest has inspired, I have come to a troubling conclusion: I think I might be kind of superficial.
Some clues...
This fills me with desire and great sadness:
This excites me:
This makes me laugh:
I like this song so much that I sometimes sing it in public:
I most enjoy political discourse that involves attractive, closeted douchebags:
Did I mention this makes me laugh?
Anyway, hope is not lost. I have identified the problem, and I resolve that in 2008 I will work diligently to ensure that I grow into a better-informed person with more diverse interests.
"But what about !! omg blog !!?" you say. "Is it gonna get all serious and stuff?"
Well you don't need to worry about that. Even as I begin my journey of personal enlightenment, I will keep bringing you the dumbest, most trivial and hilarious things ever along with a generous share of celeb balls and butts. You can't change everything at once.
I love this one. Short, to the point and really funny. Made me laugh - your best blog in the competition for some time!
You make me laugh. And Ben "Beef Jerkey & Toiletries" also makes me laugh. With his cute little lisp and "they just love beef jerkey" in his aetheral totally non-gay voice.
Erm ... ?? what has this got to do with New Year Resolutions ?? Even I (a techno idiot) could link other people's material onto a blog to fill out my page .. not impressed ...
I don't like to be negative, but it has been bugging me for a while now that you made it this far. All you do is link things done by other people over and over again. There is nothing creative about it and I'd be surprised if it took you longer than 10 minutes. Sorry, but thumbs very down.
Yawn!!!
There's more to an interesting blog than posting embedded videos and saying "I like this." If this is the character that's been built so far by the gay bloggies, I think you might have quite a way to go.
I'm lost... this was about New Year resolutions? I'm glad you've learned you are superficial... Though, a look back at your blogs and all the candid shots of you told all of us that before you came around to the realization.
Again, you wasted our time. You didn't write anything of worth. You just used other peoples work, didn't give them any credit, threw in a few junior high quality statements and called it your post. I'll be glad to see you eliminated.
Home stretch Frank....almost in the winners circle.Just so glad you knocked out a certain horse(back half of anyway)outta the race.
Looking forward to another great year of OMG.
ps. Next post mention how insanely cute Toby is....a. it's true b. a lil sucking up never hurts.
I thought the point of being a blogger was to, you know, write/create your own material? What is this???
There's just something very impersonal about these last few posts....I loved the controversial cat-spinning, but after that, I just feel like something's been missing. I wish I saw more "you" in your posts, I guess. Maybe I just look for something in this form of writing that your fans don't.
Yeah, I'm not really sure what this had to do with New Years Resolutions either but I did enjoy the video of not gay Republican Ben. And I giggled when he says package...and unit.
I think he is trying to say something to us...
I have reading your blog for about a year now and I have enjoyed every day of it. Keep entertaining me please!!!!
Voted for you once again! Good luck....you deserve to win!
OMG Boring Comments.........To the people complaining about Franks blog....YOU ARE BORING!! Frank gets to the point, be it HOT, FUNNY, STUPID, STRANGE, CUTE....etc. God! Who wants to spend a million hours reading someones long ass "witty" "ironic" "intelligent" spell checked grammar corrected full of hot air blog posts. I don't, I've got shit to do. THUMBS UP Frank for keeping it simple and to the point. Please keep providing us with the laugh inducing, conversation inspiring, crotch warming blog posts.
FRANK! So close I can taste the virtual jizz from those free porn memberships.
I think the purpose of a weblog is to post what you want! Frank brings us tons of great content from the web and all we have to do is type in www.omgblog.com (or www.gaybloggies.com) and it's all laid out for us.
I learn more about Frank's personality and interests in the videos, photos, and articles about politics, gays, and cats than I would in a daily self-indulgent 1500 word essay (accompanied by yet more photos of the self-indulgent blogger) - plus I get to follow his links to learn more about sites that I wouldn't have seen if it weren't for his posts. Frank for the win!
I keep voting for you. LOVE your blog.
OMG! Your title should have been...
"OMG! I Could Do Better!"
But you didn't, Frank. You didn't.
Thumbs down.
