Comedic writer Emma Kennedy shares the art of baring all on her website while maintaining dignity
emmakennedy.net
Emma Kennedy has written and performed for radio, television and theatre, specialising in comedy. She is also the author of three books, How to Bring Up Your Parents, Wilma Tenderfoot and the Case of the Frozen Hearts, and The Tent, The Bucket and Me.
With a fresh blue background and clean white font, Emma’s website, www.emmakennedy.net, is refreshingly easy on the eyes. The website is cunningly preface by the warning: “Hello. Welcome to my website. Please feel free to browse. Having said that, you must be 16 or over to enter so if you’re younger than that then please come back later (when you are).”
It’s such a great touch that I’m surprised more website designers don’t use it, simultaneously freeing up the writer to be as lurid as they choose while tantalising anyone with hopes for adult-only content.
That said, apart from a few less than child-friendly comments, the site is as clean as can be.
The homepage includes a slightly pensive looking shot of Emma, but the rest of the site is anything but pensive.
Her weblog is endearingly open, verging on brash, with plenty of toilet humour and comical observances. She also updates remarkably frequently, most days in fact, putting most other bloggers (myself included) to shame.
In one recent post she revealed the contents of a drunken conversation in which it was decided that of cats and dogs she is most definitely a dog: “and not only that but I am quite specifically a Jack Russell who can do tricks. I’m happy with that.”
I would be too.
Emma’s biography is written in the same irreverent style, while her CV lists a daunting array of achievements. The gallery is rather facebook style-ee, with the humorous comments from Emma, but sadly without the opportunity to add comments.
If you’re desperate to leave your mark, you can go to Emma’s guestbook and add any thoughts that come to mind; recent comments include one from a man who describes himself as a “semi-professional gimp.”
Other genius ways of keeping the site lively include a sidebar that automatically feeds Emma’s many tweets onto the page, so you’ll never be without a brand new insight into Emma’s gently warped mind for more than a few hours.
Unexpectedly, there’s also a link to Emma’s MySpace page, which appears to be an exact duplicate of www.emmakennedy.net, complete with identical blog entries.
Easy to read with plenty to read is a winning combination, and with Emma Kennedy’s down-to-earth and unerringly amusing outlook sported on every part of the website, it’s a joy to visit, so I will, again and again.
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