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...
Yeah, that’s a good rule.
I subconsciously follow it…sometimes. Not always. I harbor a suspicion that there’s a correlation between my breakage of this rule, and that frustrating occurrence of critics telling me there’s something that can be improved, but they can’t or won’t say what.
Of course the real question that comes up, is what do you do with a conflict between 3-notice and some other rule that is more established; in other words, someone has taken the trouble to write it down. Does 3-notice yield? Or does it reign supreme?
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I harbor a suspicion that there’s a correlation between my breakage of this rule, and that frustrating occurrence of critics telling me there’s something that can be improved, but they can’t or won’t say what.
Eh. For the most part critics can suck it. Not because I’m some kind of fantastically gifted natural wordsmith, but because most of those “there’s something off about this post” comments can be translated to “I don’t like what you’re saying but don’t want to come right out and admit it because I have no counter” or “tl;dr.”
If I had fully-developed insights, expressed with such force and clarity that people would go out of their way to read them as ex cathedra pronouncements, I’d be getting paid for it. Most everything I write represents a stab at articulating an idea, or even my first go at developing an idea. I think most bloggers are this way — see above. So no shit, Sherlock, this might not be the pure Incarnate Word I’m typing here. And yeah, sentences like “Barack Obama is a tinpot wannabe tyrant with an IQ on par with his hacktastic golf handicap” are probably not the most elegant of expressions. But they’re effective for their purpose, which is to get the germ of an idea down on paper so I can work through it more thoroughly, ideally with some kind of constructive feedback….
- Severian | 05/31/2013 @ 09:43