Having your own customized blog is great. You are essentially writing a journal that’s not really for yourself but for other people.

For example, I knew exactly who subscribed to my Xanga digest. Ahh the precious subscription digest. Every morning people would open that email up and read the latest dirt from their friends, comment about it give them eProps to show them how much their life rocked (or in some cases sucked). It was great when you had a list of friends longer than your blog itself. It’d extend down two or three screens and that part of your site would shout to the world, “DANG LOOK HOW COOL I AM! I GOT A POSSE!”

Well this is how cool I am:

Yup, I have 1 friend so far. Seriously? I have parenthesize the puralization of ‘Friends’? How sad is that.

Well what about Mr. Mathew Kiang (dot com)? Well he’s straight up lying. Sir, that is ONE friend, don’t put that ’s’ at the end to make you feel like you’ve got more homie.