Color Me Surprised

1. Who do you associate with ‘green fingers’?
Martians picking their nose.

2. Who or what was the Red Baron?
A son of Trump born out of wedlock.

3. What was the significance of yellow ribbons around oak trees?
This is where you get off the bus.

4. Why did Alice follow the White Rabbit?
She wanted to get her watch back.

5. Who was The Black Knight?
He attacked the White Queen.

6. What is a Blue Moon?
That is what happened when the Smurfs landed on it.

7. Do brown cows produce colored milk?
I am not sure, but I heard that they produce the breast milk.

8. Why was the Pink Panther pink?
This happened when he went to a nudist colony.

9. Why are pandas black and white?
Because they watch a lot of old movies.

10. What is a Silver Shadow?
The boll weevil sees silver shadows after feeding on cotton buds and flowers.

Written for Di’s Fibbing Friday.

Reblog Modern Dating

In the real world, love can be hard to find, so daters are increasingly turning to the digital world instead.  Part of the process for signing up on dating sites and apps is writing a profile designed to catch the interest of potential partners.  You can connect with potential partners via chat rooms, private messages, video chatting, and more.  Look for people who have qualities you find attractive, such as a good sense of humor, an established career, or similar life goals.  An online profile creates a quick and easy place to highlight splices of someone’s life and personality.  You can display your hobbies, interests, pastimes, friends, or family if you want to.  The way daters represent themselves online makes a big difference in who responds and how. ​ One third of U.S. adults age 55-plus have used an online dating site or app, and two-thirds of them had a relationship with someone they met through the platform.

In theory, online dating should be great.  Many of the new dating apps are hookup sites, where people are seeking instant physical gratification and have no desire for a long-term serious committed relationship.  Hookup platforms offer a variety of communication features to facilitate casual connections allowing members to search for potential matches without worrying about meeting someone face-to-face.  Cuffing season (a period of time where single people begin looking for short term partnerships) usually begins in October and lasts until just after Valentines Day.  Cuffing season and casual dating are both possibilities today, making hookup culture more openly accepted and even somewhat expected for young people.  However, it can be difficult to find people who are interested in the same type of relationship that you are looking for if everyone is swiping right for casual sex, a one-night stand or friends-with-benefits.  The casual sex culture dictates that emotions cannot come in way of sexual attachment and because of this many people are missing out on romance, intimacy, and satisfying sex that they deserve, which only happens after a special bond is formed when two people actually care about each other.

Modern Dating

W is for Why

People blog for many reasons and blogs have become an essential part of our lives today.  I started blogging because I wanted to publish a book and I read that every author needs a platform, so I started a website.  I had no idea what I was doing when I first started out and then I discovered writing prompts, which became my inspiration for continuing to write.  The writing prompts made blogging fun and challenging for me.  Some days the prompts are better than they are on other days, but there are enough of them out there if you look for them.  When other people join in on the same prompts and you each read each other’s posts and then you start to chat and become friends, that is the best part of blogging.  The blogging community that I have become part of is amazing and I look at these other bloggers as my colleagues, my friends, who support me and we each cheer for each other.  When I get positive comments on my blog (which is usually the case), it makes me feel pride in the efforts that I put into my posts, and I love returning the favor by commenting on other blogs.  I am happy about all the friends that I have made here, and I feel that we have each other’s backs, so I am always glad to help them out if they need something.

It takes discipline to be a blogger and you need to love writing to be good at it.  On top of that, you have to have enough time in your schedule to devote to writing and you have to be motivated in order to continue reading and writing posts.  I don’t do much else in my life, so I have plenty of free time for blogging and usually I have enough energy to write more than one post.  I blog on a desktop computer with a big monitor, so I feel it is a lot easier for me than those people who blog on their smart phones, which so many people seem to prefer.  I don’t mind sharing some of the intimate details in my life and I have opened myself up, sharing my feelings and some of my experiences along with my thoughts, and knowledge on certain topics.  I am not an exhibitionist, but stripping myself down, in front of the world, and showing people who I am can be liberating.  When my readers comment to share personal insights with me about something in my blog, this reassurance always brings me comfort.

