Monday, May 2, 2011

Of blogs and blogging. And blogginess. BLOG BLOG BLOG. Whatever.

There are people I follow in Twitter and people whose blogs I read, and more times than I care to count, those two don't overlap.  I'm not sure why - I mean, if you are killing me with the awesome on your blog, why wouldn't I want a moment by moment account of your life?  Similarly, if you can captivate my attention in 140 characters, why am I not delighting in many more of your delicious bon mots?

And then I feel like a jackass because it's been a month and I haven't put it together and that person is following me on both.  If you've noticed that I'm following you on only one or the other, believe me, it's not you. It's totally me.

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Speaking of the Twitter, I sometimes go on unfollow binges for no real reason.  Just suddenly I'll think, "That's too much use of the word Brobdingnagian, loser.  YOU ARE UNFOLLOWED."  Douchey, or do you do it, too? It's like Twitter has shortened my already minuscule ability to tolerate people's foibles. [You are well within your rights to unfollow me for using the word foible.] 

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As being only tangentially related to blogs, in that she has become my nemesis through blogging, I finally watched the Glee episode with You Know Who.  And I'm sorry, but was she calling me out with her "Everybody tries to tear other people down" bullshit? Because here's the sitch, missy: If you hold yourself out as an expert in, oh, say, LIFE, then you will get backlash. 

You cannot act as if you are the be-all end-all of all things fabulous and not expect people to say, "Hey, Stick, hold up a minute. Your ideas are pretty shitty."

Also, you cannot act. That scene at the end of the episode, where she and Shuster break up? I've seen more realistic tears on Telemundo Telenovellas.

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I'm planning on rolling out my Etsy store for cross stitches.  Interest? Please say yes. 

Also, better to have product or custom make product?  This is market research, people, tell the truth.     Also, pricing? Please don't say free or $1.  My ego cannot take that kind of abuse. If you have an Etsy store or sell merchandise and want to give me advice, I would love you long time.

I have no idea how to remove this awkward highlighting because I suck at the technical aspects of blogging.
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So many people complain about getting spam comments on their blogs. I get a few, but not many.  This should make me happy, but instead I think, "What the fuck is wrong with my blog, spammers?  Not good enough for your discount pharmaceuticals and underage pornography?"

I may need medication.

30 comments:

  1. The spammers wisely cower in fear when they see your razor wit.

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  2. I don't get Twitter. I Tweet the odd post when I think of it... and the odd riduculous thing a kid has said so that I don't forget it.. but I cannot get into it... When I get that little email that 'so and so is now following you on Twitter!" I think... why the fuck would anyone do THAT?

    Anyhoo. I used to Cross stitch. LOVED it. Put it aside when I had kids... will pick it up again at some point.

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  3. I completely appreciate your technical shortcomings on blogging and your inability to remove said purple highlighter has plastered a smile on my face!

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  4. I think the highlighting is pretty. Embrace it.

    Twitter. The "numbers game" baffles me. I am not a "follow back" person by any means. Not douchery.

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  5. I'll probably be unfollowed for admitting this, but I unfollowed anyone who used the words 'He Is Risen' or who quoted bible text on their blog or twitter over easter. I don't have time for other people's magical thinking. I barely have time for your own.

    I would DEFINITELY buy your cross stitch, but only if it is of Charlie Sheen and Osama Bin Laden sitting in a boat, holding the severed head of a certain blonde actress who thinks she KNOWS things, with bible quotes and kittens in baskets.

    Too much? Or, just enough?

    And I would pay a good amount of my hard borrowed money for art like that.

    Sarah xxx

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  6. And by 'your own' I meant 'my own'.

    Or did I??

    Yes, I did.

    xxx

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  7. I am more technologically retarded than anyone I know, so don't feel too bad. If it's not a simple plug-in, I'm completely lost!

    As far as Twitter goes, I've only unfollowed one person, I think, and that was because they tweeted trite little sayings like every ten minutes - nothing original, just quotes. Oh, and Marc Maron. I was tired of hearing about his EVERY COFFEE ORDER!

    Stay cool.

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  8. I used to be spam envious, too. I'd wonder why my blog wasn't good enough for spam. You know what you need to do? Move to Wordpress. You'll get more spam than you can shake a stick at!

    Lately my spam has been praising the high quality of my blog and my posts. So what if it's written in poor English and if the link provided is to, like, a sex website? In the Ukraine? I'm still flattered.

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  9. I don't get ANY spam.

