Somebody asked an interesting question in the comments and I want to put my response in a separate post:
I’d appreciate it if you read my post instead of ordering me to a doctor…is that how you respond to any person who has view different from yours?
My readers have to prove their mettle to me by dealing with my very direct and aggressive style of communication at first. Once they do that, I become the mostly cuddly, supportive, loving blogger they will ever meet. Of course, those who can’t take the heat will find that first stage of dealing with me somewhat uncomfortable.
I do this to ensure that the style of communication on this blog never transforms into the cloyingly saccharine format I see on so many other blogs. My readers are all somewhat gruff and very honest people. My posts are often written with blood and tears but never with snot and saliva. OK, that is very tortured imagery but I’m too exhausted to come up with anything better.
In other news, I’m seriously considering adding a secret, password-protected page for this blog for reasons I can’t name here because they would have to go into the secret, password-protected page. This is the price of fame and notoriety, people. Now one can’t even say all she wants to say on one’s official blog.
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If you add this page, could one send you an email to be added? Will you announce that?
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Yes, I will inform the interested parties that they can join the secret circle. 🙂
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Can I be special too? Can I???
[jumps up and down for joy before realising I’m completely crap after having coffee this late at night, and that I’m just annoyingly hyper now] 🙂
Seriously, that person lost me with, “I’d appreciate it …”
How about … NO!
I know I’d appreciate it if other people wouldn’t try to guilt me into listening to their crap as if it were always serious and worthy of consideration …
WE ARE NOT ALWAYS SERIOUS PEOPLE HERE
YOU MAY NOT HAVE A VALID POINT
I MAY BE SLIGHTLY UP MYSELF AND DO NOT CARE
GET OVER IT
SEE A DOCTOR IF YOU NEED HELP WITH THAT
🙂 [Mr Bigglesworth-approved evil sneer]
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At this point, I welcome anything that doesn’t start with “you should.”
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I know how you feel. After my last (and I thought, perfectly innocuous) blog entry, I got a deranged email from someone who used to stalk me two years ago who thought my post was about him. It makes me want to jealously guard my own methods of mental hygiene (blogging) since some people can’t seem to understand who bloggers blog for, and think it’s all about them.
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Mr Bigglesworth only demands cuddles when he knows I’m sucking at ruling the world …
Otherwise, he lives in fear of what comes after Preparations A through G. 🙂
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This somehow reminds me of the story of a well-known author and journalist [I do not recall his name just now] who was invited to a White House lunch with President Dwight Eisenhower. The journalist declined, saying he must do so for secret reasons.
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For your sister… http://davidgendronenseignant.wordpress.com/
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Clarissa, I hope you don’t have to do that, because you would lose advertising income. I wish the Web could be totally free and safe for all, but of course that is naive.
If you do create a password, I hope you will send it to me. Thanks
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Trigger Warning: Soviet Style Supermarket
http://zyalt.livejournal.com/1135479.html
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Just from what I’ve seen so far you deserve the fame and notoriety. It’s unfortunate if there are some who don’t understand that being public should be respected
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