Some bloggers are in it for the money, but I don’t know any of them in the community that I am in and if someone is advertising products or services on their blog, I don’t think that I would ever follow them.  I have met a lot of bloggers that know a lot about music, and I enjoy reading their blogs and it is nice to learn things from someone who is an authority on a subject.  I write about music a lot, but this is not because I am an authority, it is more about me trying to develop an expertise on the subject, by looking deeply into songs.  Long before I became a blogger, I worked as a subject matter expert in a group of technical writers and I use the same techniques that I learned on that job in my blog now, which is mostly when I don’t know something, then I do research to find out.  Getting answers helps me from feeling powerless when I don’t know anything about a topic and I feel that all the answers are out there someplace, of you look hard enough to find them.

Some people become bloggers to get a creative outlet where they can share their thoughts, ideas and passions and blogging is perfect for them as it gives them all of the creative freedom that they need to write about whatever they like.  I follow some bloggers that write a lot of poetry, and they are usually very enthusiastic about their writing.  It takes a lot of my patience when I read poetry, because most of the time I am not sure what the writers are saying.  Reading and understanding poetry is challenging for me, because poetry often requires a different way of thinking and interpretation than other forms of writing.  I have to read it slowly and pay attention to all of the words, looking for the imagery, emotions, and themes that are being expressed.  It is usually a struggle for me, as I often wonder if I am misinterpreting what the poet is trying to say.  Some poems speak to me, and others don’t do anything, so I guess it is a lot like music, as I like music, but certain songs I like better.

Writing blog posts should improve your writing skills and it may even increase your vocabulary.  I think that my writing has gotten better after writing almost 6,000 posts, but it is hard for me to judge myself, as this whole blogging thing has been a long, strange trip for me.  I know that I have gained a lot of knowledge since I became a blogger and that is probably because I have written on so many different topics.  I hope my blog stays around for a while, as some of my posts can serve as a record to help people who are interested in the topics that I have discussed, and my hope is that some of my posts could make a difference in somebody’s life.  Blogging lets me create my own schedule and the more that I write, the more my confidence level increases.  Blogging is a good outlet for people who want to process their own thoughts.

Semiramis

The Romans had Venus, the Greeks had Aphrodite, the Babylonians worshiped a goddess named Ishtar who was also called Astarte by the Phoenicians and she was the goddess of love and reproduction, and all of these goddesses are thought to be derived from Semiramis, who was also known as the whore of Babylon.  She is holding an egg in her left hand because she was a fertility goddess responsible for all life, but she was also the goddess of war, so she is holding a sword in her right hand.  For my second book, I started piecing together some of the ancient Babylonian myths and I am not sure if any of this is true, but it does make a great story.  Nimrod was a great grandson of Noah, and his mother and wife, Semiramis, was also known as Ishtar and Isis.  Nimrod thought of himself as a god in a new religion that he created, and he led the world into an open rebellion against God.  Shem was a son of Noah, and he watched his great nephew Nimrod organizing the human race into a world government centered on idolatry worship and human sacrifice.  Shem decided to do something about this tyranny and prove that Nimrod was not a god.  Shem saw the hold that evil had over Nimrod, so he went to his house, and he managed to gouge out one of his eyes and then he beat him to death.  Shem had Nimrod’s body cut up into 14 little pieces, which were distributed to all the cities under Nimrod’s rule, as a warning against people practicing the pagan religion of sun worship and using sorcery to control people.

When Nimrod died, Semiramis had to maintain her grip & power over the people in Babylon, so she gathered all of the parts, except she was not able to locate his reproductive organ.  Semiramis claimed that Nimrod could not come back to life without it and told the people of Babylon that Nimrod had ascended to the sun and was now to be called Baal, the sun god.  Queen Semiramis also proclaimed that Baal would be present on earth in the form of a flame, whether it be a candle or lamp, when it was used in worship.  Semiramis further developed this new and mysterious religion, and with the help of Satan, she set herself up as a goddess.  Semiramis claimed that she was immaculately conceived.  She eventually became pregnant, while still asserting that she was a virgin and she claimed that it was the rays of the sun-god Baal that caused her to conceive.  Semiramis demanded worship for both her husband and her son as well as herself.

