Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Rustic
I wish when people thought of submitting thoughtful criticism, they had some kind of foreshadowing of what I’m going to ignore versus what might possibly capture my attention. I’ll make it real simple: I have a lot of trouble relating to others, bordering on functional schizophrenia, and if I write something that’s hard to read, that’s something I’d like to know. You’ve got better-than-even odds that I’m completely freakin’ clueless as to the difficulty “real” people have in muddling through this hulking monstrosity of a sentence/paragraph/passage I just wrote; in fact, it’s not too remote a possibility that I’m obliviously proud of how crystal-clear I was.
Now, once I’ve surmounted that daunting hurdle of thinking I’m easy-to-understand, and actually being easy-to-understand — not a simple task — comments about my style, are like…well, let me put it this way. I was recently lectured by an ex that I need to “get over it” and get married. That is, to the new squeeze, not her. And I’m like, what??? Do you have ANY idea how stunningly worthless this little opinion happens to be. Okay, duly noted…and filed.
What can I say. Some advice is precious. It doesn’t necessarily follow that all advice is.
Anyway, I digress. The point is, some people want everything on the “innernets” to be a certain way. Some guy writes in a blog that nobody reads anyway…he fails to conform to some notion of “style”…and a missive must be sent out to him, so that he may conform. The Internet must be brought in line one blog at a time, I guess.
For those folks, a little dose of perspective to shake things up. Found out about it via The Whore, who is always worth a glimpse whatever she’s wearing. Emerald Bile .
I found the post from March 25 highly entertaining.
if I hear anyone saying “Is it just me, or…..” or “Am I the only one who…” then I move away from them as fast as I can.
And, by the way, the answer to those questions is “No” and “No”, because invariably, the things that these cunts believe themselves to be the only ones saying, doing or thinking, are incredibly mundane things that half the population say,do or think as well. And even if these “AM I the only one” types happen to be boasting about slightly rarer traits than usual, like : “Am I the only one who collects feathers” or: “Am I the only one who enjoys being bitten by dogs”, you can bet that there still are other people who do those very things as well, because the world is enormous.
Right on. One of my pet peeves, too.
Is it just me, or am I the only one who thinks that makes you sound like a pretentious, spoiled-brat high-school sophomore valley girl?
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In my experience, that verbal nonsense is a passive-aggressive trick that some people use to get people to say “oh no no, it’s not just you” and then share something. I hate it.
- aup | 08/12/2006 @ 08:01