Totally, totally correct, you guys who say they don't want to listen to some self-indulgent blogger going on and on about how wonderful their lives are. Frank is always straight to the point and doesn't bore us to death with 5000 words about how marvellous he is and why he should be voted Queen of the May (or whatever). His remaining competitors are both guilty of self-indulgent twaddle and they bore me to death. Frank to win!
People you just didn't read this properly: it has everything to go with NEw Years resolutions!! READ IT AGAIN!!
GO FRANK!!!!!!!!!!!! MWah
!!OMG!! Great blog entry!
What I love about your entries are that they make me smile/giggle/drool, they make me wanna share the link with friends and and they make me wanna come back for more.
Good luck!
*yawn*
What does all this have to do with being an ill-informed person with few interests? I thought it was fairly diverse, scatterbrained even, but still not very informed. That's why I'm not at all a fan of these "I liked this" blogs. It's like a re-post. Yes, we all like to look at cute puppies and boys on YouTube and giggle **sometimes** but it shouldn't consume your day. Inform yourself with things that interest you. That's why news articles have headlines to draw you in. Go to The Guardian or load up on Google Desktop widgets (or Apple gadgets). But most importantly, spend some time offline for cryin' out loud. Don't think "entertaining," think interesting and seek out those things that interest you.
The dog picture made me smile. However this entry didnt say anything about how you are superficial.
I did it! Down for 2. Up for you! Go all the way Frank! I'm pullin' for ya!!!!
It is a little bit boring - you need to do more than copy photos and say this you like and this you dont
FLOWERgurl281 you make a really interesti..ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Lazy "blogging". Reposting a bunch of stuff from around the web without any real personal commentary on them and then practically as an after thought tossing off something about the topic is just lazy lazy lazy. At this point in this competition I expect something more interesting, more creative. I expect something from the mind of the person the blog is supposed to from other than "Hey here's a bunch of other people's crap that's cool looking and funny".
Proudly nerdy...you make a really interestin.....ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz
Always witty and too the point :)
I think your resolution should be to continue being as superficial as you already are - you've got it down to a science, and why mess with perfection? We love you just as you are........
Ignore the bitches...OMG blog rules!!! Thumbs up every day...
Love your blog!! Hope you win!! I vote for you (and against the competitors) every round. Keep up the great work! OMG blog is the best!!
what a bunch or baboons omg blog have... so cheap, they dont even know what is there to appreciate... lol scums
I am no rabid fan of any gay bloggies but I hope Fausto wins. Please stop blogging. You definitely can't write something for intelligent people.
You know I love ya' -- And I know I love porn. So win, dammit.
You better win! Good luck!
I love you frank!
That Iowa boi is cute. He should enlist.
The whole support the troops thing is phony. If he really wanted to help, he could sign up and go to Babylon and run over an ied.
OMG Blog is the best place for funny video clips and hot pics of male celebs. I check it out daily for the humor and the hotness. Keep up the great work!
Are you SURE this guy is still supposed to be in this competition?? B.O.R.I.N.G
Are you SURE this guy is still supposed to be in this competition?? B.O.R.I.N.G
Frank's blog is funny, his Bloggie posts have been not.
He's lucky that his fan base is so rabid...at least in the sense of him winning this thing.
OMGblog? More like OWN-MGblog. 'Cause you own!!!
Original content in a blog would be nice....
It takes a lot of self-discipline to keep something like this going...
Great job!!!
you sound negative. Don't sell yourself short ! 2008 will be great !
There are some who would choose to read a blog entry all about the author, and then there are those of us who want a brief respite from the humdrum. Those of us in the latter category read OMG. A museum exhibit can be wonderfully edited without a single painting by the curator, and a blog can be wonderfully entertaining without droning on about the author's life. For those of us who know what Frank's blog is all about, we support and appreciate it. Keep up the good work, Frank.
That being said, I think we should be evaluating these entries based on how good they are in comparison to the usual fare offered up by the authors. I certainly wouldn't be that thrilled if Frank wrote about his day (though I do think he's an interesting guy), but I wouldn't be that thrilled if the two remaining competitors wrote entries based on awesome stuff they found on the interwebs. If a competitor did that and subsequently won, it would not truly be a win for their blog, it would be a win for something with their blog's name on it that happened to succeed for a few weeks.
uh, what does this have to do with the topic? i don't get it. and it was boring. sorry.