A while back I got a guest book note from rougereviews with an invitation to sumit a review request. It took an exceedingly long time from time of request to time of review, you see Kathy is the sole reviewer of that review site and she really takes time and goes into detail in her reviews. So, like all good things, her reviews in particular will take time and in my opinion it was well worth the wait. As usual I'll post the review in her words and add my comments after:�

liquid-mojo

[http://liquid-mojo.diaryland.com | v.liquid-fade 1.8.1]

Username: I quite like your username. It sounds insanely cool and I've always liked the word "liquid." (5/5)

Title: It's kind of long. If it were just liquid-fade, it'd be much better (to me). (3/5)

First Sight: Ohmygoodness, moving picture on top left hand corner (I like the drinks best) and middle has white squiggles.. Finally know it's a face of woman. Awesome. (10/10)

Your Sacrifice: Nice job here. And it's cool how you have faded words on top of Archive page that get white when running mouse over it. (8/8)

Sparkling Diamond: You know, I don't usually like black diaries, but this one rocks. And it just impresses me more that you've made it yourself. It's just so well made and I wish I knew that much HTML. I think I want to link you as a favorite based on the layout alone. There's a lot of things going on, but it's not cluttered at all, links are a nice color especially with a black backdrop, the way pages fade into another is wonderful and adds to the entire atmosphere, the cross-hair is my favorite.. And you have a banner that says your diary url and running mouse over it, it spotlights where-ever you touch. Plus I love the font you have for [navigation] and the links. Then you have extras in 2 different drop-down menus -- still easy to navigate. How do you do all this? It completely and utterly astounds me. I am in true awe of your layout. (27/25)

Guestbook: Fine. (4/2)

Readability: The font is a teeny bit small, but still all right. (4/5)

The Love: I started with this and you continue to impress me with your total honesty, style of writing and extremely detailed. Oh I just love reading your words! You obviously think a lot and this shows in your diary. You analyze quite a bit and it's beautiful to see. You're great at describing anything from your username, sign, etc. Even if you only have a sentence or two about it, it's enough and it's spoken well. And although some topics I don't have much experience in, you made it vivid and I could imagine or at least not feel un-interested about it. Practically every subject you bring up strikes a chord in me, not always because I can relate to it, but because of the way you convey everything: thoughts, emotions, etc, in whatever you choose to write. You're intelligent and kind, empathetic and passionate, deep and sexual (what can I say, you�re a Scorpio!), just a real feeler and I love that it one hundred percent shows in your entries.

I would agree with you about Reloaded not surpassing the first movie (link) and I disliked that it was so much sexier. I think the first one was a lot more classy, classic and tasteful.

I smiled at this: "Then again some females may find my maleness sexy, if so I would definitely like their phone numbers and discuss this point further." Soo, email me so we can discuss, um, all aspects of this review and much more.

For the most part, your sentences are long, containing more than one comma and sometimes when they're like that, it makes it hard to keep up sometimes. But I still love that you go into great detail about most things. Your writing style is exceptionally mature, sophisticated and enviable.

Well, you haven't reviewed for Sweet Reviews so I guess you decided against it.

You go into detail describing your emotions as well. So much excruciating detail (and people say I'm too detailed.. I will now direct them to your site). It wasn't boring though, not in the least bit. I found a lot of the comments funny and quite entertaining.

I review at Sweet Reviews as well, and I read that really long entry about it here. I can understand how you feel about wanting the content and emotions score to be higher. I don't believe the review was completely fair, because even if someone doesn't agree with everything a diarist says, if the writing is good quality, it's good quality. And you have put emotion, all kinds in your entries. It kind of seemed like Gumphood was judging you more than your diary. I don't know though because I haven't read the same entries he did. So you probably improved...

I have to say I couldn't agree with you more in this entry because I despise it when others don't respond to a comment or compliment.

Okay, I want you to write what you want to write. It's your diary, don't let anyone make you change the content or whatever if you don't feel right about it. You do a tremendous job writing about your feelings and thoughts and contemplations. You're unfailingly open and honest. Most people wouldn't dare even think about writing some of the things you do. I applaud you many times.

Ahh, you like the "There is no remedy for love but to love more" quote as well. I used that as my quote for the yearbook senior year.

Ohmygoodness, I hope your grandma will be okay. She sounds too sweet.

How could anyone give you a low content score? (60/50)

Grammar: In the first quote under Favorite Quote, two words are misspelled. And suficciently unwonund, neghiborhood more than a couple of times, and other spelling errors. (8/10)

Glitter: 100 things, so much is there. Quite graphic at times too. But nice job on writing it. Your portfolio is very cool too. Your philosophy page is great too. Quizzes, link to you, reviews (and you're always so detailed about them but for some like Utter, USA, Diary Reviews you haven't put the standard "My Review" "My Comments" like you have for the first four, but I like how you did it like that so make sure reviews under pending are really that), quotations, links, and much much more. (15/15)

Extra Credit: Three for self-designed layout, two for unique extras, and one because you are the epitome of something amazing. (6/5)

Lasting Impression: Oh yea. (10/10)

Will I Come Back?: Most definitely. Update again soon. (10/10)

Total: 170/160

Number of Entries Read: First few entries, May, June, July 2003.

