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A lot of wonderful people have written me about the last post, and I thank you all.
I’ve made a decision to distance myself FROM the community.
I’m not going anywhere, and neither are you. Your links are simply being moved to a new section, away FROM anyone that can hurt my friends because of something I may say. And you certainly don’t need the pressure of “what is *that guy* doing here?” in your comments.
Continue reading “Not really a divorce, more like a separation”
Free association is described as a “psychonanalytic procedure in which a person is encouraged to give free rein to his or her thoughts and feelings, verbalizing whatever comes INTO the mind without monitoring its content.”
There are no right or wrong answers. Don’t LIMIT yourself to one word responses or try to evaluate them, just say everything that pops INTO your head.
Wanna play?
Diz is back in town… and she’s come bearing gifts. She figures I need cheering up, and CyberTown is in desperate need of a few laughs…
For those who don’t hang on to every word I say, and commit it to memory (most likely for a future legal action, you dirty bums!), she is of course, referring to this post.
Continue reading “Don’t make me like you.”
People, you gotta love ’em.
With all the Susan Sarandon/Tim Robbins bashing going on, I was on Mykeru.Com, where he brings up an article about 9/11… and oh lookie… Susan Sarandon cooking for the rescue workers, and Tim Robbins rounding up steel-toe boots for the crews at Ground Zero.
Yeah, they are sooooo damn un-American, aren’t they?
No one remembers that, they just want to remember how outspoken they’ve been on the war lately. Blacklisted FROM certain events for it.
Continue reading “How quickly they forget…”
Hey kiddies, it’s time for the Saturday Scruples!
To be honest, these “day of the week/questionnaire” things aren’t my bag, I usually enjoy going around reading the answers… Daphne always puts some good thoughts INTO these.
I also like to see people’s hypocrisy and laugh:
“OH BULLSHIT! You know damn well you would trample a wheelchair-bound midget with downs syndrome to get out of a flaming building if you had to… and you KNOW IT!!!”
Hypothetical questions are great that way.
Of course everyone KNOWS I would help that poor person get to safety at the risk of my own demise, RIGHT??? I mean it would be a waste to not have the little gimp to kick around and ridicule later.
(Note to self: Daphne’s not going to let me play anymore after that one. Watch. :0)
Continue reading “Saturday Scroopules”
Man… if I had one of those “I’m feeling…” buttons on my site, it would probably say “cheap & used” right now.
How are you supposed to feel when you make amends with someone, you write nice stuff about them, they write nice stuff about you (well, more like USE YOU as a cheap tool to keep people FROM dropping out their project like flies in a mass exodus…) have these hundreds of people come here overnight to read my post…
….and then they read the next one, which looks like a “pig party”, and makes them look like a REAL asshole?
Would YOU remove all that nice stuff that you wrote about ME, and declare it a “useless rant”?????
*sigh* THE TRUTH: It’s not for everyone, y’know.
Yes… ignore me now. I’ll go away.
*SNORT* Oh Yeah, like *THAT’S* ever worked before!
Continue reading “Bored Stupid”
So, how about them Yankees?
You’re not expecting me to talk about the shit hitting the fan tonight, are you?
Hey, I just made my peace. And I gave my word I was staying out of it.
On second thought… FUCK IT! I’m hearing a lot of lies and PR damage-control at Blogshares, and I’m sick of it.
Here is a copy of the page where my friends and I are CRUCIFIED at Blogshares. (I suspected my comment was going to be deleted, so I saved the page.) Maria was run off the web, because of me. She defended a friend, and he sicced trolls on all of us.
Sayed has no control over over the trolls??? BULLSHIT!
He has my name in big-ass letters, my URL on it and singles out every one commenting on my site as “nazis” and “doting supporters”. One of them was Maria, who didn’t agree with my remark, but said my frustration with the game “echoed her sentiment too”.
The very first response was one of his asshole friends suggesting “Perhaps blogs that link to him should suffer horrendous losses too.”
HEL-LOOOOO???????
Continue reading “*whistles*”
Yoo hoo… can we talk?
On a serious tip. No more wisecracks on the subject. I have to realize that I play to a more global crowd. Not everyone thinks I’m funny. In the world’s defense, a lot of Americans think I’m a mean-sprited asshole too.
What started this was a remark I passed in my comments. It was a “racial/ethnic” slur directed at Mr. Razavi. No semantics, no excuses… WHAT I SAID WAS WRONG. Simple as that.
I am very sorry for hurting you, Sayed. And I mean it. I am very sorry for anyone who was offended by the remark, too. It was crude and insensitive.
What followed after that was a chain reaction of disasters on both sides. Events that we have *BOTH* admitted publicly we could have handled better. Exacerbated by caring friends on both sides who wanted to defend us.
We both lost our cool. While we can’t erase the past… we can only move forward INTO the future.
As I planned to resurrect this site over the summer, I VOWED that this kind of stuff was not going to happen anymore.
I wanted to come back and be a POSITIVE force in the community. At a time where people are being polarized and torn apart over a war that affected the entire planet… I wanted to help bring the web community back together, torn apart FROM all the debate and harsh words, and I wanted to work with the same people with the same mindset.
Continue reading “Web Skirmishes 101”
Now someone actually *WORTH* talking about is Kat FROM My Single Mom Life. (found via Maria)
“This is not your typical cyber beggar site as I actually need real help. I’m not asking anyone to pay off my debt or buy me new boobs or a diamond engagement ring. I am asking for help while I get the necessary treatments and possible surgery for my back.”
A good friend has set up a site for her called HelpKat.Com.
She suffers FROM scoliosis. All she’s simply asking for is help FROM the community to keep her utilities and other bills afloat as she undergoes surgery on her spine (she’s in a lot of pain). She works as a waitress. She’s on her feet all day. She’s always carrying stuff. She’s always bending. This will be impossible for a while after the surgery.
She’s asking for our help. She’s a sweetheart and deserves our help. I’ve also known Kat long enough to know she’s a very proud single mom who’d rather continue to suffer than take a handout FROM strangers. So obviously her situation has gotten *very serious* for this site to have been made.
Money’s tight for a lot of people. I know that. But $5 here and there FROM a LOT of people can really add up, and make a big difference fast. Can you at least spread the word?
The First Episode of The Super Dudes
– “Incredible, Ain’t it?”Let’s face it. If you’re willing to run around town in tights, have incredible powers that you use only for good deeds, with no insurance or financial compensation, rather than knock off a bank or go on a killing spree:
1) You really need to get laid.
b) You’re out of your mind.
Let’s take the mythos of our beloved superheroes a step further and make them more real. The good and the bad. Here’s what I’ve come up with:
Continue reading “The Super Dudes”
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