[Vision2020] Lurking and blogging

[Tom Hansen]

I agree, Joan.

 

Some of us were born with backbones and are not afraid to use them.  Others
use weblogs.

 

Some of us have developed a strong sense of maturity, responsibility, and
conviction.  Others use weblogs.

 

Some of us are not afraid to confront adversity face to face.  Others use
weblogs.

 

Some of us strongly believe in a free and open dialogue to discuss our
differences.  Others use weblogs.

 

I don't believe in weblogs to air my grievances any more than I believed in
playing "Ding-Dong Ditch It" when I was.  Perhaps it is because I have
matured beyond the days of Hide-and-Seek.  When people want to contact me,
they know where I can be found.

 

Airing your "opinions" behind the door of a weblog does not reflect maturity
any more than does filing a complaint anonymously.

 

Take care and keep your powder dry,

 

Tom "I am" Hansen

 

We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are
dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all
exist very nicely in the same box. 

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From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Joan Opyr
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 1:43 PM
To: Vision2020 Moscow
Subject: [Vision2020] Lurking and blogging

 

Dear Visionaries, 

 

Many of you have emailed me privately to let me know that the graphoholic,
self-proclaimed Libertarian Reformed Christian (and thus oxymoronic)
Dougsciple, Dale Courteney, not only continues to lurk on this list like
Jethro Tull's Aqualung, but that he posts his responses to our public
conversation with lightening speed to his safe, sheltered,
obsessive-compulsive blog.  Thank you for letting me know, and for
suggesting that I ought to check out said blog to see what Dale has to say
about me, but I really must decline.  In a few weeks time, I'll be paying a
brief visit to one of my favorite cities, Washington, D.C.  There, I am
bound to hear countless equally valid assessments of my mental health and
value to society from our nation's genuine Aqualungs, dirty old men sitting
on park benches, reeking of urine and offering to pray for me if only I'll
give them my spare change.  I feel sorry for these men, I do give them my
change, and I listen to them for as long as I can.  This I consider a
mitzvah, a blessing.

 

But reading Dale's blog is not a mitzvah: it's masochism.  There's something
parasitic about lurking on Vision 2020, as Dale and Doug and others do, and
then maniacally posting your clandestine responses to what is, in truth, the
grown man's version of the 13 year-old girl's diary, the weblog.  I don't
mind lurking; lurk away.  But lurking and then blogging is pathetic.  By
such cowardice, Dale and company render themselves nothing more than
mistletoe sucking on an oak tree.  Back where I come from, we knock that
crap out of the branches with a long stick; then, come December, we sell it
for a buck a sprig at the flea market.

 

This year, I'm giving my mistletoe profits to as many Aqualungs as I manage
to meet on the benches and heating grates of the Washington Mall.  Next
year, who knows -- I think it'll be a toss up between Planned Parenthood and
Spokane's "Beans, and Rice, and Jesus Christ."

 

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment     

 

 

Auntie Establishment
Serving Idaho's liberal elite since 1993


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