Let's Go "Next Blog"-ging

Start with the tune of "Space Truckin'" in your head, and you'll have a nice musical background going. Then, I'll hit the NEXT BLOG button to see where I'll go. The sense of adventure is overwhelming. Now I know how Magellan and John Glenn must have felt.

My first English-speaking stop was Free Hott Girls, proclaiming "if you come to this blog you will see hundreds of free girls that are ready for you to just look at them in their bikinis." What better reason to blog? Girls in bikinis.

Next up, the ladies way. Lead story: Bald-headed Britney gets tattooed, just above an article about the French Nazi-era collaborator Papon dying. Otherwise, it looks like a resting space for articles about coping and romance. By the way, the Nazi's romantic period is greatly under-appreciated.

Then, I found beeleoge. He posts YouTube videos of women dancing. At the bottom of the page was the answer to the Number of ways of factoring n with all factors >1. It made the scroll-bar thing really tiny.

Up pops the Artful Blogger. He posted some photos of sculpture made with forks and some hedge art. Interesting.

Ooops. It's the Catholic Book Review. I wonder what they thought of The Bible?

Now, it's Dinosaurs. Most recent post: 3,000,000 BC.

Here's The Foolish Girl, who promises that she is "rude, vulgar and will probably offend you." She loves The Toadies, Leonardo DeCaprio and Damien Rice. She's was right. She is offending me.

OURTALK is a blog by Bushy, who seems to get out a lot. It's mostly reviews of shows he's seen or bands he's heard.

Then I came up on one of those family blogs, which is entirely uninteresting unless you're a displaced member of their immediate family who cares about what color Junior's crap was that day or how many times the dog pissed in the laundry room. Otherwise, it's really cool.

Uh-oh, it's The Political War Zone. The first thing I see on the page is a big "ad" for some place called Cloud 9, that promises to transform unique and memorable experiences into unforgettable gifts. Hey, back off the war talk, OK buddy. I'm trying to make a keychain out of that hooker I was with last night.

I needed a place for Jokes, fun and laughs, so it's a good thing I found e-LauGhs. Even the title is funny. It's full of dopey jokes and lists. It's a great place to start one of those chain-forwarded-a-thousand-times e-mails. Fwd:>>Fwd:>>Fwd:>>Fwd:>>Fwd:>>Who Doesn't Think This is Funny?

In Our House is another of those family-oriented deals, but this one has more general interest stuff, and each post comes with a handy click box for you to order Harry Potter on Amazon. Thanks, I was wondering how I was gonna get one. Wowie.

I wondered what DangerDemocrat meant. Was there a comma missing or an exclamation point? It wasn't until I saw him refer to the "Luddites in the White House" that I knew what it meant.
The Luddites were a paramilitary group, trying to enforce a production monopoly for their own financial gain through sabotage and the resultant intimidation. They also opposed the free market and technological progress. There ya go. Word for the day: Luddites.

One blog said that it was designed to foster discussion that will help Christians become transformed into the image of Christ and sharing that transformative process with others. Wow - is that video on YouTube?

Machines are for Sissies, or so says K-Smash, on a blog that is a daily post of his workout routine. OK, that's enough.

Try as I might, I couldn't randomly stumble across anything worth reading. Sorry folks. The NEXT BLOG button is infested sometimes. I found myself switched to Jokes-n-Junk, a drug advertisement and something called The Bestest Blog in the World, which features a RANDOM BLOG button that gets you locked in Internet Hell. Not bestest blog.

What this little exercise did was to make me appreciate the people on the sidebar under Blogger Buddies - and even the ones that aren't there that I stalk ... er ... read.

There are estimates that say there are 50 million blogs. To know and read any at all that are of high quality and have interesting content is an achievement in itself. Congratulations to you for being interesting and fun to read.

Along the way, I found a neat place to get free Blogger templates, and a link to the original film of the Hindenburg crash, so it wasn't a total loss.

And now... Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Paice, Ian Gillian, Jon Lord and Roger Glover. 1973. Back when you had to use musical instruments to make these kinds of sounds. I wouldn't blame you if you bailed on it: