December 16, 2005

THE STATE OF THE 'SPHERE

I don't want to piss on anyone's parade, but I've been having the sinking feeling, for some time now, that the vaunted Blogosphere is a sickly puppy, the runt of the litter with rickets, and scabies.

Hear me out: when the World was relatively small, there was much interaction. Give, take, everyone knew everyone. Maybe didn't like everyone, but knew them. Now there are Pajama parties with huge fucking budgets, one is In or Out, it is a fucking abortion of a thing.

All of this, I think, is driven by two things: number one: some people think there is money to be made here. Okay. Maybe for a few lucky enough to have enough traffic to generate ad monies. Have at it, folks.

Number two: many bloggers tend to forget they are amateurs. A little traffic, we are Dickens. Bullshit. We are fucking amateurs. This is the minor leagues. Worse. Pony League. No salaries at all here.

The comraderie is nice, but with comraderie comes acceptance of faults.

Let me cut to the chase: I am tired of reading sorry-assed bullshit blogs. Most of you people suck! Your writing is quotidian, your topics banal, your worldview retarded. Rob was right about den Beste being right. Quit forcing your God damned garbage down my throat. If you want to post and engage me? Cool. Fuck your recipes. I have many, most better. Quizzes? Shove them up your ass. Pet pictures? I want to see a Korean chef preparing them.

Quit fucking boring me people.

Now, you Kool Kids know I don't mean You. It's those other assholes. You know you're In The Club, because you got my e-mail.

Just kidding. My site is the fucking worst piece of junk out there. I am embarrassed to visit it. Have to do a shot of tequila just to visit the comments. I am a major part of The Problem.

The Blogosphere is a right wing melt down. It blows manatees. Pretty much tired of being in the bush leagues, knowing I ain't getting the nod from Tommy Lasorda.

Sorry my site has sucked so bad. REALLY REALLY sorry yours has.

Posted by Velociman at December 16, 2005 10:59 PM
Comments

I hear you. Lately I only post to justify my broadband costs. Let's all boycott the blogosphere, like Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue boycotting Aruba. No posts until we have something to say. Yeh.

Posted by: rankin' rob at December 16, 2005 11:03 PM

Cut me some slack, dude!

One-handed here...

Oh...but the good stuff is over on Moxie these days.

She's working the PJ folks over but good, and they can't take the heat.

LMAO!

And you, well...you never disappoint.

Posted by: jmflynny at December 16, 2005 11:24 PM

Dude, there's an empty bed waiting for you, Rob kept it warm.

Sure, we suck. Everything sucks, where the fuck have you BEEN? are you just NOTICING? Bueller? Bueller?

Posted by: og at December 16, 2005 11:34 PM

stop on by anytime. ;)

Posted by: og at December 17, 2005 12:07 AM

By the way, Flynny has the Big Pass. She has never posted crap. She is one of my Great Friends. Like Og was, until he chose to fuck with me. Dude.

Posted by: Velociman at December 17, 2005 1:06 AM

Who is Og anyway?

Hmm. I've been sucking lately as well, but it seems that my traffic seldom differs whether its a "good" or "bad" blogging day. So I just don't much care about that any longer.

Hopefully, some life will pop into me one of these days. That's generally a good thing.

Posted by: sadie at December 17, 2005 5:15 AM

Merry fucking Christmas to you too, pappy.

If all our blogs suck, what's it take to get a swallow around here? ;P

Posted by: Cythen at December 17, 2005 5:47 AM

True enough.
The one's which seem to humor me the most, are the brand new sites with the lame ass google ads in the side bar of their cookie cutter blogspot site.
Like they're even read.

Posted by: Dick at December 17, 2005 10:13 AM

Jeez, after an ass-pounding like that, you'd think we'd at least get a reacharound...

Posted by: El Capitan at December 17, 2005 10:44 AM

Oh I wanna be a Kool Kid so bad! Who do I have to fuck to be one?