Here is where this story gets confusing, as Semiramis married her son called Tammuz who was Nimrod reincarnated, which is why some people incorrectly say that the story has Nimrod marrying his mother.  Both versions of this story with Nimrod marrying his mother and Semiramis marrying her son are told.  Some stories say that Semiramis was the wife of Cush a grandson of Noah.  It is often said that Nimrod built the tower of Babel, but that is not mentioned in the Bible.  Myths and legends surrounding Nimrod and Semiramis make discerning factual data about them difficult to know what actually happened.  Nimrod was involved in the spirit world and one legend says that he opened his third eye by marrying his mother, which has fascinated spiritual seekers for centuries as a gateway to higher consciousness and the inner realms of intuition and wisdom.  After Nimrod opened up his third eye, he turned against God by establishing state-worship and paganism, which included human sacrifice.  The third eye symbolizes the eye of intuition and insight.  The third eye looks inward, unlike the physical eyes that perceive the external world, granting the beholder a profound understanding of the self and the universe.

Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge #328 where today she gave us a photo prompt.

Take Me Home

Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia wrote the Grateful Dead song ‘So Many Roads’, which was first performed on February 22, 1992 and it was played live about 50 times till Jerry died three years later.  In an interview, Garcia said about this song, “It’s Hunter writing me from my point of view, you know what I mean?  We’ve been working together for so long that he knows what I know.  The song is full of references to things that have to do with me, so Hunter is the only guy that could do that.  He can write my point of view better than I can think it, you know what I mean?  So that’s the kind of relationship we have.  And he frequently writes tunes from my point of view that are autobiographical. There actually biographical, I guess.  He’s the one writing them, but even so they express my point of view – and more than that they express the emotional content of my soul in a certain way that only a long-term and intimate relationship with a guy as brilliant as Hunter coughs up … I can sing that song, feel totally comfortable with it.  Hunter commented on this song saying, “One afternoon, Jerry was playing some unstructured changes on the piano.  Figuring they might be forgotten otherwise, I clicked on my tape recorder.  Ten years later I found the tape and listened to it, liked it, and set these words to it.  Listening to the pitifully recorded and time-degraded tape, Jerry protested that, although he liked the words, his changes were not very good and unfinished besides.  This didn’t seem to be the base and I requested that he at least give it a run through.  The result was one of the better received new GD songs and one that almost got away.”

This was one of Hunter and Garcia’s final songwriting collaborations, and its lyrics quote a couple of Garcia’s favorite songs, the 1929 Memphis Jug Band classic ‘K.C. Moan’ and Jelly Roll Morton’s ‘Winin’ Boy Blues’ that was first recorded by Alan Lomax in 1939.  There may possibly be a reference to the Beatles song ‘Blackbird’ in this and also the Fats Domino song ‘Blueberry Hill’ although the lyrics say “Bluebird Hill.”  In the Merle Travis song ‘Sixteen Tons’ which was made famous by Tennessee Ernie Ford, it includes a line that says, “Born on a day when the sun didn’t shine” and that may be referenced in this song also.  On their 1966 debut album Big Brother & the Holding Company recorded a song titled ‘Easy Rider’ where the chorus features the line, “Easy rider don’t you deny my name” and similar lyrics appear in this song along with ‘Winin’ Boy Blues’.  Another Fats Domino song may be referenced with the lyrics in the end of the first verse, “ain’t that a shame?”  Hunter must have been thinking about the Chuck Berry song where he sings “No particular place to go, So we parked way out on the Kokomo” when he wrote this tune and that was also a popular Beach Boys song.

Thought I heard a blackbird singing
Up on Bluebird Hill
Call me a whinin’ boy if you will
Born where the sun don’t shine
And I don’t deny my name
Got no place to go, ain’t that a shame?

Thought I heard that KC whistle
Moaning sweet and low
Thought I heard that KC when she blow
Down where the sun don’t shine
Underneath the Kokomo
Whinin’ boy got no place to go

So many roads I tell you
So many roads I know
So many roads, so many roads
Mountain high, river wide
So many roads to ride
So many roads, so many roads

Thought I heard a jug band playin’
“If you don’t… who else will?”
From over on the far side of the hill
All I know the sun don’t shine
And the rain refused to fall
And you don’t seem to hear me when I call

Wind inside and the wind outside
Tangled in the window blind
Tell me why you treat me so unkind
Down where the sun don’t shine
Lonely and I call your name
No place left to go, ain’t that a shame?

So many roads I tell you
New York to San Francisco
So many roads I know
All I want is one to take me home
From the high road to the low
So many roads I know
So many roads so many roads

From the land of the midnight sun
Where the ice blue roses grow
Along those roads of gold and silver snow
Howlin’ wide or moaning low
So many roads I know
So many roads to ease my soul

So many roads to ease my soul
So many roads to ease my soul
So many roads to ease my soul
So many roads to ease my soul

Written for Thursday Inspiration #225 Nantucket Sleighride where the prompt is home.

