FROM ASYLUM.COM:
Clichés are omnipresent in our ADD society. From The New York Times to Bazooka Joe, we just can’t stop till we get enough. Here on the information superhighway it is even more pronounced. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, James Frey has a LOT of fans in blogging: derivative, hackneyed, predictable, a favorite of Oprah … wait, that’s the president. But let us be clear, blogging is a cliché hotbed. The collision of blogs with political and popular culture is the perfect storm of bad writing. Uber annoying.

Well, every dog has his day, and today is Cliché Day on the Internet. In honor of the occasion, Asylum has compiled a list of some of the worst best blogging clichés EVAH!

In Which I:
In which we suggest that the “in which I” construction has had its 15 minutes. Seriously. In which it was enough. In which it has been beaten to death. In which it is so worn out, even mocking it is annoying. The breathless overuse of this form in blogs must be stopped at any cost.

Breathless
Breathless prose, breathless objections, breathless reporting. We don’t know if this is a result of Global Warming, but we think it is high time we get some air back. We’ve had it up to here. Start breathing, ladies and gentlemen. Hey bloggers, Danielle Steele called, she wants her imagery back.

Hey the Internet, the Real World Called, They Want Their Suck Back
“Hey [blank], the [blank] called” jokes are really starting to get our goat. This one is most often used to call out or attack other clichés, which we think may cause a rift in the space-time continuum. If you’re going to snark at someone for using a worn-out joke, try not to do it with a worn-out joke. You actually made us throw up in our mouths a little just now.

I Just Threw Up in My Mouth
I just threw up in my mouth, I just peed myself a little, I think my bowels just moved … Yes, that describes last Saturday morning pretty effectively, but it is as worn out as Internet jokes get. It’s in blogs, it’s in the comments sections. Snark isn’t so snarky when it’s so overused, last time I checked. Snark FAIL.

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