Posted by: livey at December 17, 2005 10:56 AM

Ya know V-Man, you can build a hundred bridges and no one will call you a bridge builder.

But if you suck one little dick...

Posted by: Richthofen at December 17, 2005 11:00 AM

"Oh I wanna be a Kool Kid so bad! Who do I have to fuck to be one?"

You know, Livey, I was once accused of being too flirtatious within comments, but nothing that I ever said ccmpares to what you just typed.

Those statements necessarily imply that all "Kool Kids" fucked their way to their friendships, and I'm sorry, but that is absolute crap. Chill the fuck out and stop trying so goddamn hard to impress.

Posted by: sadie at December 17, 2005 12:29 PM

Wait...I didn't have to fuck anyone to become a Kool Kid? I feel so dirty now...

Posted by: zonker at December 17, 2005 1:25 PM

... bite me, Kim..

Posted by: Eric at December 17, 2005 1:59 PM

Well I'm sorry I offended you sadie, that was not what I meant at all. It was a joke. Apparently we don't share the same sense of humor.

Posted by: livey at December 17, 2005 6:48 PM

Lest anyone get the wrong idea, Og is Vmans brutha from a nutha mutha. So when he comes out with this kind of thing, we have to (good naturedly, of course) verbally slap him around a bit. S'why I suggested Rehab, because he'd have to be on drugs to think his blog sucks. Sorry if the sarcasm didn't come across well.

Posted by: og at December 17, 2005 6:56 PM

Haha. I happen to have a great sense of humour and am not easily offended by any means. Just ask anyone who's met me.

Someone really had to say that. It might as well be me, so I said it. This is not an uncommon perception, and I am one who doesn't believe in hush-hush talking behind people's backs. I just thought you needed to know.

Posted by: sadie at December 17, 2005 7:15 PM

Oh so this " not uncommon perception" means people have talked about me right? I may not be as smart as the "Kool Kids" so I just want to be very clear here what you are saying.

Obviously you don't know me, even if you read my blog. I don't give a rats ass what people think about me. I don't blog to impress anyone.
There was a time in my life when I was insecure enough to try to impress people, but I've matured now.

I'm sorry that your perception was different from my intent. If you would like to continue this, feel free email me.

Posted by: livey at December 17, 2005 7:39 PM

There really aren't any Kool Kids. I just made that up to lessen the blow. Zonk? Sorry you let somebody have their way with you in an effort to "fit in". Unfortunately, you are still not a Kool Kid. Just a porked one.

Posted by: Velociman at December 17, 2005 9:42 PM

Goddam. Who pissed on Sadie's corn flakes?

Posted by: Acidman at December 17, 2005 10:29 PM

People who live in glass houses, should not throw rocks, Cat

Posted by: Catfish at December 17, 2005 10:50 PM

Oh, well.

I'll be sure to take all my quizzes and recipes down. But I'll fuck a Korean chef while he's preparing my pets before the pet pictures go anywhere.

Posted by: liv at December 17, 2005 11:34 PM

It's my blog that made you write this, isn't it? ISN'T IT???
/paranoia

Posted by: Chablis at December 18, 2005 12:42 AM

Hmmm. As something of an interloper here, I'd very much like to add something positive, particularly as, for some bizarre reason, I feel compelled to comment. Most likely I'll come to regret that later.

Perhaps the best I can do, after circulating around some, is validate many of you by agreeing that, yes, indeed, most do appear to suck - badly. That's unfortunate, in that, sucking "well" is actually an artform to be most appreciated. Perhaps I've simply dropped in on a bad day.

Now, fucking well, that's another matter entirely. And it is extremely difficult, though admittedly possible, at least in my per view, for a woman to do that poorly. And what with my experience in having been fucked by men being limited to some small amount of experience with being fucked, as it were, by hairless-balled wonders on the Internet, usually easily dispatched, or, dislodged, I might add simply to preserve the metaphor, I'll withhold comments in that particular context. But I digress.