V is for Verify

The truth is what it is and not what you want it to be.  A fact is something that’s indisputable pointing to a specific time or a truth under a specific circumstance.  A fact has actually happened or it is empirically true and can be supported by evidence.  Facts are not opinions and when they can be objectively verified, we must accept them as being true.  Some people are good some of the time and bad at other times and that is why Santa is always checking his list twice.  Santa changes his list when new information is presented to him and that double checking is how he determines who is naughty and who is nice.  Most blogs are not considered to be credible sources, but some bloggers will prioritize making sure that their posts are well-researched, accurate, and contain trustworthy content.  You can’t believe everything that you read on the internet even though it is one of the quickest and easiest ways to find the answer to any and every question you may have.   There is no quality assurance when it comes to information found on the Internet, as anyone can post anything and, in most cases, information found on the web has not been checked for accuracy.  If you want to produce reliable information, it must come from dependable sources that provide a thorough, well-reasoned theory, argument, etc. based on strong evidence.  Finding credible sources ensures that your information is able to support your arguments and provide a well-rounded perspective.

Make your blog post unique by being controversial, but don’t include misleading information, as you should always check the facts.  Fact-checking is a method that is used to investigate issues to see if they are true.  Disinformation and misinformation are spread so widely these days that the term fake news has come into existence, causing everyone to distrust what they hear.  Stories are fabricated for propaganda purposes and this is widely used to discredit any opposing viewpoint.  Through digital sources, there has been a tremendous increase of false information circulating on the internet, because of the technological ease of copying, pasting, clicking and sharing content online which all has helped misinformation and disinformation to proliferate.  The more times that a lie is repeated, the liars that are spreading it, think it will eventually become the truth.

I watched this episode of Monk who is a TV detective that works in San Francisco and his assistant Natalie was helping to re-paper his walls.  Monk tells her that it is crooked, and she takes out a level and places it on the wall and she says, “No it’s not, it is perfectly level, the bubble is right in the middle.”  Monk takes out another level and places it on the wall and Natalie asks him what he is doing, and he tells her that this is his level checking level that he uses to make sure that his level is accurate.  Julie who is Natalie’s daughter says, “How do you know that one is accurate?”  Monk tells her that he takes this one to the hardware store every 6 months to get it recalibrated.  I am sure there is a lesson in here someplace about you never being able to be too sure that something is true or not.

Thursday Inspiration #225 Nantucket Sleighride

Respond to this challenge, by either using the prompt word home, or going with the above picture, or by means of the song ‘Nantucket Sleighride’, or by going with another Mountain song, or you can go with anything else that you think fits.  ‘Nantucket Sleighride’ is a rather long song and it appeared on Mountain’s 1971 second studio album of the same name.  This is probably one of the darkest rock and roll song ever written, but only if you know the story behind the song, as the darkness is not reflected in the lyrics.  Mountain’s bass player/producer Felix Pappalardi wrote this song with his then girlfriend who would become his wife, Gail Collins when they were on Nantucket Island off Massachusetts.  The whaling industry was the main source of oil for fueling the Industrial Revolution, but whales could only be captured after they were harpooned and the boats dragged then across the ocean until the wounded mammals succumbed to their injuries.  A Nantucket sleighride, refers to the process of a whaleboat dragging a harpooned whale that is diving deep trying to get the harpoons out of its back, flying to the surface and pulling the boats along with it.  This song was dedicated to Owen Coffin, a young seaman on the Nantucket whaler Essex, and it is a fictional account of a true story, which ended in cannibalism after the ship was rammed and sunk by a sperm whale in 1820.

In the aftermath of the wreck, Coffin was shot and eaten by his shipmates.  The story of the Essex was recorded in 1821 by its First Mate Owen Chase, one of eight survivors.  The sperm whale caused the longest drag events, reaching speeds of 23 mph (37 km/h), and the length of the drag lasted until the animal had no more energy.  In August 1819, Owen Coffin was aboard the Essex when it set sail for the Pacific Ocean on a sperm whale-hunting expedition under the command of his cousin, George Pollard, Jr.  In November 1820, a whale rammed and breached the hull of Essex in mid-Pacific, causing Essex to sink.  The crew escaped in small whaleboats, with sufficient supplies for two months, but they landed on Henderson Island, and three of the survivors decided to remain there.  The others decided to take their chances on the open sea and in January 1821, the near-starved survivors began to eat the bodies of those who had died.  When this resource ran out, the four men remaining in Pollard’s boat agreed to draw straws to decide which of them should be killed, preventing all four from dying of starvation and Owen Coffin drew the short straw, so he was shot and eaten.  The captain volunteered to take Coffin’s place, but Coffin refused, saying it was his right to do his part, so that the others might live.

