All Things Chill

Michael Gorman wrote a nasty “bloggers are imbeciles” article in the Library Journal. This shit pisses me off. Here’s his opening paragraph:

A blog is a species of interactive electronic diary by means of which the unpublishable, untrammeled by editors or the rules of grammar, can communicate their thoughts via the web. (Though it sounds like something you would find stuck in a drain, the ugly neologism blog is a contraction of “web log.”) Until recently, I had not spent much time thinking about blogs or Blog People.

We that’s nice. Start it off with a positive note. Let’s read on shall we?

Who are the Blog People?

It is obvious that the Blog People read what they want to read rather than what is in front of them and judge me to be wrong on the basis of what they think rather than what I actually wrote. Given the quality of the writing in the blogs I have seen, I doubt that many of the Blog People are in the habit of sustained reading of complex texts. It is entirely possible that their intellectual needs are met by an accumulation of random facts and paragraphs. In that case, their rejection of my view is quite understandable.

Hm. This sounds like a rant Michael. A rant that could quite possibly fit in an ‘electronic dictionary devoid of any editorial criticism’. Did you have someone look @ this article? I’m sure you did. Oh you have someone that gets paid to do that? Wonderful, good for you. Are you conveying your thoughts on the web? Hm. What does that mean, I wonder…

And what is with this “straw-man” argument that you will understand if bloggers will reject your views? Of course I’m disagreeing with your cocky ass statement. Yes, I do read and enjoy the small “blogsphere” that I belong to. And yes, I do love the randomness that the Internets bring. I choose what I want to read ON AND OFF line. That’s not being ignorant… that’s adhering to my fucking preferences. And last I checked, doing what makes you happy doesn’t exactly break any moral laws.

Look. I know there are boring, incoherent, grammatically/politically incorrect blogs out there. And I’m probably blowing this way out of proportion, but when someone from @|{@|)3|/|/|1@ attacks something he/she doesn’t understand, it eats away at my very core.

Did you like writing that ‘rant’ Michael? Didn’t it give you some kind of satisfaction knowing that you have written something that represents who you are and what you feel at that exact moment? Welcome to our world. ASS.

~Spec

P.S. LOL. It may not seem like it, but I’m uber-chill here in warm and sunny Houston. MMMMMMMMMMMM. RIBS!!!

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