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...
People tell me there is something wrong with my blog, because this post or that post has too many commas in it, or has unclean pronoun reference. Or, this group of sentences here toward the end of a paragraph, don’t really add anything.
You know what? I agree with all of them.
But I still tell them to stick it. When I write these things, more often than not I’m dealing with all kinds of distractions…people asking me “does this dress make me look fat”…what was the name of that movie we saw back in whenever…what should I do when I get this error message. It isn’t a structured editing process by any means. You know what my editing process looks like? I get done with fighting the editor, I hit “publish,” I get the little WordPress spinning wheel thing. And after about five seconds I say out loud “well go fuck yourself, I’m going to get another cup of coffee.” Then I get myself another cup of coffee, by which time it’s usually finished and I view the home page and scan it for some obvious, reprehensible, offensive to God and Creation itself errors of all kinds.
Then I say, enough-is-enough-is-enough and I shower up and go to work.
Point is, if I held off on publishing anything that had yet to run through a proper editing cycle, I’d never write anything.
On more than one occasion, I have gotten the distinct impression that is the point. I get the feeling there is this sentiment out there: “I have thoughts I have not been allowed to express, or have been unable to express, or have been too lazy to express…and if I can’t express anything, nobody else should be able to either.”
Also, on more than one occasion, I have noticed the people who provide the distractions to me while I’m trying to write something, are the same people who provide these “helpful” criticisms once it’s put together so they can see it.
You know, I can tolerate criticism all day and night. It’s jealousy I can’t stand.
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So, when you start referring to your fiancee in the plural form, is that similar to the Royal “We?”
I know I go back and edit stuff a day or more later.
BTW, “We” are much amused.
- Moshe Ben-David | 04/07/2011 @ 21:05No, “we” means me. We’re paying a sort of homage to Taranto with that one.
- mkfreeberg | 04/07/2011 @ 21:08As someone who just unmercifully butchers the English language constantly…carry on, Morgan, you’ve never, and will never, hear it from me.
Now, if you want my 2 cents on length of articles…or font size/backround color as being hard to read for aging eyes…
- tim | 04/08/2011 @ 06:41Oh, is it? I actually wouldn’t mind hearing about that. I’ve been told before my color sensitivity is unusual. Hear it pretty much constantly from guys at work, whenever someone has to read what’s on a screen after I’ve set it up.
I changed the foreground (font) color from {R=64 G=32 B=128} to {R=50 G=25 B=100} back when we moved on to this new domain…thought that would make it a little easier, in a subtle sort of way. I’m afraid the background is somewhat set in stone because of the images I’ve embedded over the years, some of them are built to blend in to the background. As far as font color, would a pure blue be easier to read?
- mkfreeberg | 04/08/2011 @ 07:07Also, for those who might not be aware, ctrl and +sign will zoom in.
- mkfreeberg | 04/08/2011 @ 07:08Not only am I jealous of your ability to express your thoughts, but I am heretowith composing a missive to be directed to my duly elected municipal representative to proclaim my vehement opposition to your continued gurgitations.
- Jason | 04/08/2011 @ 07:11When Morgan is an old man, he shall wear purple. 🙂
I’m pretty much the same way. My blog is for expressing ideas and thoughts — getting them down on “paper” if you will — for future reference and for anyone else who might stumble across it. A few of my ideas have gotten wide circulation through links, and those alone are worth me stepping up to the stump and … stumping.
If I miss a period or misspell something or spell
GadaffiKhadaffiGhadaffiQuadaffiwhat-the-hell ever inconsistently, I’m mostly interested in being clear. If you get the point, its purpose has been served. I try to correct obvious grammar mistakes and spelling mistakes and even the occasional logic mistake as I go along.If I got something wrong, I’ll go back and edit it and overstrike what was wrong (leaving the text in) and if appropriate correct it with more words. I’m wrong sometimes, it turns out (who’d’a thunk? Really! Me???)
- philmon | 04/08/2011 @ 07:23“Also, for those who might not be aware, ctrl and +sign will zoom in.”
Thank you…editor-in-chief. MUCH better.
BTW, considering the likes of the NY Times and the rest of the professional rags, this and any other blog that occasionally does something wrong in the grammar department is but a blip on the radar screen covering the universe of ideas and opinions. If I can read and understand what you’re saying, the rest is inconsequential.
- tim | 04/08/2011 @ 10:26