The song mentions a Robin-Marie who was said to be a woman that Pappalardi was cheating on Collins with.  Collins and Pappalardi had an open marriage, and their bed was often shared with guests.  In 1982, Pappalardi began sleeping with an aspiring singer, 27-year-old Valerie Merians.  The sex evolved into love, and Collins knew her marriage was on the brink.  Four months later, Collins was charged with murder when she shot and killed Pappalardi after his tryst with Merians.  That night, Gail was pretty stoned on Percodan, and she shot Felix with a derringer pistol in his neck while he was on the bed in his underwear, after he confessed his love affair to Gail Collins.  She was convicted of criminally negligent homicide and sentenced to 16 months to 4 years in prison, but after two years, she was released on parole.

Goodbye, little Robin-Marie
Don’t try following me
Don’t cry, little Robin-Marie
‘Cause you know I’m coming home soon

Fire Engine Sirens

As a child when I had a fever, a temperature of 100.4°F or higher, I had these dreams where I heard the sounds of fire engine sirens.  These dreams most likely reflected the uncertainty about when I was going to get better, and they built up my anxiety concerning my fear of the unknown.  I don’t remember what the fire trucks were doing in my childhood dreams, but the sirens always gave me a headache.  I guess the fire truck signified some type of urgency, like a problem that needed to be resolved by immediate action obtaining a quick resolution.  At this time in my life, I didn’t know anything about the Greek mythical sirens, that Odysseus or Ulysses encountered in his adventures and how they lured sailors to their deaths, but these sirens always haunted my dreams.  This was such a long time ago and I remembered them as being fire engine sirens, but it is quite possible that my dreams could have been about an ambulance that had a siren and flashing lights.

Most times, you have to let a fever run its course, but getting rest and staying hydrated are always recommended as solutions.  There’s no evidence that sweating out a fever will help you feel better faster, but years ago, that is what my parents believed.  The sounds of these sirens in my sleep caused me to panic and that made me sweat more and usually in the morning, I was soaking wet, but my fever had broken by then.  I always felt that these sirens put me on my road to recovery, so even though they were very annoying in my dreams, I was happy to wake up feeling normal again.

Written for Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Dream Interpretation hosted by Cai where she asked us to share a childhood dream.

The Diophantine Equation

Maxwell’s equations, Einstein’s field equations and Schrödinger’s equations are some of the most difficult equations for anyone to attempt to solve, and if you don’t have a degree in mathematics, then forget about it.  Maxwell’s equations require an understanding of some calculus, vector calculus, light differential equations, and basic electromagnetism.  Working with Einstein’s field equations which relate spacetime curvature to matter and energy would require you to know about tensor calculus (or differential geometry).  To understand Schrödinger’s equations, you would have to know Linear Algebra, Partial Differential Equations, Hilbert space, the Dirac- delta function, and Fourier transforms.  To work on a Diophantine equation, all you need to know is what constitutes an integer and the basic arithmetic of Euclidean division, where you divide the dividend by the divisor, however this equation can be very difficult to solve.

Around 270, Diophantus of Alexandria wrote a collection of books called Arithmetica, that contains approximately 260 assorted algebra problems that deal with finding integer solutions to equations in several unknowns.  Diophantine equations are polynomial equations that involve only sums, products, and powers in which all the constants have integer coefficients and where only integer solutions are accepted.  An example would be, ax + by = c or x² − y² = z³, where a, b, c, x, y, and z are integers.  Diophantus was the first to introduce algebraic symbolism.  A Diophantine equation is an equation relating integer (or sometimes natural number or whole number) quantities.  Finding the solution or solutions to a Diophantine equation is closely tied to modular arithmetic, number theory, Galois theory, Fermat’s Last Theorem, theta-functions and Abelian functions.  Often, when a Diophantine equation has infinitely many solutions, parametric form is used to express the relation between the variables of the equation.  The equation ax + by = c, has many solutions and if we choose a to be 3 and x to be 4 and b to be 6 and y to be 1, then c would equal 18 as shown here: 3·4+6·1=18, but I am not going to get into how to solve Diophantine equations in this post.

