Gossip, geek, China blogs

I’m sub­scribed to way too many blogs (69 cur­rently, not in­ten­tion­ally). Funny thing about that is I ab­solutely hate read­ing. Always have. Every time I pick up a book, my eyes get tired and I want to sleep.

But I have no prob­lem scan­ning through blogs be­cause I can just read the stuff I like and skip the garbage posts. Everyday Google Reader feeds me 100+ new blog items from my sub­scrip­tions, and they’ve been teach­ing me a few things.

First, celebri­ties are funny as hell. The lives of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton re­ally shouldn’t mat­ter to me, but they’re just so en­ter­tain­ing! And Edison Chen is my new idol. Here are two very sim­i­lar and hi­lar­i­ous celebrity gos­sip blogs: The Blemish and The Superficial.

Second, I’ve learned that, de­spite my at­tempts to change, I’m still a geek at heart. And not the good kind that knows C++ and starts up com­pa­nies in their par­ents’ garage. I’m the kind that sits on his ass all day play­ing World of WarCraft and watch­ing anime. (For the record I stopped play­ing WoW a long time ago, and I just started watch­ing anime very re­cently!) The best geek blog I know of: Topless Robot.

Third, China is fas­ci­nat­ing, and not in the an­cient civ­i­liza­tion way that pops into Westerners’ minds. Hot top­ics in China right now in­clude a Photoshopped tiger that gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials at some town in­sist is real, and, of course, Edison Chen’s celebrity sex scan­dal. And if you still think China is be­hind the times, look up My Hero and Super Girl, American Idolesque crap that prove that China has in­deed caught up in the degra­da­tion of so­ci­ety. Check out Danwei.org and Shanghaiist.com.

That’s enough for now.