Travelling Slowly - Chile Blog Review
This is a review of Alex's blog, Travelling Slowly
Juggling new parental duties and cresting the proverbial Hill at age 33, or Mounting a Sermon, or something, Alex doesn't engender any sympathy when he writes "Time is more precious, less of it to waste." For Christ's sake he's blogging.
It's good that he is, though, and I'd encourage him to pick up the pace because he's got a twinge of insanity in his detailed, analytical, documentarian and action-taking approach to problems that I mostly prefer to lazily rant about. He actually sent YouTube videos to the city about dangerous Santiago traffic at an intersection. Not to mention the serious graphage he slapped up when discussing economic inequality in Chile. And if bibliographic thoroughness were a weapon against smog, then the lungs of Santiaguinos would have turned pink overnight after his scientific breakdown of Santiago's air quality (also check out these pictures featuring the yummy Chocolate Sky).
Well done.
Even better (although it remains a mystery if it was witting) Alex smartly bitch-slaps the childish and xenophobic current of thought that's on the lips of all-too-many Chileans, absurdly enough a type of xenophobia also directed against other Chileans - anything's possible in a parallel universe - but anyway it goes something like "if you don't like it here, why don't you get out and leave us basking in the sunshine of unexamined self-loathing" - so Alex, in a gesture epitomizing politeness, expresses a willingness to criticize his own country yet just can't help coming to the conclusion that Britain ain't half as bad. Frickin' hilarious. I'll paraphrase: Thatcher was a bitch but at least she didn't insert live rats into the vaginas of political prisoners.
On that note, I open up the forum for you to insert your own live rats, er, reviews of Alex's fantastic blog in the comments below. Then go write some other Chile blog reviews.
Juggling new parental duties and cresting the proverbial Hill at age 33, or Mounting a Sermon, or something, Alex doesn't engender any sympathy when he writes "Time is more precious, less of it to waste." For Christ's sake he's blogging.
It's good that he is, though, and I'd encourage him to pick up the pace because he's got a twinge of insanity in his detailed, analytical, documentarian and action-taking approach to problems that I mostly prefer to lazily rant about. He actually sent YouTube videos to the city about dangerous Santiago traffic at an intersection. Not to mention the serious graphage he slapped up when discussing economic inequality in Chile. And if bibliographic thoroughness were a weapon against smog, then the lungs of Santiaguinos would have turned pink overnight after his scientific breakdown of Santiago's air quality (also check out these pictures featuring the yummy Chocolate Sky).
Well done.
Even better (although it remains a mystery if it was witting) Alex smartly bitch-slaps the childish and xenophobic current of thought that's on the lips of all-too-many Chileans, absurdly enough a type of xenophobia also directed against other Chileans - anything's possible in a parallel universe - but anyway it goes something like "if you don't like it here, why don't you get out and leave us basking in the sunshine of unexamined self-loathing" - so Alex, in a gesture epitomizing politeness, expresses a willingness to criticize his own country yet just can't help coming to the conclusion that Britain ain't half as bad. Frickin' hilarious. I'll paraphrase: Thatcher was a bitch but at least she didn't insert live rats into the vaginas of political prisoners.
On that note, I open up the forum for you to insert your own live rats, er, reviews of Alex's fantastic blog in the comments below. Then go write some other Chile blog reviews.
posted by Chileno @ 12:14 PM
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The first post about a baby turned me off. I have nothing against daddy/mommy blogs but, for the most part, I do not care to read them. When I saw that he had only updated 5 times in 2007, I figured,not much more to see here, moving on.
That's why I provided the deep links.
I think "Look what we're breathing" and his flickr photos alone make the blog worth reading. Just because he has a post about his kid (which I'm sure is a very important topic to the people most important to him) doesn't mean the whole blog is worthless.
I give it a thumbs up!
Thanks to Will for the review and to mamacita chilena and joel for your comments on my blog. MC, I'm not going to compete with people who have time to blog every day, or every week, or even every month. It's a blog, not a job, and one of the things I like about blogging is that I can do it how, when, and about whatever I like.
Kyle's review seems inconsistent with what she's said in the past. As I recall she expressed a strong liking for "A Chile Tale" which lays on the mommy/daddy stuff thick. Her own blog is quite prolific but probably about as full of solid "about Chile" content as Alex's blog, despite the fact that Alex has only posted 5 times in the past 10 months. As I said before, though, Alex really needs to pick up the pace. Dealing with that single flaw would probably make him the best (English language) blogger in Chile.
High praise indeed; I'm being incited to blog more often... ;-) Will see what I can do. Thanks.
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