The German mathematician David Hilbert (1862–1943) was a speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1900, where he proposed a list of 23 as yet unsolved problems that he saw as being the greatest challenges for twentieth-century mathematics and this proved to be very influential in the development of mathematics in the last century.  The tenth problem in his list relates to a Diophantine equation, where Hilbert asked for a computing algorithm which will tell if a given polynomial Diophantine equation with integer coefficients has a solution in integers or not, or they would have to prove that a solution was impossible.  Given a Diophantine equation with any number of unknown quantities and with rational integral numerical coefficients: To devise a process according to which it can be determined in a finite number of operations whether the equation is solvable in rational integers.  This tenth problem was solved in 1970 by Yuri Matiyasevich and his ingenious solution reduced the proof to polynomials, proving that no such algorithm exists.  Matiyasevich built on the work of others including Julia Robinson, Martin Davis, and Hilary Putnam, eventually showing that one could model Turing machines using Diophantine equations where a solution to a Diophantine equation existing was equivalent to the corresponding Turing machine halting.  The halting problem tried to determine from a description of an arbitrary computer program and an input, whether the program will finish running, or continue to run forever.  A general procedure to solve Diophantine equations is equivalent to solving the Halting problem.

Written for FOWC with Fandango – Equation.

U is for Usefulness

Blogs can be good information sources, but some are more credible than others and many are trying to sell you products, so they seem pushy to me.  Bloggers get popular when they write great posts with content that their readers can relate to.  Relevance can be determined by a variety of factors, including the accuracy and quality of the information, the context in which it is presented, and the needs and interests of the intended audience.  Information that is highly accurate and well-researched may be more relevant to a scientific audience than to a general audience, while information that is presented in a clear and accessible way may be more relevant to a broader audience.  Different people may have different perspectives and information needs, so what may be useful or related to one person may not be as relevant to another.  Useless, meaningless, inconsequential information is counterproductive and a waste of time and money, so I consider it to be worthless.  Most blogs contain interesting topics, but not that many are useful, and it is not like there is a shortage of topics to write about.  Much of the content produced by bloggers is useless and I just read a statistic that only 3% of people think social media currently provides useful, educational content.  Not all topics are beneficial or advantageous and many bloggers don’t contribute anything to society, they don’t want to solve any problems or write things that might help or assist others.

Google’s automated ranking systems are designed to present helpful, reliable information that’s primarily created to benefit people, not to gain search engine rankings, in the top Search results.  Content relevance is all about your audience’s perception of your content’s pertinence to topics, issues, needs, or interests.  Content usefulness refers to your content’s ability to help users make decisions or make progress toward goals.  Useful content is in demand and what is deemed to be useful is judged by your audience.  Understanding your target audience is absolutely vital if you want a successful blog.  Identifying exactly who you are trying to reach through your blog will help you generate blog ideas, find more readers and build a stronger following.  Knowing as much information as possible about your target audience can help you understand your readers, and this will help you create a more loyal following and build better relationships.  Knowing your audience helps you to make decisions about what information you should include, how you should arrange that information, and what kind of supporting details will be necessary for the reader to understand what you are presenting.  The writing process is something that no two people do the same way.  There is no “right way” or “wrong way” to write.  It can be a very messy process, or it can be fluid where we chose the outcome and follow the steps.  When you decide to write something, you should think of what you want to say, and to whom you want to say it to.  If something is bothering you that you want to resolve, then you should write about that.

Content written about Blogging can be useful to many bloggers, but it really depends on the amount of experience that the writer has with the subject and how deep you go into it.  I think that Music blogs are useful, because I think there is a story behind every song.  Everyone has their own identity and own interests and some of the more popular topics are: Food, Cooking, Recipes, Travel, Nature, Culture, Humor, Entertainment, Movies, Lifestyle, Adventure, Environment, Education, Self-Improvement, Fitness, Health, Beauty, Fashion, Photography, Art, Books, Literature, Reading, Fiction, Writing, Poetry, Love, Creativity, Inspiration, Religion, Politics, Family, Relationships, Sports, Work, Social Media, History, Design, Science, Technology, Internet and Mental Health.