Blogs
I have been writing, editing and contributing to a number of blogs since 2003. Here they are.
Current
Jalopnik
February 2009 –
Hyperleggera
June 2008 –
Past
Mars forgatni
July 2008 – January 2009
Judapest
December 2004 – January 2009
Belsőség
December 2005 – February 2008
Kispad
June 2006 – July 2006
This is a Hungarian community blog I was invited to guestblog at in the summer of 2006. Of note is an overview of wetshaving I wrote which has become the de facto shavegeek forum in Hungary and has received over fourteen hundred comments. It is active to this very day.
Mohó Hiéna
October 2005 – December 2006
Mohó Hiéna—which translates to greedy hyena—was a blog for giving away automotive gifts received by the staff of Totalcar, the car magazine I worked at between 2005 and 2008. It was updated on most workdays. Every item was accompanied by a photo and a short description. Readers had to answer a question about the day’s item to win it and most questions were phrased to encourage quirky answers. I handled the process of mailing the items as well.
The descriptions quickly morphed into blog posts about pretty much everything which could indirectly be tied to the gifts. Hiéna formed the foundation for my later hit blog Belsőség.
Due to a technical glitch, very little of the archives are available online.
Kzamm Demolition Network
November 2004 – November 2006
This was a personal blog I wrote in English for two years about, as the tagline put it, automobile fetish, breakfast perfectionism, squids, Macs and narcissism. The automobile fetish bit later became my full-time job. The blog’s biggest hit was Phi In a Cumshot, an analysis of a magnificent pornographic photo of retired Hungarian porn diva Michelle Wild, which was posted to Fleshbot and received 10,000 views.
The post demonstrated that the picture’s magnificence is entirely due to a composition based on the golden ratio.
The Kzamm Diaries
March 2003 – November 2003
My first blog was a mostly daily narrative of observations through the eyes of Agent loop_1, a space alien from the planet Kzamm, who is here to make notes on Planet Earth then return home. It mostly touched on malfunctioning social interactions and outstanding or ludicrous design. The narrative featured a number of breaches in the agent’s professionalism, chief amongst them was getting too involved with Earthlings. This was my first major writing project in Hungarian.
In July 2003, The Kzamm Diaries was featured in the Hungarian political-cultural weekly Magyar Narancs and received a rating of five out of five stars.
A version edited by Ágnes Szentesi was published in Terra, an anthology of contemporary Hungarian science fiction and fantasy, which you can buy here.