Remember the early seventies? No, I guess not, because most of you bloggers are probably BORN in the early seventies. Well, never mind. In the early seventies, people my generation, the boys likes to keep their hair Beatles style, wear bell bottoms that sweeps the streets as we strut and the girls likes to wear mini skirts. It was the “IN” look and those who did not spot this look were called “Square”, like a piece of wood, if you know what I mean. They would be teased and be an outcast among their peers.
Those days, we feel the wrath of our parents each time we sat for breakfast, lunch and dinner, the worst coming before we leave our house to join the gang every night. While on the street we were considered the scourge of society, not adhering to the basic human responsibility of dressing and behaving ourselves as respectable living things, but that was the right thing to do at that time. It gives us a sense of belonging that all humans needs.
Styles and trends have changed a plenty since. We have aged. My shoulder length hair has shaded quite a few and has been replaced by a neat crew cut for convenience sake, but different trends are set in different eras and it is good to be part of the trend, no matter what your age is.
It is the end of the year 2007 AD and a new trend is in vogue. This trend is spreading across the Blogospere like wild fire and there is no indication when it will fizzle out. It is the era of Page Rank Demotion and like the seventies, the more outrageous you are, the more hip you will be looked upon. It is an era when the lower your Page Rank gets, the more popular you become, especially if your blog is a few years old and has a high PR before the trend started.
Helping along very happily to spread this trend, Big Daddy G swept across the Blogospere with his bottle of the best stain remover that money can buy, cleaning every blog in his way that he deemed soiled, of whatever PR they have or had left.
When news gets around that a certain blog that had a PR 5 or 6 has been relegated to a big fat zero, thousands flock over to take a look, creating a cult following of sorts for the blogs that have been accorded the much coveted PR 0 these days. Those whose blogs were left untouched or even promoted were left by the sideline much like the Square Guy in the Seventies.
Like James Dean, blogs that received that ultimate recognition are blogs that are admired for their foolhardiness in daring to do things against the norm. They are the girls who dared to wear the mini when girls were supposed to be covered below their knees. They were the boys who kept their hairs when it was supposed to be neatly greased and combed backwards. The norm now is to have an established blog with a PR 0. If your blog is till hanging on to that PR 5 or worse, if you got recently promoted, then you are not getting into the trend. Your are a Square.
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I guess I’m one of the kewl kids now, then. LOL This post really made me smile. Thanks for that.
That’s great and cool, but James Dean died very young.
Dang, I’m square, after my newish blogs sitting at N/A or 0 they both went to a PR 3, boo hoo.
Great post.
This is my second time visiting – I liked several of your posts, so i subscribed! Jessica
But, isn’t it Hip to be Square (Huey Lewis & the News)?
lizzie
Real KEWL!
James
LOL. Indeed. but he was much loved.
Micheal
YOU SQUARE!
Jessica
THANKS!
Shireen
LOL~
I’m so IN.
I am now one of the cool people.. *flipping my Farrah Fawcett hair*
Itu Big G, minum termanyak todi lah. Macam semua blog mesti experience the Big “O”.
We shud all be porn stars….we’ve been getting “O”-ed so much!
Woohoo! I’m a hip blogger! The slap ticked me off, and I’m not going to be able to keep posting much, but what else can I do?
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