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February 21, 2007 / Wednesday
Am I Trying To Be An Ass?
I guess I wouldn't say that I'm trying to be an ass, but my usual "don't be an ass" filter seems to be failing this week.
You see, what you read here is mostly boring. It's sanitized. Sometimes it's funny, but harmlessly so. Most of my wacky thoughts, which are often politically incorrect, insensitive, or potentially inflammatory to one or more of my readers, don't make it into the blog. They used to, but then I got a little older, a little wiser, and figured I should be a little more proper. I also realized that I have more readers than I meant to. I guess those of you who know me well or have been reading since the early days know that my posts that make you balk are usually done tongue-in-cheek, but there's a legion of silent readers out there who may not know that, many of whom I see on the ice every weekend. Yes, I know you're reading. You can stop playing dumb now. Leave a comment once in a while. Show me some blog love.
Back to this being an ass thing. I guess I'm just tired of self-censorship. It feels really good to be able to mockingly threaten tree hippies (okay, fine, environmental activists) or spew impossible thoughts about how the entire clothing industry should cater to me at the inconvenience of couch potato shaped people everywhere. Hell, it feels really good to say "couch potato shaped people". It makes me grin, even though it may make others frown.
We'll see how this new liberated blogging thing goes. My guess is, some of you will laugh more, while others will balk in shock, maybe disgust, discuss my improper thoughts with other balkers, and decide I'm a terrible person. I'm a little interested in where the some/others split will fall. Perhaps I should install a blog poll.
Or maybe this experiment will be short-lived. Maybe this bout of blog feistiness will subside and I'll soon return to boring, politically correct, non-inflammatory, I-care-about-everyone's-feelings self-censorship.
I guess we'll see.
February 21, 2007 12:09 PM | Blog/Website
Comments
as a couch-potato-shaped tree-hugging hippy *and* a bad driver on the 280, not to mention a person with additional qualities that have pissed you off enough to inflame about them in your blog, though not possessing the qualities required to search your posts to list them, i'm inflamed and offended, as well as feisted!
i'm canceling my subscription and writing a nasty letter to the editor, dammit!
and i'll do it all while standing on your lawn!
Posted by: bubka^4 at February 21, 2007 02:14 PM
I was going to reply with, "Dood, I don't have a lawn," but then I realized that there is indeed a respectably sized patch of grass (with a tree, even!) just under my window that faces the street, which I guess qualifies it as a lawn. How cute, I have a lawn. Even better, I don't have to take care of it 'cause it's really the apartment owner's lawn. Perhaps I'll lie out there with a book when it gets warm again.
Or not. My (apartment owner's) lawn sports a good number of pesticide warning tags. Feel free to write that nasty letter while standing there, but be sure to take your shoes off if you come up for a visit when you're done.
Posted by: Viv at February 21, 2007 02:41 PM
Please, inflame away, it's good for the soul. Yours and ours.
Posted by: Mike at February 21, 2007 04:47 PM
And if people don't like it I can tell them you told me to. Woohoo.
Posted by: Viv at February 21, 2007 04:50 PM
I'm fully comfortable with that :)
Posted by: Mike at February 21, 2007 05:02 PM
Muhwahhahhah! I'm not alone with improper thoughts! Of course knowing you means I've known that. If you ever need fodder for enflaming the masses just ping me...
Posted by: Shadow at February 21, 2007 05:12 PM
Ooh, inflamement support. That is much appreciated.
Posted by: Viv at February 21, 2007 05:28 PM
BRING IT ON!!
Posted by: christy at February 21, 2007 06:49 PM
oooh, oooh, ooh! enflaming comments! in the words of Shadow herself, flame on! :-)
i have also been afraid that i've become more of an ass. or i've always been one and i'm just letting it out more. no thanks to House, btw, for bringing the word "moron" back into my daily vocabulary.
Posted by: cheddah j at February 22, 2007 12:26 PM
FLAME ON! I definitely have to work that into a post one of these days.
I find House inflaming. He makes me rarr, though I guess that means he's doing a good job.
Posted by: Viv at February 22, 2007 12:30 PM