Day Three Hundred and Fifty-Three - All Things Arianna

In truth I suppose that I am a bit of an aging liberal hippie douche. As much as I hate to admit it...though honestly I think it's because I'm not really one for labels. And some of my beliefs and methodologies are not very progressive at all. When it comes to the type of media I choose to pollute myself with I'm not @ all picky. This is mostly due to the fact that I read very quickly and therefore I can afford to waste my time reading a lot of rubbish [also, I don't have a real job - I highly recommend this]. For the most part though, my intake revolves around a steady stream of CBC Radio, CNN and the New York Times with a variety of other things peppered throughout, including all of my favourite talk shows. While I'm quite open minded in terms of what I read/watch I'm a bit ashamed that I don't really read a lot of blogs. Especially the fancy and uber-professional blogs. I'm not sure why other than the fact that bloggers don't even have to attempt to hide their affiliations and motivations. I like a bit of mystery I guess. On my Google taskbar thing [that I love] a story popped up from the Huffington Post and yes, despite my aging liberal hippie douche credentials I've never visited them so tonight I visited the Huffington Post. It was...curious and not @ all what I expected. The fonts are simplistic - the layout all jumbly...I dunno...it's certainly not the hip design that I expect from the elite liberal media.

Oh - the content? Yeah, it was fine I guess. I just feel like I'm not really learning anything, yknow? I mean, I learned that all sorts of hep people that I really dig write columns over @ ye old Huffington Post and there are lots of high-larious videos from The Daily Show and elsewhere...I generally don't find "true" liberals to be funny @ all, so that was a little surprising. But the thing is - I can't help but feel as though the Huffington Post [as well as right-wing blogs and etc.] are just preaching to the choir and therefore I'm not entirely sure of their purpose, other than as a gathering place for people to get together and be all King of the Hill [yup, uh-huh, yep, yo...take a drink]. And I guess people need to do that. Mostly I just do that by myself or while shouting @ various CNN personalities. But yeah, I just might re-fashion myself as a pundit [I find people in my demographic are sorely under-reprensented in today's media - yknow - us white, Canadian, 30-year-old, overeducated, underemployed elitist geeks]...so watch me eat my words once this blog is finished.