You know what bothers me most about blogs? If you're looking for good deal The fact that when it comes right down to it, no one running a blog is producing anything new these days. Unless you count angsty poems made up on the spot or bad lyrics to crappy songs that will never get made, much of the blogging world just feeds off itself, throwing redundant crap out onto the internet and wasting everyone's time in the process.

This is the way all blogs work: Someone out there, somewhere, reads something on a site with real content (i.e. a newspaper), posts a link, then another blog copies it, and so on until you see the same link wherever you go. This is what passes off for content in the year 2005.

If you ask me, this is complete bullshit. You and I are both capable of creating real, original content (well, maybe me moreso than you). So why don't people do it? Whenever I see a blog with a link posted along with a short, meaningless comment that is unintelligent at best or stupid at worst, it just comes off as complete laziness.

But wait, you're saying: If I use my blog as a personal journal, recording my thoughts and feelings of the day, isn't that content? Come over here so I may brain thee. NO THAT IS NOT CONTENT. That is crap, and the only person who wants to read it is you. I almost said "you and your mom" there but even your mom wouldn't want to read the shit out there.

Someone once said "Content is king", and presumably whoever said that was not posting on a blog. But it's true: if you want to matter, you need to create something new, do something no one has seen before, not just be the first to post a hyperlink to real content. It's not impossible either. People -- believe it or not -- are doing it every day.

You know what content is? The Tony Mendez Show is content. Cockeyed.com is content. The Onion is content. X-Entertainment. Et Cetera. But what gets the cover of the NY Times? The motherfucking blogs.

I so can't wait for this fad to be over.