California Is A Recipe For A Black Hole, or so says MoJo Shivers the author of our final “Famer” for the year 2008, and the last of the “Should Be Famer’s” from my original blogging reads.

California is a Recipe For a Black Hole was one of my first reads in the land of blogs. The author was one of my original/sole commenters as well, back in the day when people didn’t scramble for Techorati and Google rankings and the only thing anyone was even remotely concerned about was their ecosystem rating in TLB. MoJo is one of the few who has remained true to the original intent of his blog. He writes what he wants. He doesn’t concern himself with what others want to read, or how his first paragraph will affect his search engine rankings. He doesn’t follow people throughout the blogesphere leaving random useless comments hoping to scrounge up a reader or two. He is blogging pure. If I’m not mistaken he may even still be sporting his original template.

Through this blog you will become familiar with a character who loves the Red Sox, follows Rilo Kiley, and would probably be comfortable living his life in Victorian Nova Scotia — obsessed with Avonlea as he is. A romantic and a perfectionist, you will read about relationships which were, or which could have been. You’ll be privy to the author’s thoughts as he wanders through the why’s and what if’s. You see clearly his attitude, his mood, his habits. You will become familiar with his most unattractive personalty traits.

California is a Recipe For a Black Hole contains fiction, stories of life and feelings. You get to know the characters through storytelling, their poetry, and their conversations. There are several characters now, “breasier” and the fairly recently introduced young “dw”, however, MoJo Shivers, aka Patrick, is the driving force behind the blog. There is no pretense here, you get what you get, the author doesn’t pretend to be a nice guy, doesn’t hide his most unattractive traits to make you love him more, but it’s precisely because of this you do.

Grab a cuppa something and check out California is a Recipe for a Black Hole. You’ll be glad you did.

If you’ve been blogging since August 2004, taken a few breaks in between, the most recent break because your wife and son happed to be in a severe automobile accident, come back, and people are still reading you, you can be pretty certain you have a good thing going.

As is the case with our “Famer” this week. Indie, and his blog The Synchronicity of Indeterminacy.

Self described as “Found Photo Stories: Life and Art Linked by Photographs A study in creativity, this site features one-minute short stories inspired by found photos, an idea based on the “Indeterminacy” recordings by John Cage, pairing one-minute short stories with random sounds.”

Indie, as most who read his blog know him, an American living in Europe since the late 1980’s, began his blog experiment in August 2004 . His introduction , written on August 12th 2004, is highly suggested reading. The complete explanation of the concept is as fascinating as this unique and entertaining concept blog itself.

Every so often, or as time allows these days, Indie posts a photo, sometimes artwork, to his blog, requesting people write brief one minute stories in the comments, eventually Indie returns, posts his story, reads the stories in the comments and comments himself, while commenter’s return to read his story, and to comment on the mini stories of others. Yes quite a little crowd there at times.

Indie does great justice to all photos with his writings, would there be just that it would be more than enough, but there is the added benefit of being able to post your own brief story, while reading the tiny stories of others.

Indie’s story genre’s vary, the photos are unique, and more often than not the ending is clever and usually unexpected.

An extremely entertaining, original blog with a loyal, literate, but not without their idiosyncrasies, following. You will not fail to enjoy the brief stories developed from Indie’s discoveries.

I have been reading Indie for some time, again one of the first blogs I read, and one of the few of that time period I am still reading.

A blog more than worthy of “famer” status, please welcome The Synchronicity of Indeterminacy to the blogroll and head on over to write a short of your own.