The Jack Factor

(She didn't have a steal-able picture from her template theme and so I stole my favorite picture from her blog, the infamous Afro Man 2 Way Door stopper)

The Blog: Gaijin Girl

First Impression: At first glance, I loved the look but thought I was going to bored shitless. But I was so very wrong.

Appearance: Well, it's a gorgeous blog. Gaijin Girl has done me proud when it comes to layout and design. The colors are vibrant and engaging and there is much texture to her background. I must know who made it so I can give them a shout out.

Allow me to just say this one thing real quick. Gaijin Girl's archives are listed as "My Monthly Cycles" and for a brief moment, I sort of worried that she was just insane enough to think that everyone in the known universe wanted to be kept up to date on her period. Which is actually pretty fucking funny if you ask me. And since you DID ask me, I'm tellin' ya.

Living in Japan has taught this chick a bit about feng shui (is that from Japan??) because her side bars are as neat as they come. Short links lists and a giggle for her blogroll titled, "That's just the way I blog roll". It is this kind of wit that made me decide to just start right at the beginning of this fucker and I've been deeply lost in every post for the last four hours.

Content: Gaijin Girl, I seriously wish that I had videotaped me reading your blog because you really need to see for yourself how much you cracked me the fuck up. Seriously. I started as I do with all the blogs reviewed by reading and taking notes of things to mention. Well, I have abandoned my list for your blog after I filled about thirty thousand pieces of printer paper with such scribbles as "inappropriate dry humping compulsion", "what the fuck is up with all of these creepy two headed children photos?" and also, "lives in what she will now call 'Tokyo'". And of course, there was the afro boy door stopper and the funky ass Japanese toilets.

For those of you reading this review, I guess I should have mentioned before now that this chick is living in Japan for a year to teach English to the the natives who aren't as short and skinny as she thought they'd be.

But back to the review... where was I... oh, yeah. I was also cracking up laughing at the weird people caught accidentally in the backgrounds of photos taken of friends. To be completely frank, here, every goddamn post was something that made me say, "Fuck! I wish I had thought if that because that is the funniest shit ever!"

I live in Japan, now. Not really, but Gaijin's blog does a great job of making me feel as though I'm really there with her gawking at the atrocious shit she sees in stores and marveling at the unidentifiably questionable cuisine.

At one point, I was reading her post that was 100 things about her and about halfway through I wrote on my little paper here "STOP READING NOW!!!" because I didn't know how I was going to narrow any of it down to write a critique that makes a lick of sense.

And as it is, I'm so excited about this blog that I'm rambling and going off on tangents, so allow me to get back on track.

One thing in the content is that you, Gaijin, have figured out the genius behind getting people to interact with you on your site. Oh, I've noticed and if it's unintentional then I'm going to tell you now that ending each post with a question is a fan-fucking-tastic way to engage your readers and make them feel compelled to leave comments. Which... has them coming back for more. You're so damned smart.

What I love: I love that her posts are written probably in the same way that she is thinking. She is just descriptive enough to make you feel like (or wish that) it was happening to you. This is real life, folks. She's on an adventure and holding nothing back.

What I hate: Fuck you. I really need an opportunity to bitch about something and you have given me nothing. You suck for being so un-sucky!

Suggestions: Fuck you some more. I got nuthin'. Except I may suggest you ditch the hubby in Japan and come on over here and we can wrestle :-)

Final say: People... go and read. Sit down with a cocktail and put down the Harry Potter book and just start at the beginning and read this shit. You will learn some things and laugh a lot. Another great fucking blog, goddamn it. And who cares that she is a lousy driver?... She has an 8px digital camera and is using it to show us the finer things of Japan, ahem-Afro Boy!

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