This blog entry is in english. Yet english is not my native language (italian is), so bear some indulgence with typos or grammatical mistakes. Also, I have been told that I write complex things - whether this is good or bad I don't know: but so, if you are unfamiliar with complex prose you may see grammatical errors not only where there could be some, but also where just a prose you're not acquainted with is. Native speakers with an A+ grade in english say my english, obviously not perfect, imports no major issues. Lend a deaf ear to the errors, vocally disagree with my thesis if you want, but enjoy the style all the while.
NOW REVIEWING: ADVANTAGE AUTO QUOTES
Advantage Auto Quotes makes us wonder again about an old question: what's the fascination with cars? Roland Barthes * even reserved one of his essays collected in his book titled "Mythologies" to "The New Citroen"; and he said that the relationship that entwines a man with his car (because you won't dare argue that we are politically uncorrect, once you see magazines prosper on the match: cars and women) is similar to that that may connect him with a spouse.
Whenever you see a car, no matter whether modern or old, you seem to partake of an immemorial vintage: as God took Eve from Adam's rib, so modernity took the car from another of man's ribs - we ought to have 18 left methinks.
The man leaning on his sport car, maybe nearby a disco or a nightclub, with a cigarette pending from his mouth, may raise in our minds icons as if they were ageless banners: like those of James Dean or Humphrey Bogart - and whereas cigarettes are now no longer to be sponsored, the car remains essential to this type of imago, to this modern mythology.
As a matter of fact, Advantage auto Quotes can't make without exhibiting all the typical allure a car must go with: a dashing purple car immediately flashes before our eyes: who would have liked a bumpy rusty dodge there? It seems to allude to a question: how fast can you go? How far shall you go?
A melancholy question, insomuch as if our lives, the lives of us the average middle suburban (wo)men, are concerned with something, it's certainly not with the remarkable speed we could travel by, but the incommensurable impasse we slowly drown in - and the fact that, day after day, we're going nowhere, simply. And we know it.
But we need to dream on, needn't we - even more than acting out: we still are in Kafka's books:
Advantage auto Quotes can't refrain from making us dream the old dream.
Of course, Advantage auto Quotes sells insurances: because you won't have to forget an important and too often overlooked implication about these dreams, namely that dreaming is dangerous: you may hurt yourself, you may never have that dashing red dream car and die with one more unfulfilled wish - and, of course, you may even end up cleaning Las Vegas dry.
And isn't that last one dangerous indeed?
NOW REVIEWING: BLOGVERTISE
I have recently stumbled across Blogvertise and I decided to check out their features.
Blogvertise claims to offer the following option, if I have understood it correctly: it may provide you with addresses of blogs, and ask your review of them - and you can even raise, apparently, some money out of it.
Now, Full Poster would have a better arena for that: the Web Sites reviews section, that each member has.
However, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, and blog for blog, it seems that Blogvertise requires entries in an actual blog, so I decided to put them here.
My idea is to include in this entry as many blog reviews as I can, with the new ones going on top of the last entry. Once finished the allocable chars here, or aranged what I may deem a sufficient amount of reviews on this entry, I can always start a new blog entry for a new lot of blog reviews.
I am unaware how this Blogvertise thing may work, but reviewing blogs is something I'd like indeed - if then they even pay you something, all the better.
A small Google search may reveal the site also got adverse reactions: Blogvertise, for desperate and stupid publishers. I'd like to comment on that: it is certainly the type of service that may enroll "the desperate and the stupid" - after all also F.S. Fitzgerald * had to deal with "The Beautiful And The Damned" * - both. Yet, provided the service works and does what it pledges, what makes you desperate is not necessarily what makes you stupid too; and what you may make stupid doesn't necessarily come out of desperation: Bertrand Russell * certainly wasn't stupid, and yet he wrote In Praise Of Idleness.
In other words, if something is stupid or desperate, or both, it does not mean you could not make out of it something more valuable: an intelligent insight or comment about a stupid blog or topic may not ennoble the blog, yet it may ennoble you. The stupidity we ascribe to the others, may at times just be the mental vacuum we lead our lives into. And after all, God made (wo)men out of mire.
At any rate, Blogvertise is much more delivering a service than many others. This same blog was for instance rejected by payperpost.com first on the declared assumption it wasn't a blog whereas Blogvertise stated immediately it was; once realized it was, they rejected it because it wouldn't have been updated within 30 days; when told and realized there was a timestamp (what else?) that revealed it had been updated indeed within 30 days from appllication, they rejected it again, but this round because it wouldn't have been in english (inglese, inglés...) - I wonder what language is this I am writing here, like in other 40 posts: and fairly long posts, each of one probably making up for 10 posts of an average blogger's length.
And that's the point: apparently some services can't recognize anything that isn't exactly average.
In fact, in search of an explanation for easily disproved reasons, your fault may be that of not being anonymous enough to look like any other, cast in the same stamp the zillions are cast. If you don't, you must not be a blog!
And you ought to write always in english, because if you have enough culture to know 2 or 3 languages and you write in both and yet english mathematically and widely still predominates, again you must not be a valid blog! Valid bloggers utter only english, don't know of anything else, eat burgers instead than studying german, mumble 10 lines of blog entries they don't believe in as long as they can get paid, and have 50% of stark blank page margins so to be immediately recognized like in the pack.
So, I'd rather complain about the inability of some services to deliver their serivices complying indeed with the guidelines they themselves stated for themselves, and commit their reviews to quality reviewers, rather than complaining about the alleged malvagity of getting a few bucks out of what you would do anyway.
I normally put in my blog a different type of contents - essays, actually. But for a change we can certainly include also a few entries where we analyze the blogs of the others.
Blogvertise may be a commercial venture, and I have no idea yet if it's worth my subscription; however, the blogsphere is a window open on the world, its insanity and hopes and beauties and squalor, therefore it may well be that over time we can elaborate something of some interest - in that not frivolous style that becomes me that much.
There was a nice short story by J.D. Salinger * once, titled "For Esme With Love And Squalor * " - there this young girl says:"I'd be extremely flattered if you'd write a story exclusively for me sometime. I'm an avid reader."
I told her certainly I would, if I could. I said that I wasn't terribly prolific.
"It doesn't have to be terribly prolific! Just so that it isn't childish and silly." She reflected. "I prefer stories about squalor."
"About what?" I said, leaning forward.
"Squalor. I'm extremely interested in squalor."
(...)
She nodded. "Make it extremely squalid and moving" she suggested. "Are you at all acquainted with squalor?"
I said not exactly but that I was getting better acquainted with it, in one form or another, all the time, and that I'd do my best to come up to her specifications.So let's see how much squalor we may meet in this story, and if we can face it "so that it isn't childish and silly".
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