Is there a perfect blog?

I have blogapathy these days...some of it is with my own, but my own is still developing, is still the mishmash that is my brain. What I have blogapathy with is the blogosphere as a whole. Today, as I was searching for the perfect post, I came away disgruntled. I know it's the holidays and blogging is light or blogging passion is light, but I found myself not finding the perfect blog hit.

It had me wondering... Is it the blogosphere or is it me??? Do we develop blog tolerance? Will what started so easily suddenly turn into a frantic search for more, better, quicker???

It used to be that I only needed one blog. I found it via the God of Blogs... it was delivered unto me and  I was blognogamous. I found what I considered to be the perfect blog... but with time, I developed the 7 month itch... I had to go out and find other blogs that would satisfy that blog itch.

And... I found them. I found blogs (also here and here)that offered variety as well as consistency of subject, but then, even then, I found myself wanting. I started my own blog... that helped somewhat. It was the 21st century way of going within. What you need is right there at your feet... there's no place like home, etc, etc, etc.

And... with that, I found an increased satisfaction, but still... I found myself wanting more, searching for more...

There are a 8 million naked blogs on the internets... so I looked. I searched.

And... I found new ones that made me laugh so hard I cried. To this day, a post named "Snackcake Dictators" brings a smile to my face. I found mysterious ones that appeared to be "what you see is what you get", but turned out to be filled with not only humor, but depth and thought. I found other ones that were created in the midst of war and they made me think. I found ones filled with unbelievable passion and focus. I even rediscovered the old familiar ones and yet, I feel antsy...

Will I never rediscover the blog buzz of my first page hit? Will I constantly click through blogrolls hoping for a new "Aha!"? Can one blog truly be all to all people???

I don't know... I must admit though, that I sit here at my computer, feeling somewhat like the Skinner Box rat hitting my food pellet or pleasure bar, but nothing is happening...

Blogs can be a terrible thing and a wonderful thing, but I wonder, is there such a thing as the perfect blog? The blog that is the end all, be all? The blog panacea??? 

And... is it fair to expect that either from our own blogs or from others...

I. Don't. Know.

Comments

[blue girl]

First of all, let me say, you are *so* funny.

:)

Secondly, I know what you mean...

I'm click, click, clicking away, through the appeasesaphere -- and I can zip through it so fast now, that I'm disappointed in like, I don't know, 5 minutes.

:)

Just kidding, bloggers who I love who are reading this comment!

I'm actually having a hard time blogging myself right now. It's my own problem. I need to get back to what I started doing almost two years ago (Oh. My. God. Two Years Ago!) -- and just do whatever it was that I thought I was doing to begin with. Writing? Being creative? I don't know. I'm even boring myself. In WAY less than five minutes, that's for sure.

A perfect blog? Nah. Nothing's perfect. Except...

"Snackcake Dictators"

That's a classic! A perfect one! For the ages!

:)

p.s. You have *got* to get into Bobness. He will rock your world.

:)

[blue girl]

I just clicked over to "Snackcake Dictators" again. I have tears! Tears!

Is that not the funniest thing? Are they not the funniest he/she/it/birds you've ever read?

LOL!

[Jennifer]

Snackcake Dictators (or is it Snack Cake Dictators???) will live in infamy!

As for bloggage, I think you have it right... just do what you want to do and don't worry about the outcome. Maybe we all become to aware of our own voice and then we try to alter it, change it, make it what we think it is...

I think I will go read "Snacktators" one more time.

[Claire]

Jennifer, here's a link I have hidden on my blog under the title, "In Case of a Blog Emergency." I saw it first at Tattered Coat and have dispensed it many times.

http://thenonist.com/index.php/weblog/permalink/a_nonist_public_service_pamphlet/

[Jennifer]

CLAIRE!!! YES! I had forgotten about that! Thank you for putting the smelling salts of reality under my nose!

Hope you had a good holiday. It sounds like you did. Glad P-sycho did okay on the ride.

[thethinker]

I don't think any of us know. What one may deem perfect could be trite to another. It's a big guessing game and you just have to settle on what you think is good.

[almostinfamous]

all the blogs on the 3b! sidebar are great. perfect? well that would be my own!

except that it kinda sucks!

happy new year :)

[Jennifer]

aif- Happy New Year to you as well!