Short Bus Special

So, I might as well apologize now because I'm the equivalent of a neurotic amoeba. Neurotic in that I'm more fiesty than normal, and amoeba in that I think only one brain cell is functioning. Hopefully the Full Throttle I just shot gunned will get things going a little better.

On today's agenda is Midvale School For the Gifted Alumni Association. If you're as confused by the title as I am, then we're in the same boat. No fucking clue. I may be wrong, but isn't from the Far Side?

Anyway, the fist thing I noticed when I opened the site is that the blogger desciption is slightly cut off. That's pretty to fix-just make the sidebar about 5px bigger than it is now. I'm a bit of a minimalist when it comes to blogland (and everything. Seriously, I only have three things on my huge "L" shaped desk, and I think that's clutter.), so I'm not really a huge fan of having double-sidebars. One one side are the links, the other side the previous posts and archives. It does make things easier to "access" though and it makes things more compact, so I totally understand why she's doing it, but it seems a bit squished. Maybe make the actual blog space (I'm not sure what it's called in your template. Sometimes it's blog box, sometimes you just putz around and magically figure it out), a little wider so that it doesn't look so squished in Firefox, and so the entire right sidebar doesn't appear at the bottom of the page in Internet Explorer. Last suggestion is perhaps putting a drop down menu for the archives. If you're interested, it's easy, and can be found here

Outside of that the template is pretty simple and easy on the eyes: white text box, black text, hyperlinks that match the background pink color, and lots-o-buttons. The header is very collegiate, and the "Pushing on the Pull Door" is hilarious. Maybe it's just me.

Content wise, she's got a lot going on, and by a lot I mean links everywhere. The first post deals with the hiatus of Sleater-Kinney (if you don't know who they are, then that's just kind of sad). She really says nothing about it, rather she just links to the content. Not the most forthcoming, but it's efficient in the "Why regurgitate it, when I can just link it" sense. Besides, she put a song up and that just makes everything better.

She mostly teeters from politics (she's seemingly a liberal, so if you're a staunch right-wing, do not, I repeat do not! go there and get all pissy about it. It's lame.), to music; however, it's not toast-esque. She keeps things fairly personable. She has a few posts about herself and what's on her mind sprinkled throughout, and she even has a few memes. I particularly liked the How Will you be Defined in the Dictionary one. Here's mine:

pussy pop -- [adjective]: Like in nature to a train-riding hobo

Who knew train riding hobo's were so cool? I didn't!

Anyway, I like the blog for it's political insight and it's continual posting of music. I absolutely orgasm over the fact that she spells things correctly, uses correct grammar (which I'm well aware I don't, but it doesn't mean I don't recognize it when I see it), and even sites sources for all of her quotes.

My only recommendations are the above stated template issue fixes, and maybe ease up on the links. Maybe not ease up, but describe a bit more what they are and not just write "this" or "here" etc.

Also? The Clerks sequel is going to rock!

I give it mostly because the template is off in IE, otherwise I'd give it three cracked out stars.

Keep Rockin' on!