New Blog Layout?

We could all use a brief respite from the moral harangue, so I'm looking for a little audience participation on another vital subject.

Does it seem to you like this blog looks kind of old and tired? Like a leisure suit and patent leather belt. Or a lawyer.

I have this sneaking suspicion that the format is now weathered and dated. Just like Lindsay Lohan. Looking at it sometimes makes me want to smash the computer screen.

No, that's not true. More like looking at it makes me want to do something other than look at it.

Blogger now has a lot more standard formats, so you don't have to become a computer code expert to freshen up your blog format. So I think over the next few days I'm going to try out several new formats. See what you think and let me know. Everything I write is already hard enough to read, so anything that makes it a little more reader-friendly has to help.

This will be sort of like taking your friend shopping and trying on a bunch of new clothes to get their opinion.

Yay!

That "yay" was sarcastic, by the way. Just in case you didn't know.

While I'm at it, I guess a more relevant question is does anyone read or write blogs anymore? I know from the "stats" feature that I get plenty of hits, but I assume 95% of them are spammers or guys wearing boxer shorts and sitting in their stepmothers' basements surfing for fetish sites. Google something weird like "belly sweat" and I'm sure one of my posts will pop up.

Of course, putting that question here probably won't reach the right audience.

I suppose blogs are archaic, like selling pagers in an iPhone world (just like Liz's ex-boyfriend Dennis on 30 Rock). How 2004 of me. Blurg! Well, I still enjoy writing it. Sometimes.

So me, my rotary dial phone, my AM radio, the fake talk show I host at my house on Tuesday and Thursday nights, and my blog are going to keep on going. If you think differently, send me a fax.

But let me know what you think of the different layouts too.

Next-RESPECT.