an open letter to my readers…if there are any
dear reader,
i have a confession — i love comments. leave me comments, please. don’t just check the latest entries and then click away to another, possibly more enticing blog. leave me a comment! i beg of you! any comment will do! it will make my day!
back to our regularly scheduled programming….
3 responses so far
Dear Almost Right Word — I almost commented yesterday and then thought you’d think “Oh, how presumptuous!” or, worse, “Lordy, first she gets all over the un’s comments and now she’s showing up on mine!” (and you may indeed think these things, but when you say “leave me a comment! i beg of you! any comment will do!” well, you have only yourself to blame because you left the door wide open to it, you know? and the only really fair way to get back is to go over to my blog and leave comments on it!)
What I was going to comment on yesterday, is, yes, dooce has a very nice blog. Yes, we appreciate her wry open-ness about her life (and are grateful not to be related to her, actually). But you also have a very nice blog. You have an awesome title for it, and the image at the top? Very cool. And you are posting regularly with an interesting assortment of things almost all of which I think are appealing and cool. So I think instead of trying to be like dooce, you should be like you. Because it’s YOUR blog and I would much rather live in an internet full of people who are themselves than an internet of people trying to be dooce, and I know that isn’t what you were saying yesterday, I just think that experiencing the broad range of things that blogging can be helps you understand that you should write the blog that you find satisfying and rewarding to write.
Did that sound patronizing? I REALLY don’t mean it in a patronizing way. Just that there are a handful of bloggers who have figured out how to make money by writing things a million people want to read (and about half those people will leave nasty and judgmental comments, dooce publishes the funniest of hers quarterly or so and the first time I read them I realized I shall never have skin so thick!) and a whole lot of other bloggers have figured out how to make blogging a socializing thing and often its more linkage and less writing. I blog for conversation with thoughtful people and because I don’t know what I think until I write it very often and because I sometimes write the thing I need to read. And, for the record, the unreliable is one of my favoritest blogs, the blog that made me realize I needed to blog regularly.
So keep up the lovely blogging (and one more piece of unsolicited advice: if you want comments sometimes the way to get them is to comment on blogs that are similar to your own).
Affectionately,
Oleoptene
[takes time from grading papers to comment]
[then realizes has nothing remotely worthwhile to say]
[except she thinks oleoptene is brilliantly right of course]
[and, um, that she also really really likes pasta--but in her case angel hair/cappellini]
[oh, and 2 years ago for his sobriety birthday, she gave the brujo a copy of "dry"]
[my favorite part actually is when he's in the...wait, didn't I already blog this?! hang on a second....]
[I did! oh yay, then I can just link you to my favorite Augusten passage--though I also found the ending pretty devastating;]
http://theunreliablenarrator.net/2006/08/01/augusten-burroughs-dry
[bye for now! and lots of hearts....]
[first of all]
angel hair/cappellini is quite nice
i loved reading the ‘dry’ passaged you blogged about
and thank you for taking the time from grading papers to comment…
you two are some of my favorite readers….and commentors….