IN THE THREE MONTH OR SO SINCE THIS PARTICULAR BLOG SUPPLANTED MY FORMER SUCH, BY NAME AND STYLEE OF the daily phosdex, Your Correspondent has been trying his best to make The Exaggerator the best blog as he could make it under his dyslexic circumstances, and the limitations he has in trying to get it noticed.

Even if it means using message boards on certain blogs to make note of recent items of quasi-relevant interest, in some cases @ the risk of being banned from same.

Using BlogMad and the Bloggers' Choice Awards as a way to attract interest among fellow bloggers.

Tweaking the meta tags and its close companion, Search Engine Optimisation, to make such noticed in the search engines and directories.

The FeedFlare from FeedBurner @ the end of essays (appearence of which is subject to delay), not to mention the RSS feed (or trying to).

And using "snail" mail (a/k/a letterpost), rather than the highly-disreputable "bulk e-mail marketing" (as the spamming trade prefers gilding the lily, so to speak, for creating an aura of legitimacy therefor), as a marketing tool--particularly so to motels under independent ownership as opposed to the major chains. (Why that is--well, it just came to me.)

With that in mind, this requires tweaking things around just to get things right--and, hopefully, generate the traffic he wants attracted to a blog which may not quite be what blog readers expect from the blogosphere, especially coming from a dyslexic with mental problems precluding more traditional lines of employment like myself.

Said problems placing him on disability benefit for the most part as income goes, no doubt requiring the Virtual Tip Jar and online shopping in this blog as ways (howbeit unsuccessful to the moment) to add value to same and supplement his income pending his coming into money.

Let alone explaining why it is that I write this blog as I do--put another way, epitomising the message of a T-shirt slogan from around 1979-80:

"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance ...
baffle them with bull."

As in defying the stereotype expecting those deemed "mentally defective" not to have general ideas of any kind, let alone "unhealthy obsessions" with "petty frivolous matters***of no real interest to the average person;" hence, expecting me and my kind to:

• act stupid to the point of, yet stopping short of, Village Idiot types, if only to "protect the status quo" more than anything else;
• write bland, dry and simple-sounding sentences using, for the most part, two- and three-syllable words in a stylee not unlike the "What I Did on My Summer Vacation" essays from the back-to-school times of our school days;
• use what amounts to a simple Newspeak in writing and conversation, not to mention practicing doublethink "to avoid later disappointments;"
• consider America as, in effect, the world, and vice versa, for the sake of framing one's opinions and thoughts;
• ignore "petty issues" such as real or suspected consumer fraud or scam offers to "avoid adding unnecessary work" upon the apropos channels "who probably know enough about these issues already without your only adding to it, only delaying things all the more;"
• maintain a low profile as is all the lower (in effect acting according to stereotype); and
• not have "outspoken" opinions as could trigger alarms with welfare agencies to the point of cutting or otherwise cancelling benefits, or otherwise being put on secretly-circulated "watch lists" of persons "not to be trusted" (in other words, consider Fox Prolefeed the only credible source of news and information, and accept their Weltanschauung as fact without question or reservation).

Failure to "play along" being seen as "clear and present evidence of serious mental disorders" enough to require an automatic and arbitrary prescription of "approriate" anti-psychotics and "advice" to participate in "classes" in "behaviour modification" and "attitude adjustment."

Failing that, "strongest possible advice" to begin incompetence proceedings in the courts.

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ENOUGH, DOUBTLESS, TO EXPLAIN WHY I, FOR ONE, CHOOSE TO DEFY STEREOTYPES AND TILT @ WINDMILLS when it comes to "mental defectives" in weblog form.

Explaining the choice of language I use, even if it means pushing the boundaries thereof (yet stopping short of resorting to the Seven Dirty Words and their variants to make my point).

Does this answer your questions, readers?

As if that weren't enough, what exactly prevents showing your support for this weblog for once?