Voice Post

            Although it was a bit tricky to find a blog with a distinct voice, I think I found one with a more somber tone which comes from the way he presents his day at possibly his last Ultimate Frisbee tournament.  The blog is called Parinella's blog and it talks about many facets of the Ultimate Frisbee experience.  The author also displays his go with the flow personality that seems to stick with him throughout his Ultimate career. The blog author starts with a quote of himself about the fact that he was thinking of hanging up his Ultimate Frisbee cleats.  The quote gives a sense of his personality through his reflection of his previous self and his change of heart.  It gives the reader a quick background of his relationship to the game without divulging too much information.  After the big self quote he says “Another year, another Nationals”; although his shows his love for the game you get a sense that he is almost tired out by the sport, and maybe the culture and people.  From this phrase, he doesn't seem to be overly excited to play on his team in pretty big tournament, the National Championships.  This is NOT the normal sentiment towards Ultimate where there is a giddy feeling to getting on that nationals field.  A line that stood out from the section on his physical condition was “my neck muscles are sore now” because it adds to sense of his weariness in the game physically and mentally.  Phrases alluding to what used to happen give a sense of his beloved pastime like “Wife and son stayed home this year. Just me and 1500 of my closest friends”.  This sentence also reveals a bit of sarcasm because he is generalizing all of the Ultimate community as his friends even though he sees the people changing and the culture changing.

            On a more general note, he uses short sentences to show his emotion to whatever situation he is speaking about.  Some examples are “Second game was uneventful” or “I don't know what's next.” Or “it’s all good”.  These tid bits give his writing a flare off his personality, it gives him a laid back and go with the flow kind of feeling, which kind of ties to the beginning of his post where he says “Another year, another Nationals” right after his story about his last time he was going to play competitive Ultimate.  The section about the “beer tent” also brings out his go with the flow and spontaneous personality because of the way he phrases visiting the tent: “just to see who was there” and to drink “gunni”.  This shows that he is kind of re-living his good old days.

            His last paragraph almost merge these two personality traits of being happy to play if anyone else wants to play and accepting the fact that he isn't going to play Ultimate for too much longer. He displays a lot of nostalgia and sadness through his word choice like “get the band back” and “it’s all good” and “it is what it is”.  I think these word choice decisions also show the loss of the capability to choose to play or not, it is out of his hands.