Sunday, March 02, 2008

The Rebel Force..

Never to miss a social event, I had a great time last night, mad night all in all, not least of all was the Coke overdose (i.e. satanic capitalists, not Katie French) that had me shaking, hyper, palpitations, distracted and generally fucked and awake til near 8am. I also capped off the night in the best way possible in a chat with the elusive Tib - jealous Idiot?

But apart from all this, I'm fighting the corner of the people, i.e me, who's happy with the blog the way it is, the purpose of it's design, a community for the community; a means for said community to rant and expresses themselves in anonymity if they so chose. Why all of a sudden has our main objective become to entertain others and not ourselves. I don't need gratification in the recognition of others. It's all about the insiders for me.

I know the majority want to spread out to farther fields of public expression but spare a thought for the newbies who are not ready to take the same step. Are we to be lambs to the slaughter to feed the ambitions of the greater whole?

Hubris took vengeance on our narcissism of late, but I'm not sure if the lesson had been learnt.

19 comments:

  1. Have I missed something? What are we being led into? Apart from flirting with an Outing?

    We should have an outing... something involving a bus...

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  2. yay bus. Ok I feel guilty ranting on. It was just a reaction to the fact that all everyone talks about is the award and how we have to put loads of effort in to get the award next year, and the fun is lost in what we used to have.

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  3. The outing was discussed but no group photo will apear from me.

    I have though decided myself actually a long time ago to not give a damn about anonimmmmmiiiityyy and as such am openly telling folk I write here, mainly because I am proud of this group and also cause I am proud my posts actually entertain you guys (weirdos).

    But if others want to remain anon that is their call, as you say milan some of us have been at this for years so dont really care anymore. The only plus I would say about been open about who you are could be that all those lurkers out there may start commenting like sinead below, this is what our community needs, placing a face on some of us may well just help that cause.

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  4. Oh don't worry Milan. I think we were looking for commenters long before the award was an issue, weren't we? I don't think anything's changed.

    Given that it's been 24 hours since The Award and just a couple weeks of fun lead up, I wouldn't get too stressed about 'all anyone talks about' - we'll all be talking shite about nothing again in no time. :)

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  5. Anyway, you're the comment-maniac here. Imagine the thrill of comments from new commenters - you could stop brining/threatening commentless posters in a desperate bid for interaction and recognition, you could have a whole new harim of your own worshippers and attention payers - mmm, comments!!

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  6. It's true. You put a good argument forward Jo (and not just because I want your pornalicious boots).

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  7. Must have missed something here. On the the anonymous front, I would have no problem outing myself to the bloggers here individually, but I do not wish to actually blog openly as myself...if that makes sense.

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  8. Milan, yes, Jo has rockin boobs. It was a bit of a boob show, wasn't it? Jo, Midge, Mrs Shan... (I don't think I went cleavage, nor Aoife. And Ash just showed off her killer legs).

    I think more people will comment here cause we met so many last night who were so great. Last night? Whatever night.

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  9. My boobs were delighted to be at the blog awards.....and I'd gladly have a photo of them on the blog....but not my face!

    Jesus, back to therapy with me!

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  10. Perhaps your boobs could become our new emblem - instead of forninepounds we could be...

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  11. Polka/Jo/Midge - this seems to be a case of man hams part 2. If you look sgain I said boots and not boobs. You should know I would never draw attention to that other "b" word.

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  12. I know! But I know a woman who would ;) and I doubt she made amistake, either :)

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  13. Har de Ha Ha! Jo I know you are talking bout me....my boobs lack your fullness, it was just clever engineering on the behalf of my top!

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  14. Nope, I was talking about Polka, she's the one who started it. Hey Midge, you're so vain, I bet you think these boobs are about you...

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  15. Jo - that last one was a classic. But I demand you do a post with a picture of your lovely boots - yes that's 't' to make up for it.

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  16. An outing. With a bus. Agreed.

    I just think Milan we all got a sense of ourselves in the wider blog world on Saturday night and liked it. I don't think any conscious thing needs to be done. That is a beautiful group shot of us all though.

    As for boobs you all know my feeling on them. Boots too :)

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  17. Pretty much. Thank god for underwiring.

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