I love teens’ blogs. It’s so entertaining to watch the writers grow up and it’s extra fun to find teen blogs that could have been written by yourself years ago.
One of my favorite teenager blogs, which I will not link for fear of embarrassing the author, is by a young woman much more hip than I ever was in high school. She listens to all the right music and has hair that she will not look back on and regret. She’s pretty much just a small adult. Well, with one exception: she loves being weird. Here’s an example: “Today in English Spencer and Julie told me that i’m strange. I told them to give me 7 reasons, and they did. So I guess I have no choice but to believe them.”
It cracks me up to read about her “What? I’m weird?” experiences, and remember my days as a teen, when I’d run around doing intentionally weird things, and then make a big defiant show over wondering why people were staring. What, is it really that weird that a friend and I go to Safeway in full costume, during an intermission of a play we were both in? We just wanted, like, ice cream. Stop staring. Is it really that weird that Susannah and Katherine and I used to steal rich kids’ big wheels to ride down big hills? (Have I really never written about that? I can’t find it anywhere if I have.) Yes, it was that weird, and I knew it. And I loved it. It’s part of the joy of being a teen: you live for negative attention, and you love to be indignant about it.
So, tell me: what are YOUR favorite teenager blogs?
Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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dani
December 22nd, 2002 at 10:39 pm
oh dear god if blogs had been around when ariel was a teen… :p
dani
December 22nd, 2002 at 10:39 pm
oops that face looks grossed out. more like ;D
The Mighty Jimbo
December 23rd, 2002 at 12:03 am
Don’t know any. Can you recommend a few?
Amaranta
December 23rd, 2002 at 1:05 am
try mine… I like it, as do many of my friends
kool keith
December 23rd, 2002 at 8:31 am
is it sad that I knew right away what blog you were referring to? I mean, I had to check for the quote, but I was pretty sure. She does listen to the right music though. hehe.
leblanc
December 23rd, 2002 at 11:45 am
i don’t read any teen blogs…. i think i’m immature enough as it is.
ramsey
December 23rd, 2002 at 4:14 pm
Hi Ariel, I read your blog all the time, but I never (maybe once?) comment (too shy I guess?) any who! The best teen blog belongs to Jon @ http://www.postsonic-shock.com He is an artist, way cool, and a very good coherent writer. He has real problems in his life, like his parents suspecting that he is gay (he has not come out to them yet and is scared they will find out) a brother that is a coke head, and kids at school calling him a f*g. His blog is definitly a commentary on American life in the South and our attitudes toward people who are different than us.
Brenda
December 30th, 2002 at 2:34 pm
Popscratch. This girl’s in high school and she’s insanely prolific.