Thanks Matt M!
You check your blog 20 times per day to see if someone has posted a comment. No one does. You've been honing your writing skills for 25 years and yet you are unable to get a comment. Every day over and over, you scroll and peer at each posting. Like a watched pot that never boils, there is a 0 for every thing you have written. No one knows how much time you have put into your masterpeace blog. No one cares that you have agonized over each word and its evironmental impact on the planet. Every one is checking out the dunkin donuts blog or the blogs in other languages or the prepubescent cartoon new kids on the block Blog or the Burger King Blog. Finally one day Matt M leaves a comment: "Hi, who are you why did you post on our blog?" Initailly, you are hurt, deeply. You begin to develope complex scenarioes for revenge. You have every phone in Matt's home bugged because of your connection to the nsa and you give thanks every day for the patriot act which allows you to protect yourself against terrorists like Matt M. Soon, after several conferences with your panel of shrinks, you begin to see how you are over reacting. You realize that Matt M sincerely wants to know who you are and why you posted on his blog. You call on hidden reserves of confidence gained from meditating in caves in the Himmalayas for years at a time. You see your story of self persecution and have an epiphany which changes your very core. Now you are in the moment and you feel a deep sense of grattitude for Matt M. Thanks Matt M!
posted by Dij at 10:29 PM
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:-).Read your blog as a daily ritual. Um...have actually devoured all of it(am a compulive reader)...some times over.Just thought would desist from bombarding inane comments. Something on similar lines that warrants a read through -
http://consumercy.typepad.com/consumercy/2004/08/strongdeathwish.html
I posted a comment on your apenglishliterature blog because A) i could B) i felt i could contribute to the discussion C) the question interested me D) Death of a Salesman is a brilliant play E) Arthur Miller was a close personal friend of mine F) The previous comments failed to step out of the jail and look from the outside in. Tell MattM i know his password, (there's an old program called predator which gives me access).
I am glad you have a sense of humor. I was not sure. Interesting that this discourse began with me responding to a question regarding generational conflict.
Anshula, thanks for the compliments, you are very sweet. I must confess that I actually don't spend all day crafting my posts. Much of what I am saying is in jest, satirizing my self as a kind of mental yoga. I checked out that link and it is fairly interesting - i will reread it.
I am actually pretty new to blog world and am unfamiliar with protocal - Mattm, MikeL,AdumbA and was not aware that i might piss you guys off. MikeL I liked your answer to #8, you get an A+ for that one.
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