Not exactly the thinking man’s sort of blog, but the sort as is opinionated in its own way by trying to succeed by (to borrow from Joan Rivers) saying what everybody else is thinking. Snarky, with just a touch of gnarlyness.

It’s basically my way to kill time in lieu of honest work; I have serious mental and emotional disorders brought on by past abuse, cruelty and maltreatment as prevent my finding honest work. Even attempts to try and make me employable in the sheltered-workshop system have proven unsuccessful, what with unstable work assignments, equally-unstable wages, and a mindset expecting disabled persons to do only the worst sort of work that no sane person would try to apply for–so long as they kept quiet and did dangerous work.

That, and a way to defy the mindset of Those Who Should Know Better who expect such among my ilk to keep quiet and not have any opinions other than the “approved” such from Fox Prolefeed, say, and being expected to parrot out what amounts to “bumper-sticker slogans” according to scripted and nuanced formula.

I just needed a conduit to vent myself on what was going on in the world–think of The Exaggerator as, more or less, a running letter to the editor as tends to ramble on and on.

(The name itself, I will have you know, was inspired by the Scooby-Doo prequel series “A Pup Named Scooby-Doo”–specifically, the “National Exaggerator” supermarket tabloid Freddie refers to occasionally, much to Daphne’s exasperation. It was shortened to “The Exaggerator” because of limits on Blogdrive’s part on how many characters blog names can have.)

The Exaggerator has been going on since the inter-holiday (i.e., Christmas and New Year’s) period of 2007, replacing my previous (and slower-performing) blog “the daily phosdex,” as existed in one form or another since 2002.

Thanks to the help of EntreCard, I get between 175 and 200 hits/day.

Alas for it! attempts to make money off the online-shopping and donations angle have been for nought; would that it were otherwise, in all honesty.

I am trying to use a mix of affiliate programmes (especially those of amazon.com, amazon.ca and amazon.co.uk) and an e-boutique with CafePress.com that I call “The Exaggerator Collection” to raise money which, in theory, would supplement what I get (howbeit limited) in disability benefit that I get in lieu of conventional employment.

(One thing I should mention is where I plan to donate part of the proceeds I get from the online-shopping angle to reducing the National Debt, in case anybody needed good cause to shop online.)

The kind as is probably looking for an antidote to the dry, formula-written, predictably boring-sounding such, having become bored by the same-old, same-old stylee and phrasing.
1-2 hours per day, which can depend on the topics running across my little mind. Sometimes, I work with notes; sometimes, not.

As I said early on, it’s not exactly the sort that would be called a “thinking man’s blog,” but is opinionated in its own snarky, slightly gnarly sort of way. The kind which can get to be rather hilarious (think for a moment of the Argentine radio show “Loony Radio,” broadcast every weekend from an insane asylum outside Buenos Aires).

To borrow from a few T-shirt slogans and posters of my time:

*”If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance … baffle them with bull.”

*”In a world full of copycats … be an original.”

*”Why be normal?”

(And challenge authority–politely, of course.)

This blog can be visited at http://exaggerator.blogdrive.com/