If I was more cynical, less worried about language, and actually had some kind of talent, my website would be more like Ahren Paulson’s plognark.com – a veritable bastion of inspirational creativity, unfiltered by societal views on presentation and shining like a beacon of coy bizzarity on the internet.
Seriously… bizzarity is an actual word…
He’s like the Steven Wright of blogging, illustrating Tim Burton’s twisted cast-offs and publishing them on the net with his unbiased opinion of life, the workplace and everything in between.
I stumbled upon plognark when one of his illustrations was used on a blog about airplanes to illustrate the basic yet apparently-not-so-obvious point that “if you can’t fly an airliner, you don’t get to tell the pilot how to do his job.”
And after a quick distraction over on HowStuffWorks to find out how to explain how airplanes can fly upside down if lift is based on Bernoulli’s principle (hint: lift isn’t based solely on Bernoulli’s principle), I started reading through Ahren’s posts and viewing his twisted gallery with growing amusement.
His candor and cynicism, couched in humorous illustrations and language reminiscent of early Eddie Murphy or Richard Pryor, does a great job of making me smile, laugh, forget about my own situation for a while, and get the necessary mental break I need to get back to doing it to for the man!
…when his site isn’t blocked by my company’s internet filter…