You know... I've been busy with school, and so I still haven't even gotten around to posting my Romania/Austria Pictures (which are coming soon)... and I was starting to think about stopping this silly enterprise. I mean, who really needs my ironic bullshit, random story-telling, and pictures of people that only I know?
Then I was scrolling through other blogs, as I do on occassion, and stumbled upon this little gem of a blog that is titled ....
"REDEFINING DOMESTICITY: You Gotta Fake It Till You Make It"
This blog is filled with a variety of pink hues, digitized virtual kitten widgets, and thousands of baby pictures... so I'm not sure exactly what is being redefined, nor what is being faked, but I fear asking too many questions of this blog lest it lash out at me in crazed pastel inanities.
Now I know that this may seem mean-spirited and petty, my teasing this housefrau whom I have never met and seems to mean no one any harm, but the truth is far more complicated that that. Yes, I am at some level critiquing her and her blog, but much more importantly she reminds me why I need to keep writing my blog... because we must have all the voices of a culture represented, and they should not be in their own little cliques, but rather they should be rubbing right up against each other, making heat and energy....
We need integration, conflict, learning, disagreements, friction... and in this spirit I want to publicly thank the Fix's for adding me to their Friends and Family list, which is a great step in allowing different worlds to mingle and mix, and hopefully grow in the process.
So... in conclusion, I also want to thank Jenny, for reminding me why I continue to write this blog.
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Right on. Let the madness of others' blogs spur you on to greatness in yours.
Its worth exploring her blog a little more, if you have the time:
http://jennyerikson.blogspot.com/
The posting about her husband buying her a brand new car is a cultural artifact par exellence of the destructive power of Car Culture in America.
Actually, I just looked it up, and I saw the post about the Yukon her husband bought her. Contrary to what you said in your post, I think this woman does wish us harm, all of us. Anyone with even a tiny bit of common sense will only be in her way. I wish she would move to Liberty City so I could run her over in my stolen car.
hahaha.... its true, its true. My project is essentially a diplomatic one, but that woman is scary, and would be a vehicular manslaughter statistic in my GTA game as well. It would be poetic justice....
Let's just hope she's not a regular "ibellum" reader. I just figured out that she's tangentially connected to you through another blog. To anyone who mights see this, I just meant I'd run her over in a video game, not in real life. I don't even drive, I swear!
hahaha... that's right. She is tangentially connected (aren't we all), and she very well might read this now that I'm on the Fix blog... that's the point of this posting, to start cross-cultural pollination of ideas and slanders.
In your case, you threatened her life... but you know, I'm sure she'll be okay with it. She seems like a rational and even-keeled person.
OOH, I love it: blogodrama.
Anybody who sings the praises of a Yukon and Target is a dynosaur. Anyone who does it in the same essay should be shot (by a fake gun on a video game).
I'm going there now, can't wait to read her musings.
it would make my LIFE if she read this and started some sort of blog drama with me... that is what these blogs should be... not passive documents, but fully breathing forums of discussion and critique!
i think that it is interesting that you said life as opposed to day... i wonder if it signifies that you are ready for commitment... no fly by night operator on a shoestring budget is Mr. bell.
i say, write that woman a poem and let her know she is a flower in bloom. conversely, you could also serenade her with your shotgun.
Berto -- again, my apologies for somehow neglecting you on our friends and family sidebar. You are most definitely a friend who is almost like family.
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