Moving Eulogy Forces Return
Since being labelled a tosspot by a complete stranger, I felt it time to overhaul this ramshackle site, streamlining it into an exocet of class and style, basically by adding another post and changing the name. It's a rebranding exercise.
I've just realised that I'm making an assumption here though. It's not just complete strangers who label me a tosspot, I'm sure. There's probably people I know that would say the same. Either way, it's the first time I've been insulted by the internet.
One thing I have noticed about the Thanet blog list (which I seem to have been enrolled on) is that people seem to drop self-referential hints that they actually socialise in real life. That makes blogging a massive neon wank festival. Do you people run into eachother in the supermarket and talk about your blogs? Why not just talk about it using your mouths and sounds (or "speaking")? What motivates people to think that they have audiences who actually care about what they write? It's easy, trust me, to sit here and painstakingly edit swathes of text until you've refined everything you've got to say into a tiny ball of potent eye poo.
That's the problem with "blogging". It's usually a cringeworthy exercise in shouting "LOOK AT ME".
There's reams of stuff out there written in the style of suffering martyrs to their own counter-culture fame. You can almost hear the deluded Morrissey-esque sigh as they find themselves forced back to shovel more of their insight onto a ravenous public, to keep the demand for their gift at manageable levels of mass hysteria. Sadly, the only people who read blogs these days are the people who write them, which disqualifies immediately from having anything worthwhile to say.
It's like a load of bald men sending eachother gift-wrapped combs. The fighting has long ceased.
Disclaimer: I think that originator of the comment may be that bloke with the spider-web tattoo on his face who's always outside the bank. If it is you, I honestly DIDN'T have any change.
I've just realised that I'm making an assumption here though. It's not just complete strangers who label me a tosspot, I'm sure. There's probably people I know that would say the same. Either way, it's the first time I've been insulted by the internet.
One thing I have noticed about the Thanet blog list (which I seem to have been enrolled on) is that people seem to drop self-referential hints that they actually socialise in real life. That makes blogging a massive neon wank festival. Do you people run into eachother in the supermarket and talk about your blogs? Why not just talk about it using your mouths and sounds (or "speaking")? What motivates people to think that they have audiences who actually care about what they write? It's easy, trust me, to sit here and painstakingly edit swathes of text until you've refined everything you've got to say into a tiny ball of potent eye poo.
That's the problem with "blogging". It's usually a cringeworthy exercise in shouting "LOOK AT ME".
There's reams of stuff out there written in the style of suffering martyrs to their own counter-culture fame. You can almost hear the deluded Morrissey-esque sigh as they find themselves forced back to shovel more of their insight onto a ravenous public, to keep the demand for their gift at manageable levels of mass hysteria. Sadly, the only people who read blogs these days are the people who write them, which disqualifies immediately from having anything worthwhile to say.
It's like a load of bald men sending eachother gift-wrapped combs. The fighting has long ceased.
Disclaimer: I think that originator of the comment may be that bloke with the spider-web tattoo on his face who's always outside the bank. If it is you, I honestly DIDN'T have any change.
2 Comments:
The person who called you a tosspot wasn't (until today) a blogger. They are also perpetually rude to everyone, so I wouldn't take it so personally if I were you.
"Sadly, the only people who read blogs these days are the people who write them, which disqualifies immediately from having anything worthwhile to say."
I guess your statement also means that by your own definition you have nothing worthwhile to say. You write eloquently so I don't think you should be so hard on yourself.
Obviously I also found you through the Thanet Blog List. As I've flicked through your other comments I wonder if you might not be happier to have people reading your blog other than those who are offering you free degrees and other such spam material. Anyway, I'm sure you could get yourself removed from said bloglist by contacting them.
I'm afraid you both have the advantage on me by appearing to be reasonably seasoned bloggers - as such I was thrown by the apparent randomness of it all.
The etiquette of these things passes me by, but your comments offer some perspective. And you're right about Costcutter, it's shite. Cheers.
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