May 24, 2007
Nanashi-Inc.net
I had a moment of panic after I posted my first Tueday Teaser a few weeks ago. It suddenly occurred to me that I’d offered to do linky-love reviews of blogs that I didn’t have an option of selecting. I had visions of trying to come up with something good to say about a really bad blog. What I wasn’t factoring in, just for that moment, was that stupid and unimaginative people rarely to do puzzles. When they bother to do them, they tend not to do them well. My first two winners prove the point, as both have blogs that are a pleasure to visit and a joy to review.
Lady Joana’s blog, Nanashi-Inc.net is an imaginative and eclectic collection of random ramblings and creative input. I’ve spent a little time there over the last few days and I’ve gotten to know a thing or two. The first thing I learned is that here is such a thing as hatelisting. Am I the only one who had never heard of this? Having read Joana’s reasons for starting a hatelist, I have to say it’s the logical outcome of some unpleasant experiences. I’m not a fan of anime, being old and too dense to understand the attraction. Nevertheless, I can’t imagine thinking that my own lack of appreciation for an artform makes me superior to anyone else (or should be a reason for judging their character.) Such narrowmidedness deserves to poked and prodded, so listing haters and bashers makes sense in my book.
While Joana’s love of anime is upfront and very evident on her blog, it’s only a small part of her contribution to the blogging world. She’ll be graduating from college soon and moving on to other pursuits, but I hope being outside of the academic bubble doesn’t rob her of the time to keep expressing herself creatively. Her blog is part of her larger website, and you really need to expolore it a bit and get to know her. Make sure you visit her Pen and Pencil page and acquaint yourself with her fiction and artwork. The gal’s a budding genius, I tell ya! She’s strongly opinionated too, and her rants had me alternately laughing out loud and nodding my head silently in agreement.
I have almost nothing in common with Joanna. Her bio and comprehensive “about me” indicate that we share brunette hair color and a few bad habits, but, really we’re world’s apart in our interests and passtimes. Yet, through the magic of the blogosphere, we’ve stumbled across each other and I’ve found a young woman I admire whose site I’ll be visiting time and again. The entire website is well-designed, attractive and easy to navigate. She’s installed an option that allows her visitors to select the skin on display while they’re viewing. I don’t know if she thought of that herself, but isn’t it an amazingly thoughful thing to do? Set aside an hour or so and go see for yourself. I guarantee, there’s something to engage and interest everyone who makes a little time to get to know my new friend Joana.
[tags]anime, blogs, personalitites[/tags]
Posted by skeet @ 11:24 pm • Blogs
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May 25th, 2007 at 9:12 am, Whim Says:
She sounds pretty cool, I’ll check her out.
May 25th, 2007 at 6:55 pm, Joana Says:
I’m glad you found both my blog and my personal site entertaining. Truth be told I wanted to do something like what you’ve done but for the exact same fears you expressed, I refrained. If I got a really piss-poor site to review I doubt I could do a good job of sugar coating my words. And a biting review would hardly be “prize worthy”.
Despite our differences I found your blog to be entertaining and humorous as well!
It’s why I’m adding you to my blogroll. I’m glad that I became a part of PPP because through it I’ve found some great bloggers whose blogs I don’t mind visiting on a regular basis. In fact I enjoy visiting! ^_^
Thank you for the lovely and very flattering review
It definately made my day to read this.