    I'm a failure

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  10. Pitch envy?

    Not being able to remove highlighted sections on your post?

    Quit flirting with me.

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  11. When I got my "Gruppensexfilme" spam I knew I had made it as a blogger. I felt so validated!

    I don't care what you charge for your awesome cross stitchings....I need one!

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  12. Oh! I got a good spam not too long ago on my post about POOP: "it is as broad as it is long."

    Practically fortune cookie material, right? I don't think the spammer was talking about POOP, but it was so simpatico it made me warm and fuzzy.

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  13. I find it very interesting that blogging and twitter peeps don't overlap much for you. It's like you're maintaining 2 separate social media existences.

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  14. The first post I added a picture I think it took me an hour to get it to where I wanted and still cant figure out so much stuff. the purple highlighted text...so me :)

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  15. I don't get spam. Now I will have the lovely Monty Python song "Spam" in my head all day!

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  16. Every time I see her and her elbow looking face, I think of you and laugh!

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  17. You crack me up. You really do. I would really like the courage to go on unfollow binges. As it is, I'm just a super cautious follower. Twitter gives me the heebies jeebies.

    I don't get interesting spam either. That post from Liz at Belle Bean Dog and her awesome spam awards make me feel like such shit. :)

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  18. I'm with you on the spam - hey, comments are comments. I'm sure I leave comments that are at least as carefully nondescript or as completely incomprehensible as spam. I totally didn't get that about GP on Glee -- you must have felt like she was talking RIGHT TO YOU. And one of my blog friends finally sent me a tutorial on how to embed links because it was too painful for her to keep watching me doing it WRONG.

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  19. Is Stick on Twitter? That would totally let you take your hatred to the next level.

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  20. I'm sure the spammers love you! Instead of leaving spam comments on my blog, the porn sites have actually started showing up as "referring sites", so when I click on the seemingly wholesome site to see what new blogger has come by to read my rantings and ravings, I'm submerged in a world of penises and close up shots of female genetalia.

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  21. I think there needs to be a "follow all" button where I could follow someone's blog and twitter and facebook all with one click. Now, that would be helpful.

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  22. Spam comes to me in waves. I'll go days/weeks with only the obvious (links to porn sites, though I have certain friends/regular commenters who regularly supply me with porn links), and then I'll get 10 spam comments in the same day that are so clever that I'm tempted to click the link (which, in turn, usually takes me to a porn site).

    As Trekkie Monster is wont to tell us, the Internet is for porn.

    And I don't understand the mass hysteria over being unfollowed on Twitter . . . unless I've sat down and talked to you, face-to-face, over drinks, it's no big thing.

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  23. I go on twitter unfollow binges too- but just with my twitter hockey account when either of these happen:
    1. someone retweets every faulking thing someone else has said- I mean COME ON are you so lacking in imagination you can't come up with 140 characters of your own?

    2. When they say bad things or exhibit continual bias and prejudice against my Wings.

    But you know what? apparently people can tell when you unfollow them, because I got called out! so humiliating.

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  24. I don't know how to tell if you follow my blog and I don't pay enough attention to Twitter to know if you follow me there. But I'll assume you crazily stalk me in both.

    Because that's what I always assume.

    (That's the healthy way to live.)

    (Maybe.)

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  25. dear god is it possible to be funny all the time...yes, yes it is...SEE HERE!!!!

    and that quip about you.know.who...genius!

    I know you follow me and I'm ok with it, stalk me all you want...I'm gonna turn around and hug you one of these days. ;)

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  26. twitter annoys me. i only use to it promote my writing to the people who don't follow my blog. spammers are annoying too. every time i think i have a new follower on twitter (yes, i care, i'm vain), i get all excited only to realize it's a company trying to sell me something.

    for the record - wherever you go, i will follow.

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  27. YOUR BLOG IS VERY NICE. I THINK YOU SHOULD BY VIAGRA AND CIALIS VERY CHEAP HERE. HTTP://WWWW.DONTCLICKHERE.COM

    You're welcome.

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  28. I think you should list items and take custom orders in your Etsy shop.

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  29. I'm pickier about who I follow on Twitter than blogging for some reason. I guess because more people putnthought into their blog posts and good tweets are hard to come by.

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  30. How is it that NO ONE mentioned your Brobdingnagian rant?

    I think it's completely legitimate to unfollow someone who busts that adjective out (isn't once too much?) on Twitter.

    I mean, come on! You only get 140 characters.

    And Lilliputian wastes fewer.

    Duh.

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