Mentality of a Blogger

I had a rather interesting Media and Society lecture today. (M 'n' S is basically a theory unit that looks at how the media theoretically interacts with people, theoretically speaking). It was a revision session on New Media, like blogging, networking and the like. As i case study, we listened to a Podcast about some guy who talked to a fellow blogger from Technocrati, about Kevin Ray Underwood.

For those oblivious to the existence of this person, some illumination for you: He is a 26-year-old man from Oklahoma who kidnapped, killed, and planned to cannibalise a 10 year old girl who lived near him, hes currently facing trial (I think). Basics can be gleaned from Wikipedia. Don't worry, i only found out who he was today as well.

Anyway, this Podcast guy talked with his blogger friend (the names escape me) about ol' Kev, and the stereotypes that come out of it are just hilarious. Apparently, being a virgin makes you psychopath, (shit) as does playing RPG games, (shit) and fantasising (sheeeeeeet). It's also now apparent that Blogging may very well get you laid. (yes!) To be honest, the guys sounded like surfers anyway (duuuude), and talked about how "he was just a normal guy, you know" "bit of a loner, shy, had his first kiss at 22, was a virgin" "He rented the same movies as us though, i mean wow!" - that kind of thing. Jackasses.

Central focus of the interview? The guy was a blogger, had been for several years. Apparently this is a "first", because we now look into the mind of a killer!....yeh, i think not. Looking at his two blogs, the only thing that can be cleaned from his brain is that he knows some Japanese, and that hes an uninspired blogger. (I mean come one, headlines?) I'd just like to note that the fact that his blog has the exact same colour format as me is worrying. Makeover time?

Makes you wonder though, just what is the mentality of a blogger? Can you tell do you reckon? Creepy fact; the randomly generated Blogger question for Kev was about Cannibalism. I bet it was their fault.