Favorite Entry: Are you kidding? I couldn't pick just one! But I particularly liked this one

Favorite Quote: The screename I picked, liquid-mojo in a way is an idealized version of myself. I'm normally the reserved quiet type, but after a few drinks I turn into this smooth flirtatious guy with lessened inhibitions towards the opposite sex. My drink of choice is Vodka Martini, preferably a premium brand like Grey Goose, shaken till ice cold taken straight up with a twist. In essence it's my "liquid mojo".

I don't know what it is exactly about a martini, but to me it's one of the sexiest drinks to ever touch my hand, bless my lips and wet my throat. When imbibed I am somehow freed of my strongest inhibitions. Suddenly, I can make women melt with my gaze, the words that have been held back like water behind a dam flow out much more freely, like the gradual releasing of floodgates. My hands and my body become facilitators of my chemistry, I touch and hold more often and the boundaries of my personal space become weakened and dissolved. I sometimes wish that feeling within me could last forever, that I could be the man that I am when I am inebriated. Until something like that happens, how can I not love the way that elixir endows its spirit onto my being? It has and always will be my "liquid mojo"...

All it took was one look into the bride's beautiful deep-blue eyes and my heart melted instantaneously. She looked at me the way she used to back when we were together. It made my heart skip and I at that moment I knew that if she were to ever ask me back into her life I would do so in a heartbeat, despite the pain I felt when we stopped seeing each other.

I want to make a profound connection with someone and I want to do it on all levels: intellectually, sexually, emotionally and spiritually and more and more it seems the 'net has proven one of the worst ways, at least for me, to seek a connection of that level of profundity. I guess the big question would be where do I go from here? I really have no idea where to go...

Comments: Someday I hope you'll include me as a friend you've met online.

I want to put a passage from Conversations With God (part 2, I think), for your benefit and others:: "So choose sex -- all the sex you can get! YET do not choose sex instead of love, but as a celebration of it."
And this:: "Procreation is the happy after-affect, not the logical fore-thought, of most human sexual experience. The idea that sex is only to make babies is na�ve, and the corollary thought that sex should therefore stop when the last child is conceived is worse than na�ve. It violates human nature -- and that is the nature I gave you. Sexual expression is the inevitable result of an eternal process of attraction and rhythmic energy flow which fuels all of life."
Both from the same source.

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Reviewed by: Kathy

It still amazes me how some reviewers, aside from admiring certain aspects of my diary layout, can almost completely not relate to my writing, while with others it almost instantly "clicks". I know my diary and my writing will never have any "universal" appeal. I know because individual tastes are just too varied for that to happen. Because of the nature of the things I write, I will almost invariably rub someone the wrong way. This has been proven in past reviews.�

With that in mind I become truly appreciative, if not slightly embarrassed at the almost unqualified praise I received from Kathy in her review of my diary. *blush*� I do think a lot and I dwell and I ponder and I think again. Not everybody catches that. For some reason people seem to pick up on my fiending� for sexual gratification more than anything else and I guess I can't blame them because I do crave sex constantly and when I do I write about it.��

What gets me is when when people tell me I have no substance in my writing and/or that I write about nothing but� (or too much about) sex while entries, like the ones concerning struggles with the deaths of my family or my personal difficulties in life or even my outwardly linked "extra" pages such as my philosophy page seem to go virtually unnoticed. I guess the only positive things to come out of that it that it has made me question myself as a person and as a writer and I think my writing, in some ways, has evolved because of it without losing touch of the person I am on the inside.

All in all, I guess my diary is just like any other diary or perhaps any other thing in life, one gets out of it what one puts into it. If a person chooses to only scratch the surface one will only find things that are superficial. If one chooses to delve deeply then one may find things that are profound. It's all there in black and white in my diary. It is an open book. My life, my pain and suffering and my joy. The hope that I possess the wisdom to appreciate each passing moment both good and bad and the hope that my tomorrows will be more blessed than my yesterdays. This is what I strive for my diary to be like more than anything else and for for the perceptive few they will catch those moments where my diary shines in that way.

I believe Kathy is one of those people who delves profoundly and I feel truly privileged to receive her review and all the praise that has come with it. It's not so much the scoring anymore because I have already received a few better-than-perfect scores as it is having my diary and my writing appreciated on such a level and the feeling that someone actually connects to what I write.

I especially appreciate the quotes from the book Conversations with God.� I know this is a huge tangent but it's a significant one. Although I was raised as a Catholic, as my knowledge expanded and my ability to think independently crystallized, I began questioning my faith turning more and more into an agnostic leaning towards atheism. My belief system revolved more and more around scientific thought such as biology, chemistry, physics, etc. I became more and more wary of any belief system that demanded blind faith especially in light of and sometimes even contrary to modern scientific thought. God was always in the back of my mind but more as a supposition, a hypothesis and/or curiosity than anything else. My spirituality and my faith really came into full swing after I read that book. I finally had an explanation of the universe, of God, of the meaning of life that made sense and did not contradict modern established scientific thought.

I haven't gotten as far as book 2 yet but the quotes Kathy selected from that book couldn't be more relevant. ;) Anyway it seems I've just rambled on and on (I tend to do that often) so I'll wrap things up. Kathy, thank you for all the time you spent reviewing my diary and all the positive things you had to say about it. Even if it's just a handful of people that appreciates what I'm doing with my diary it just makes it that much more worthwhile. We will definitely keep in touch and if friendship is what you are seeking I think we are definitely off to a great start...