In closing, please permit me to address the "Kool aide Kid" issue, if I might. I think it a wonderful thing to ascribe such pet names and special privileges to those of our gender of sexual preference who choose to suck, and/or fuck us well, and perhaps, sometimes, even poorly.

But, then, I'm simply a dick with a fuck me or go fuck yourself attitude who happened to click / stumble on by. So, hopefully, few, if any, will pay my comments anymore attention than a nevermind.


Posted by: Dan at December 18, 2005 3:21 AM

My, Goodness! Houston, we have ignition!

All this huffnpuff seems to point back to something we called, back in The Age of Dinosaurs, "relevance".

Some years ago I decided that I don't freaking care if I'm "relevant" or not.

So. I post to please myself. If you wander by, and like it, fine. If you don't like it, that's fine too.

V-man, you and a few others pass one of two tests that OWW uses to determine your worthiness. First is the writing good enough? Second is there amusement here?

You pass at least one test.

Guess which.... Ò¿Ö

Keep on keepin' on....WARD

Posted by: Old Wierd Ward at December 18, 2005 6:59 AM

Ward, don't you think you're being a little too hard on the beaver?

Posted by: og at December 18, 2005 10:37 AM

Sh*t! I'm too old to be a Kool Kid. Does this mean my nine regular readers are never going to make me rich and famous?

Posted by: Libby at December 18, 2005 11:32 AM

Dang, dude. Don't sugar coat it. Tell us how you really feel!
Thanks for the reality check.

Posted by: Locomotive Breath 1901 at December 18, 2005 1:11 PM

My recipes rock. Who else has a recipe for a hog on a stick?

Posted by: Steve H. at December 18, 2005 2:57 PM

Damn, you're right, I don't know anyone anymore.

Posted by: Sgt Hook at December 18, 2005 5:38 PM

Og - I actually met Jerry Mathers once - I was about 25 and living in California at the time. In spite of a fairly ferocious hangover, I let him live, because he asked me, after we were introduced, if I caught a certain amount of flak because of my name.

So, the short answer to your question is: that's a very old, and very tired play on words.

Still sorta funny, but old.

Posted by: Old Wierd Ward at December 18, 2005 7:14 PM

I dunno, I rather admire og's juxtaposition of 'hard on' and 'beaver', though I have rarely attempted to ward off the latter.

Posted by: Bane at December 18, 2005 10:29 PM

i am never in want of physchotics.

ahhhhh....its good to feel normal.

Posted by: bedamned at December 19, 2005 8:41 AM

It's actually an actual quote from the show. Babs Billingsly in her pearls and apron says that to Ward. I just saw 'ward" and couldn't help myself.

Posted by: og at December 19, 2005 12:02 PM

Is being a Kool-Aid kid, the same as being a Diva? If so, I am very glad not to know any, Cat

Posted by: Catfish at December 19, 2005 5:51 PM

Recipes? Quizzes? Pet pictures?
Almost as bad as all that bullshit "What actor/writer/muppet/pud-pounder bullshit...

Oh wait. I didn't see the 'Rasputin' thing.

Bwah!

Posted by: Dave S. at December 20, 2005 4:15 PM

Dude,

Comments and interaction seem dead all over the blogosphere except here. You got the mojo. You're right though, everyone else thinks there's a profit to be made. Doing the COTC this time, looks like a LOT of blogs are just advertisements for small companies. Nothing wrong with that, just not what I've ever been about.

You neither.

Posted by: sama at December 20, 2005 4:23 PM

I've always sucked. So?

Posted by: James Hooker at December 20, 2005 5:46 PM

"Oh I wanna be a Kool Kid so bad! Who do I have to fuck to be one?"

Livey - The line forms to the right.

I suck, you suck, we all suck, for I suck.....

How about starting a Suckass Blogger's Webring?

Posted by: Mark at December 20, 2005 8:39 PM

Well isn't that an interesting coincidence. I was *this close* to burning my sorry-ass blog to the ground two days ago.

Must be the phase of the moon or something...

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