Satire or No?
Posted on Sunday, 6 February 2005, 23:27In what is likely to be a short-lived fascination, I’ve been random blog-reading. Geesh, what dreck! [Pardon mine]. If it were only satire, it wouldn’t be so bad. I read one three times, hoping it was, but the woman apparently really is a mean-spirited, troglodytic, witch-hunting, sugar-coated hypocrite unable or unwilling to carry her beliefs out to their logical actions. I assume that she hasn’t only because I’m sure the Austin Amercian-Statesman would have reported, and the NY Times would picked up, the crimes against humanity this woman is clearly capable of in the name of a better America.
Twenty-one-year-old Christian girls in Nashville who use the words “do-gooder whore” really should remember there are years and years and years and years left to live (or maybe not, but why live for that chance?) and you really should lighten up; you will don’t want to turn into that “do-gooder whore” from Austin. Do yourself and all of us a favor: now that you’re legal, put a nice stiff buzz on. Several times. It might change your outlook. We can only hope.
Once every seven years (or less), re-read your diaries, poems and letters with an eye for self-importance. If your writing lacks historical significance, the basis of a great novel, wit or original insight, toss it, unless you’re Virginia Wolff or Tim Burton or the like. I’ve purged everything at least three times. Even this dreck will eventually disappear.
Unless, of course, in some sci-fi scenario, all these blogs get synthesized into some massive AI, which should eventually self-destruct at the inanity. Google’s probably working on the AI now.
Blog on.
But change your template! Geez, if you can’t aspire to original thought, aspire to original design. Or at least derivative. Even derivative wants to be different. A little HTML never hurt anyone, save a headache ot two.
