Martinis are bad.

Especially Lychee flavored martinis that do, in fact, taste like a lychee.

Yes, I've had more than my fair share of those. Yes, I'm going to hate myself in the morning. Yes, I'm going to repeat the phrase "You fucking idiot!" over-and-over again when I get my credit card bill and note how much money copious amounts of delicious martinis cost in a city that isn't the ghetto fabulous epicenter of it all, which is something sort of strange because usually when I get this hammered in a new place I'm on business. Vive la corporate card!

Anyway, we--and by we I mean the lovely, awesome, amazing, and sexy as all fuck reviewers of this here blog--seem to be getting a bit of shit about the content factor of our reviews, which I think could use some clearing up. {or maybe it doesn't and I'm just tired of stumbling around the hotel room and I'm out of people to drunk dial}

{I think I speak for all of us when I say} I am not in the business of telling someone their blog is absolute shit simply because their topic of choice isn't something I, personally, am interested in. I'm not going to go on these tirades and bitch and moan, and rant my little heart away over the topics people choose to write about. It's their space on the internet, they can do whatever the fuck they want with it.

In my own opinion, I think it's a shitty thing to focus on, and the topic and content of a blog is something fairly close to the person doing the writing. People write things for a reason--whatever far fetched unfathomable reason that may in fact be--and I highly doubt it's my place, or anyone else's place for that matter, to put that reason under attack simply because I don't get it, or don't like it, or don't agree, and simply because they opted to submit their blog for a review.

A submission isn't tacit consent for us to rage war and be total douchebags for the sake of it, and it certainly isn't consent to be put under a microscope and analyzed to the point of invading your privacy as well as affecting loved ones, simply because we just didn't like what we read and now have a raging war between us and the author of the reviewed blog. If you don't think it can happen, then you obviously haven't seen or read the far more popular and ever so friendly review site .

Yes, content is taken into consideration, but I don't think it's our place to make that the end-all be-all of a blog review. We aren't here to validate your existence in the blog-o-sphere, and we certainly aren't here to scrutinize your posts with all the vigor of an AP English teacher.

We will speak to writing style, and have. We also will point out when you fuck up this mighty language called English. We will certainly point out when the aesthetic of your blog detracts from the writing, or makes it impossible to read the writing.


If you think we're too nice, well? Sorry. If you really want us to rip your blog apart and comment on every facet of it then let us know. As far I see it from my drunken 34th floor hotel room, I think people would prefer not to have the heartbeat of their writings and musings placed in the hands of six people who don't know them but for what little you can gleen from their lovely spot on the web.

This is supposed to be fun.

Or am I totally offbase, and completely wrong in my thinking?